It has been 30 years since downtown Hamilton‘s 90-year-old Robinson’s department store on James Street South was demolished. “In 1899 Robinson’s created a street when they opened on James ...

The store on the corner of Broad Street and Cornmarket Street had been trading since 1738, and was the second oldest family-owned department store in the world.

The store has never left its site on Princes Street, but its original building was destroyed by fire in 1892. In 1893 the Scottish architect William Hamilton Beattie was appointed to design a ...

The department store reported stronger than expected sales for the first quarter of 2019, with same-store sales increasing by 0.7%, thanks to in-store renovations, improved e-commerce, and ...

The department store was once a marker of civic prestige, an anchor of the main street, a place about potential. The joy of shopping was not so much in the destination but in the journey.