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The company was founded in Toronto in 1977, with a location on Yonge Street. It was bought in 1978 by Malcolm and Roy Perlman. [4] For a period, Sunrise was considered one of the five major record store chains in Canada, alongside HMV Canada, Music World, Sam the Record Man, and A&A Records. However, by the 2000s, with the shift towards online ...
The mall is situated on the northwest corner of the Davis Drive West and Yonge Street intersection. The mall is owned and operated by Oxford Properties, one of the largest shopping centre development companies in Canada. It opened in 1974, at which time its layout was a north-south arrangement with two sunken sitting areas surrounded by brick ...
In October 2014, Putman acquired Sunrise Records and began opening new locations. [ 3 ] In February 2017, it was announced that Putman had acquired the lease agreements from HMV Canada after it fell into receivership , converting these premises into Sunrise Records stores, massively increasing the number of Sunrise Records locations from 10 to 70.
The flagship store on Yonge Street in Toronto closed on April 14, 2017. [97] In February 2017, Ontario-based chain Sunrise Records bought the leases of 70 of HMV Canada locations in an effort to convert into Sunrise Records locations, and invited 1,340 former HMV Canada employees to apply for 700 positions. HMV Canada's flagship location on ...
Until 1999, the Guinness Book of World Records repeated the popular misconception that Yonge Street was 1,896 km (1,178 mi) [4] long, making it the longest street in the world; this was due to a conflation of Yonge Street with the rest of Ontario's Highway 11. The street (including the Bradford-to-Barrie extension) is only 86 kilometres (53 mi ...
A&A Records at 351 Yonge Street in Toronto, circa 1975 The A&A flagship store in the early 1990s; A&A's main rival's flagship store can be seen right next door.. The company was founded at the end of World War II by Alice Kenner, her husband Mac, with the assistance of her brother, Aaron as A&A Bookstore after Alice and Aaron's first initials, at 351 Yonge Street in a building that had been ...
Aurora (2021 population: 62,057 [2]) is a town in central York Region in the Greater Toronto Area, within the Golden Horseshoe of Southern Ontario, Canada.It is located north of the City of Richmond Hill and is partially situated on the Oak Ridges Moraine.
[6] [4] In 1959, Sniderman's Music Hall moved to Yonge Street in order to compete with A&A Records, and was located in the basement of Yolle Furniture Store at 291–295 Yonge Street. [7] On Labour Day 1961, the new store moved north to its location at 347 Yonge Street, two doors down from A&A, where it became a Toronto landmark. [ 8 ]