City of Regina Archives Photograph Collection, CORA-A-1223

Title: The Robert Simpson Co. Western Mail Order House Regina
Date: ca. 1925
Retrieval Number: CORA-A-1223
Extent: 1 Albumen print; 8.5 cm x 7 cm
Scope and Content Note: The Robert Simpson Co. Western Mail Order House at 4 th Avenue and Broad Street
Access Restrictions: None
Photographer: Unknown
Parent fonds/collection: CORA Photograph Collection
Historical Note: The Robert Simpson Co. Western Mail Order House, located at 1050 Broad Street , was built in 1915. During the 1930s the Robert Simpson Company operated a full-service department store on the first four floors of the building. This continued until 1946, when Simpson's purchased the R.H. Williams and Sons Department Store on Hamilton Street and 11 th Avenue and moved the retail end of the operation into that building. The Broad Street location became the wholesale wing of the Robert Simpson Company. Today, after many mergers, the company has become Sears Canada, and the Broad Street building is still in use today as a call centre and warehouse.