Founded in 1922, Canadian Tire Corporation is one of Canada's most-shopped general retailers, providing products and services for the jobs and joys of everyday life. With more than 1,200 retail and gasoline outlets across the country, our primary business categories - Automotive, Living, Fixing, Playing and Apparel - are supported by our Financial Services division.Our core retail and automotive operation is strengthened by PartSource, an automotive parts speciality chain; Canadian Tire Petroleum, one of the country's largest independent retailers of gasoline; Mark's, a leading retailer of men's, women's and work apparel; and Canadian Tire Financial Services, which has issued approximately four million Canadian Tire MasterCard credit cards.
Come visit The Patch: Sauble Beach for more than just clothing! We have a separate store dedicated to providing you the greatest and largest selection of jewelry and accessories on the beach. Under our silver products you can find rings, pendants, earrings, necklaces, anklets and much more (including a great variety of stone products). Come check out the Butterfly located right beside The Patch to find something special for yourself or your loved ones
Canadian Tire Retail (CTR) is Canadian Tire's core business and one of Canada's most-shopped general merchandise retailers with 479 stores across the country serving over 180 million customers a year. CTR is the Canadian market leader in each of its three main product divisions: Automotive, Home and Leisure.
The original company was founded in 1933 by J.D. Oaks and operated as a family owned business under the name of Oaks Precast Industries in Guelph, Ontario.
Originally manufactured concrete brick and block for the local renovation market and later precast concrete sewer products. In May of 1972, Oaks Precast was purchased by Standard Industries (later to be known as Lafarge) from the Oaks family.
In 1981, Oaks diversified into a new market - the concrete paving stone and retaining wall products. Production for these lines began at the Markham, Ontario plant. The London, Ontario facility (shared with Concrete Pipe Company) produced paving stones and walls during the years 1985 to 1989. This plant was instrumental in the development of the US market in Michigan.