Fairway Markets

Fairway Markets [1] is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

This article is about the Vancouver Island grocery chain. It is not to be confused with Fairway Market.
For other uses, see Fairway (disambiguation).
Fairway Markets logo

The ten store chain was founded by Don Yuen[2] in 1963 and employs over 700.[3] The chain is a low cost grocery store with a significant emphasis on ethnic foods.

Founder

Don Yuen was born in China, where his family had operated a grocer store for three generations and came to Canada in 1949 after the family lost their business to communism.[4] Yuen worked at his uncle's store and at a sawmill before embarking on his own store in 1963. Yuen is now Fairway Markets' President.

Locations

Greater Victoria

  • 272 Gorge Road West, Saanich, BC - original store from 1963
  • 1521 McKenzie Ave, Saanich, BC
  • 101-2187 Athlone Court, Oak Bay, BC
  • 2635 Quadra St, Victoria, BC - former Safeway location
  • 3651 Shelbourne St, Saanich, BC

Nanaimo

  • 103-4750 Rutherford Road, Nanaimo, BC

Saanich Peninsula

West Shore

  • 2945 Jacklin Road, Langford, BC
  • 772 Goldstream Ave, Langford, BC - former Western Foods location

References
  1. Fairway Market website
  2. "Company Profile". Archived from the original on 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
  3. "Brentwood Bay store makes 10 for Fairway Market chain - Peninsula News Review". www.peninsulanewsreview.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
  4. "Honorary Cabinet". Archived from the original on 2010-12-11. Retrieved 2012-05-30.


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