Timothy Eaton and the Rise of His Department Store

By Joy L. Santink

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Timothy Eaton and the Rise of His Department Store is a 1990 business history by Joy L. Santink, published by University of Toronto Press. Santink traces Timothy Eaton's path from Irish immigrant and small-town Ontario shopkeeper to founder of the Toronto store he opened in 1869. She looks at how cash-only sales, fixed prices, a money-back guarantee and a mail-order catalogue helped Eaton's become Canada's leading department store by the time of his death in 1907.

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• Shane Parrish: “'Timothy Eaton and the Rise of His Department Store' by Joy L. Santiuk, which focuses on the founder's life.”