Fairway Markets

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

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 grocery 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

7108 West Saanich Road, Brentwood, BC
2531 Beacon Ave, Sidney, BC

West Shore

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

References

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