Oh Canada

[captain_slinky]

Since I'm staying at my parents place for my recuperation, I've been watching A LOT of Canadian TV. Mostly CBUT and KVOS (okay, so KVOZ is actually in Bellingham... but c'mon, it's TOTALLY a Canadian TV Station).

The commercials are bringing back all sorts of great memories except for *one*. And I need the help of my Canuckian friends to restore that memory!

When I was young, I saw commercials for tons of Canada-Only stores. So far this week I have seen commercials for almost all of them:

• Canadian Tire
• London Drug
• Future Shop

Other Canadian businesses that this has made me remember are Cloverdale Paint and The Brick.

But there's at least one chain of Drug Stores that escapes me! WHAT IS IT?!?!? It was a Drug Store/Department Store, and I can't for the life of me remember what it was. Any help?

Comments

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

Zeller's?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

YES! ZELLERS!!! Thank you!

[firefly-pink.livejournal.com]

Shopper's Drug Mart?

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

OOH! The one i was looking for was Zellers, but Shoppers Drugmart! That's ANOTHER one! Thank you!

[cast-aspersions.livejournal.com]

hahahaha, i love it when americans get psyched about canada :D

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Oh I've *always* been psyched about Canada! Grew-up an hour from the border! And since we didn't have Cable till the early 90's in my neck of the thick woods, all I had to watch were 3 different versions of CBUT and the Bellingham station (KVOS). Mr. Dress-Up, The Friendly Giant, Fred Penner's Place and Sesame Street featuring FRENCH instead of Spanish were all I knew :)

[cast-aspersions.livejournal.com]

all shows i used to watch :D

and, and, i worked at zellers for three and a half years. i am a stereotypical canadian, i guess!

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

Dolemite's House of What You Need?

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

I don't think that one is exclusively Canadian.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

It's what you's needs
To make it ALL right
The House Of What You Need
Courtesy of DOLE-A-MITE!!!

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

A Burma Shave ad, no less!

[cast-aspersions.livejournal.com]

i've never even heard of that.

[zannah.livejournal.com]

I was going to say Shopper's Drug Mart (drug store) or the Bay (department store).

[zannah.livejournal.com]

Also they now have one called something like "The Real Canadian Superstore."

[dotgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Bay! That's the other one I was trying to remember, in addition to Zellers.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I feel the need for a Pre-Xmas Road Trip now... we'll have an Olde Fashioned Canadian Xmas!

(And by "Olde Fashioned" I of course mean "Circa 1998 or so", because Canada is perpetually 3-to-10 years behind us)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Ahh, The Bay... yet another excellent suggestion! Thanks!

But the one I was looking for was indeed "Zellers" :)

[teegin.livejournal.com]

OMG this post is so totally taking me back. I still have my Zellers card even.The store I truly miss though is Mark's work Warehouse.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

MARKS WORK WHAREHOUSE!!! YES!!!

Having lots of fun all day long singing "Cloverdale, Cloverdaaaaaaaaaaale... PAINT."

[firefly-pink.livejournal.com]

Hehehe .. we have the Westshore Town Center (http://westshoretowncentre.com/stores/) near us with lots of stores...

[teegin.livejournal.com]

If you would like more, Future shop, Macs, Moxies, Rogers, Shaw Cable, Chapters, Boston Pizza aka BP, Husky gas stations, Humptys (basically dennys), molson, London Drugs, Maple Leaf foods, Save-on-Foods, MuchMusic, Roots, Swiss Chalet, Tim Hortons, Robins donughts, United Furniture Warehouse, and there probably more but thats all I can come up with off the top of my head. You might find this fun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Canadian_Invention