{{Short description|Canadian department store chain}} {{redirect|Simpson's|the American TV series|The Simpsons|other uses}} {{Distinguish|text=Simpsons of Piccadilly in London}} {{Infobox company | name = The Robert Simpson Company Ltd. | logo = Simpsons logo.svg | type = Subsidiary | fate = Converted to The Bay | predecessor = Simpson & Trent (1858–1870) | successor = The Bay | foundation = {{sda|1872}} (as R. Simpson, Dry Goods) | founder = Robert Simpson | defunct = August 14, 1991 | location_city = Toronto, Ontario | location_country = Canada | locations = | parent = Hudson's Bay Company<br />(1978–1991) | area_served = Canada | industry = Retail | products = Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, appliances, housewares, tools, and electronics }}
'''The Robert Simpson Company Limited''', commonly known as '''Simpson's''' until 1972, then as '''Simpsons''', and in Quebec sometimes as '''Simpson''', was a Canadian department store chain that had its earliest roots in a store opened in 1858 by Robert Simpson.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hbcheritage.ca/hbcheritage/history/acquisitions/retail/simpsons |title=HBC Heritage: The Robert Simpson Company |access-date=2013-10-22 |archive-date=2017-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421203503/http://hbcheritage.ca/hbcheritage/history/acquisitions/retail/simpsons |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 1952, Simpson's started a 50–50 joint venture in Canada named Simpsons-Sears Limited (later Sears Canada) with Sears, Roebuck, the American retailer. Simpsons-Sears stores remained distinct from the Simpson's stores and the parent companies' agreement included language to keep them from competing too directly with each other.
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) purchased the Simpsons-branded stores in 1978, but they were later converted to The Bay stores by the early 1990s. As part of the 1978 agreement, American-based Sears acquired full ownership of Simpsons-Sears Limited.
== History == thumb|left|150px|Robert Simpson's store in 1891 Robert Simpson's original store (Simpson & Bogart after 1861), was opened in 1858 in Newmarket, Ontario at what is now 226-228 Main Street South (original building since demolished).<ref name="Robert Simpson">{{Cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/simpson_robert_12E.html|title=Biography – SIMPSON, ROBERT – Volume XII (1891-1900) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography|website=www.biographi.ca}}</ref> it was co-founded with William Trent as ''Simpson & Trent Groceries, Boots, Shoes and Dry Goods''. A fire destroyed the store in 1870, and a new dry goods store was opened two years later in Toronto.<ref name="Robert Simpson"/> Robert Simpson lived at 384 Botsford Street in Newmarket from 1861 to 1876.
The company was renamed the Robert Simpson Company Limited in May 1896, not long before Robert Simpson's sudden death on 14 December 1897, at the age of 63. With no male heir, Simpson's death placed a heavy burden on his wife, Mary, and daughter, Margaret. They sold the business for $135,000 in March 1898 to a syndicate of three Toronto businessmen, Harris Henry Fudger (1852–1930), Joseph Flavelle, and Alfred Ernest Ames (1866–1934).
thumb|150px|left|Page from the Robert Simpson Co. White Goods Catalogue, 1901 In 1912, Charles Luther (C.L.) Burton became assistant general manager at the Robert Simpson Company, then under the directorship of his old friend and mentor, H. H. Fudger. By 1929, Burton was president of Simpson's, becoming chairman of the board in 1948, when his son Edgar assumed the presidency.
[[File:Friends and Family and Trips. In front of Simpsons BAnQ P48S1P00807.jpg|thumb|right|Menswear showcase of Simpson's store on St. Catherine Street in Montreal, 1936]] The store in downtown Toronto included one of the city's most exclusive restaurants, the Arcadian Court, which opened in 1929 and still operates today (as an event space) after the store's acquisition by Hudson's Bay Company in 1978.<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/toronto-feature-arcadian-court Toronto Feature: Arcadian Court] at The Canadian Encyclopedia, accessed September 4, 2019</ref> Throughout its history, Simpsons was the traditional "carriage-trade" department store in Toronto, competing with the T. Eaton Company. The motto "You'll enjoy shopping at Simpson's" was conceived by Robert Simpson and remained the company's slogan until its acquisition by the Hudson's Bay Company.
thumb|150px|left|Previous logo (changed in 1957)
===Simpsons-Sears=== right|thumb|Simpsons-Sears logo In 1952, General Robert E. Wood, the Chairman of U.S. retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co., sent a letter to Edgar G. Burton, President of the Robert Simpson Company of Toronto, proposing a partnership between their two companies in order to serve the Canadian market. The deal to create Simpsons-Sears Limited, a Canadian catalogue and department store chain separate from the Simpsons chain, was signed on September 18, 1952, and the terms were 50-50. Each company put up $20 million and had equal representation on the new company's board of directors. The new company was to have two main objectives. The first was to expand Simpsons' existing mail-order business, which was sold to the new company. The second goal was to build a string of stores modelled on Sears, Roebuck's format right across the country.
The agreement also contained a provision that would prove to be a major bone of contention in the coming years. Under its terms, Simpsons-Sears could not open a retail store within 25 miles of Simpson's existing stores in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Regina and London.<ref name="CTV News"/> In return, Simpson's promised not to build any stores outside of those five cities. Simpsons-Sears mail-order business, however, was free to operate anywhere in Canada, and so was the new Simpsons-Sears Acceptance Company, the credit arm of the operation.
The business operations of Simpsons-Sears began when the first Simpsons-Sears Spring/Summer Catalogue rolled off the presses of Photo-Engravers and Electrotypers, Ltd. and were delivered to 300,000 Canadian homes in early 1953.
On Thursday, September 17, 1953, the first Simpsons-Sears retail store opened in Stratford, Ontario at 9:15 a.m. The second Simpsons-Sears store opened in Kamloops, B.C., in December of that year.
In the 1960s, Simpson's was among the first 10 Canadian companies to start using computers in all their locations, and programming was done in Toronto and Montreal by accounting clerks, many of whom were women. Enormous rooms with special ventilation were built to house IBM punch card mainframe machines in those two locations.
In 1972, Simpsons and Simpsons-Sears agreed to end the 25-mile restriction and permit Simpsons and Simpsons-Sears stores anywhere. The following year, when Simpsons-Sears opened a store in the city of Mississauga, approximately {{convert|30|km|mi|abbr=on}} west of Toronto, the company decided to use the ''Sears'' name alone in order to prevent confusion with Simpsons stores operating in Toronto.
===Acquisition by the Hudson's Bay Company=== [[Image:Simpsons in Toronto.jpg|thumb|right|The Bay Queen Street, formerly Simpsons' flagship store in Toronto, later operated by The Bay.]] In 1978, the Hudson's Bay Company acquired Simpsons and federal competition law required the partnership to terminate, thus Simpsons and Simpsons-Sears could no longer share facilities. Sears stores continued to carry the Simpsons-Sears name on signage and the name remained in use both informally and as its business name well into the 1980s. Simpsons-Sears officially changed its name to Sears Canada in 1984.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/3796409/sears-canada-history/|title=Sears Canada: The rise and fall of the department store empire|website=Global News}}</ref>
Simpsons closed on June 27, 1981, the store in Regina, Saskatchewan it had operated since 1916 after four consecutive years of financial losses with that location.<ref name="04 Mar 1981">{{cite news|title = Simpsons plans Regina closing|newspaper = The Globe and Mail|location = Toronto|page = B12|date =4 March 1981}}</ref> It also closed its only store in Ottawa on January 29, 1983.<ref name="September 25, 1982">{{cite news|title = Simpsons is closing its store in Ottawa|newspaper = The Globe and Mail|location = Toronto|page = B6|date =25 September 1982}}</ref><ref name="Oct 6, 1982">{{cite news|title = Simpsons is closing its store in Ottawa|newspaper = Women's Wear Daily|location = New York|page = 26|date =6 October 1982}}</ref> The 83,000 square feet multi-level store had never been profitable ever since Simpsons acquired it in June 1972 and was notorious for not having any escalators.<ref name="Oct 6, 1982"/>
In March 1983, The Bay store at Mayflower Mall in Sydney, Nova Scotia was rebranded to Simpsons.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hudson’s Bay Company|first=Annual Report 1982|title=HBC Annual Report 1982|page=8|url=https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/images/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/635541.pdf}}</ref>
In July 1984, Simpsons terminated 1,631 employees, including more than a thousand in Toronto alone.<ref name="July 12, 1984">{{cite news|title = Simpsons mass firing stuns staff|newspaper = Montreal Gazette|location = Montreal|page = 1|date =July 12, 1984|url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Fr8DH2VBP9sC&dat=19840712&printsec=frontpage&hl=en}}</ref> Simpsons lost $53 million that year alone.<ref name="June 6, 1991 (Globe and Mail)"/>
The flagship store's acquisition of a large quantity of toy robots was a major plot point in the movie ''Short Circuit 2'' in 1988.
Simpsons vanished from Greater Montreal in 1989 with its five stores either converted to The Bay or simply closed, leaving the chain with a presence only in the Toronto area.<ref name="January 3, 1991">{{cite news|title = The Bay, Simpsons merge advertising: Savings of $15-million projected for joint effort aimed at greater Toronto area|newspaper = Globe and Mail|location = Toronto|page = B1|date = January 3, 1991}}</ref> That year, the flagship Simpsons store in downtown Toronto completed a $30 million facelift with a relaunch known as the ''Miracle on Queen Street''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2025/10/simpsons-signage-reappears-at-former-hudsons-bay-flagship-on-queen-street/|title=Simpsons Signage Reappears at Former Hudson’s Bay Flagship on Queen Street|first=Craig|last=Patterson|date=October 14, 2025}}</ref> HBC acknowledged at the time that Simpsons wasn't doing great in Toronto but was still performing well enough to continue there and even planned to add three more locations to the existing 11 stores in the area.<ref name="19 January 1989">{{cite news|title = Grim news at Simpsons leaves no mark in Metro|newspaper = Toronto Star|location = Toronto|page = A1|date = 19 January 1991}}</ref> The aforementioned openings did materialized in 1989 and 1990 at the Erin Mills, Mapleview Mall and Markville Shopping Centre.<ref>{{cite web|title=HBC Annual Report 1989|url=https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/images/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/635547.pdf|page=11|website=McGill Digital Archives}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=HBC Annual Report 1990|url=https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/images/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/635548.pdf|pages=10-11|website=McGill Digital Archives}}</ref>
===The end=== The Hudson's Bay Company attempted to operate Simpsons as a more-upscale nameplate than its main brand, The Bay, but was unsuccessful.<ref name="January 3, 1991"/> The chain's operations in Greater Toronto were merged with The Bay in 1991 and the Simpsons name was retired after a retail presence of almost 120 years.<ref name="CTV News"/>
Reasons for the Hudson's Bay Company's decision were the recession and the fact that it rarely made profits with the Simpsons stores ever since the acquisition in the late 1970s.<ref name="June 6, 1991 (Globe and Mail)">{{cite news|title = Simpsons sign to vanish in fall round of mergers: Hudson's Bay to wrap stores into Bay chain, sell 8 to Sears|newspaper = Globe and Mail|location = Toronto|page = B1|date = 6 June 1991}}</ref> Simpsons struggled to stand out from The Bay.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6782002|title=Hudson's Bay department store faces crisis in 1985|via=www.cbc.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wsms8Jx6rN4|title=When Hudson’s Bay stores were in trouble in the 1980|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> Although Simpsons was slightly higher end than The Bay, the distinction was hardly noticeable to the average shopper. The Hudson's Bay Company came to the conclusion that it would be better to rationalize its operations than to divide its customer base.<ref name="June 6, 1991 (Globe and Mail)"/> Much of the operations of Simpsons and The Bay, such as purchasing, advertising and credit cards, had already been consolidated by the time HBC decided to merge the two chains.<ref name="June 6, 1991 (Globe and Mail)"/> The Simpsons chain also suffered from an identity crisis within itself, with an upscale flagship downtown store filled with high-end merchandise in contrast to the mid-priced suburban mall locations that were basically like The Bay.<ref name="June 6, 1991 (Globe and Mail)"/><ref name="June 6, 1991 (National Post)"/> When the merger was announced in June 1991, it had been suggested that the downtown location continue operating as a Simpsons store but HBC turned down the idea under the explanation that it would be too expensive to implement such plan.<ref>{{cite news|title = End of 119-year era leaves staff in tears|newspaper = Toronto Star|location = Toronto|page = A1|date = 6 June 1991}}</ref>
Finally, the demise of Simpsons came at a time when the Hudson's Bay Company was seriously controlling its operating costs in anticipation of an eventual entrance to Canada by American giant Wal-Mart which was already conquering the retail landscape in its country and attracting Canadians living close to the border.<ref name="La Presse">{{cite news|title = Simpsons disparaît du paysage canadien.|newspaper = La Presse|location = Montreal|page = D3|date = 6 June 1991|url = http://collections.banq.qc.ca/retrieve/4455925|access-date = 2018-05-17}}</ref>
== Legacy== thumb|right|upright|Former Simpsons building in Montreal, now Carrefour Industrielle Alliance mall. The Simpsons store on Queen Street West in Toronto continued to operate under the Hudson's Bay nameplate as the chain's, and Canada's, largest department store until Hudson Bay's bankruptcy in 2025. The adjacent Simpson Tower, which used to house Simpsons offices, served as the main headquarters for the Hudson's Bay Company until the mid-2010s.
In 1991, Sears Canada acquired several Simpsons locations in the Toronto market, primarily where HBC had both Bay and Simpsons stores operating within the same shopping centre.<ref name="June 6, 1991 (Globe and Mail)"/> When Simpsons folded in 1991, eight of its stores were absorbed by The Bay.<ref name="June 6, 1991 (National Post)">{{cite news|title = Simpsons: The final sale|newspaper = National Post|location = Toronto|page = 8|date =June 6, 1991|url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/national-post-simpsons-the-final-sale/130223876/}}</ref> The other six Simpsons stores were sold to Sears.<ref name="June 6, 1991 (National Post)"/> Sears also acquired two existing The Bay stores at the Scarborough Town Centre and Yorkdale shopping malls.<ref name="June 6, 1991 (National Post)"/> On the other hand, the Sears store at the Burlington Mall was sold to The Bay.<ref name="June 6, 1991 (National Post)"/> The stores that went to The Bay were all rebranded on August 14, 1991.<ref name="August 15, 1991">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star/143067739/|title = Bay takeover of Simpsons completed|newspaper = Toronto Star|location = Toronto|page = F3|date = 15 August 1991}}</ref> The locations that Sears acquired were closed in July 1991, renovated and progressively reopened at various dates in August and September 1991 with the former Simpsons/The Bay employees.<ref>{{cite news|title = Retail shakeout puts new life into Sears|newspaper = Toronto Star|location = Toronto|page = D1|date = 29 July 1991}}</ref><ref name="25 September 1991">{{cite news|title = A smashing experience MAKEOVER "Les Channell has masterminded the hectic conversion of eight stores into Sears outlets |newspaper = The Globe and Mail|location = Toronto|page = B1|date = 25 September 1991}}</ref> The Sears store at Mapleview Mall in particular opened on August 14, 1991, the same date The Bay replaced its Simpsons locations.<ref name="25 September 1991"/> None of Simpsons' locations in 1991 closed outright as they were all changed to either The Bay or Sears stores with limited job losses.<ref name="CTV News">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/vcTqLTriDjk Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20201123072042/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcTqLTriDjk Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcTqLTriDjk&form=MY01SV&OCID=MY01SV| title = June 5, 1991: The Bay takes over final Simpsons stores | website=YouTube| date = 5 June 2015 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>
Of the Simpsons stores in Quebec, three of them - Anjou, Pointe-Claire and Laval - switched to The Bay on January 29, 1989.<ref>{{cite news|title = Customers, employees unfazed by store switch: [WEST ISLAND Edition]|newspaper = Montreal Gazette|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-customers-employees-unfazed/130081707/|location = Montreal|page = G1|date =26 January 1989}}</ref> The three locations were rebranded in March 1989 after a transition period as Simpsons stores operated by The Bay.<ref>{{cite news|title = The Bay advertisement page|newspaper = Montreal Gazette|location = Montreal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-the-bay-advertisement-page/130090119/|page = B8|date =11 March 1989}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title = The Bay advertisement|newspaper = Montreal Gazette|location = Montreal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-the-bay-advertisement/130109396/|page = B6|date =February 2, 1989}}</ref> The other two Simpsons locations, in downtown Montreal and St-Bruno, closed because there were existing The Bay stores near them.<ref>{{cite web|title=HBC Annual Report 1988|pages=2|url=https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/images/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/635546.pdf|website=McGill Digital Archives}}</ref> HBC unsuccessfully tried to find a buyer for the Simpsons store in St-Bruno.<ref>{{cite news|title = Simpsons to shut down downtown store, lay off 900|url =https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-simpsons-to-shut-down-downto/130098439/|newspaper = Montreal Gazette|location = Montreal|page = A1|date =January 18, 1989}}</ref> The Bay store in St-Bruno eventually relocated to Simpsons' vacated location that same year.<ref>{{cite web|title=HBC Annual Report 1989|url=https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/images/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/635547.pdf|page=8|website=McGill Digital Archives}}</ref> The downtown store closed on January 28, 1989, but reopened in mid-February for its final sale.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2682767576| title = This day in Montreal - 1989: Simpson's department stores close {{!}} CBC.ca}}</ref><ref name="April 14, 1989"/> After its clearance concluded on April 8, 1989, it was converted the following week (on April 15) as a Simpsons-branded liquidation centre, using 50 of the 900 employees of the original store and only two of the floors.<ref name="April 14, 1989">{{cite news|title = Simpsons store to be a liquidation centre| url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-simpsons-store-to-be-a-liqui/130104628/|newspaper = Montreal Gazette|location = Montreal|page = C2|date =April 14, 1989}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title = Simpsons liquidation centre advertisement| url = https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-simpsons-liquidation-centre/130104866/|newspaper = Montreal Gazette|location = Montreal|page = B6|date =May 2, 1989}}</ref> The building later sat vacant for many years in the heart of the city's shopping district until it was turned in 1999 into a mall named Carrefour Industrielle Alliance, anchored by La Maison Simons and Famous Players (today Scotiabank Theatre).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://carrefourindustriellealliance.com/en/about/|title=About}}</ref>thumb|right|upright|Old Simpsons department store trailers from 1960 on a field outside Whitby, Ontario
The Simpsons stores outside of the Greater Toronto and Greater Montreal areas were actually the first to be converted to The Bay on July 30, 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hudson’s Bay Company|first=Annual Report 1986|title=HBC Annual Report 1986|page=8|url=https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/images/hrcorpreports/pdfs/6/635544.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title = Bay manager at Devonshire likes challenge|publisher = Windsor Star|location = Windsor|page = D3|date = October 25, 1986}}</ref> This included the stores in the province of Nova Scotia as well as Ontario locations in London, Kitchener, Kingston and Windsor.<ref name="February 26, 1986">{{cite news|title =Eight Simpsons to become Bay stores|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen-eight-simpsons-to-bec/130266677/|newspaper = Ottawa Citizen|location = Ottawa|page = C9|date = 26 February 1986}}</ref> Like the ones in Toronto and Montreal, many of these The Bay stores are still standing including those at White Oaks Mall, Cataraqui Centre, Fairview Park Mall, Devonshire Mall, Mic Mac Mall and Mayflower Mall. The Bay in Halifax, closed in 2011, was among the Simpsons stores rebranded in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Halifax's Bay store closing {{!}} CBC News | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-s-bay-store-closing-1.1044996 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812143455/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-s-bay-store-closing-1.1044996 | access-date=2024-12-27 | archive-date=2023-08-12}}</ref><ref name="February 26, 1986"/>
After the Simpsons chain ceased to exist in 1991, the Hudson's Bay Company continued to accept Simpsons credit cards in its The Bay and Zellers stores until the company launched the HBC credit card in 2001.
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office database reports that the trademark to the name "Simpsons" was owned by Sears Canada from 2001 to 2008. It was purchased from the Hudson's Bay Company in 2001, ten years after the name had been retired. In 2008, Sears Canada transferred all of its trademarks (including the Simpsons trademark) to 1373639 Alberta Ltd., which appears to be a shell company of Sears Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/vwTrdmrk.do;jsessionid=0000DmMMAaiuA0-NZqTPZVoidsb:1247nfca5?lang=eng&fileNumber=0571701&extension=0&startingDocumentIndexOnPage=11 |title=CIPO — Canadian Trade-marks Database |publisher=Ic.gc.ca |access-date=2009-07-17}}</ref>
=== St. Regis Room and West End Shop === {{See also|The Room (store)|West End Shop}} The two most "exclusive" clothing departments in the former Simpsons downtown Toronto location, the St. Regis Room (now known as the Room and extensively renovated in late 2009 by Yabu Pushelberg) for women and the West End Shop for men, are still in operation at the Bay's downtown Toronto Queen Street store. Designers in the St. Regis Room include Givenchy, Christian Lacroix, Valentino, Armani Collezioni, Louis Féraud, Karl Lagerfeld, Balmain, Andrew Gn, Lida Baday, Bellville Sassoon, David Hayes, and others. The West End shop designers include Hugo Boss, Strellson, and others.
While operated by Simpsons, the St. Regis Room offered some of the most exclusive fashion collections in Canada. Christian Dior, Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent, Claude Montana, André Courrèges, and many others were featured in this luxury store.
== Governance ==
=== President ===
# Robert Simpson, 1896–1897 # Harris H. Fudger, 1898–1929 # Charles L. Burton, 1929–1948 # Edgar G. Burton Sr., 1948–1964 # G. Allan Burton, 1964–1970 # Charles B. Stewart, 1970–1976 # Edgar G. Burton Jr, 1976–1978
=== Chairman of the Board ===
# Sir Joseph W. Flavelle, 1925–1929 # Harris H. Fudger, 1929–1930 # Charles L. Burton, 1948–1956 # Edgar G. Burton Sr., 1956–1968 # G. Allan Burton, 1968–1978
== See also == *Sears Canada *Hudson's Bay Company *Hudson's Bay (department store) *List of Canadian department stores *Hudson's Bay flagship store
== References == {{Reflist}}
===Further reading=== * {{FadedPage|id=20230857|name=A Sense of Urgency: Biography of Charles Burton, president of Simpsons, 1929-1948}} A Store of Memories, a memoir by G. Allan Burton, Charles Burton's son and in his turn Chairman and CEO of Simpsons, was published in 1986.
== External links == * [http://todays-special.schuminweb.com/todays-special/behind-the-scenes/simpsons.php Simpsons - The Store] * {{cite web|url=http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cpm/catalog/cat2407e.shtml |first=Carol J |last=Anderson |title=Company histories: Simpson's |publisher=Canadian Museum of Civilization }} * [http://www.hbcheritage.ca/history/acquisitions/robert-simpson-company HBC Heritage: The Robert Simpson Company] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017225005/http://www.hbcheritage.ca/history/acquisitions/robert-simpson-company |date=2018-10-17 }} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20061011150949/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=112131 Emporis Listing of Toronto flagship]}}
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