Toronto: Shoppers Drug Mart

Shoppers Drug Mart: The landscape at our Three Corners may not be the rugged high desert, but it does have a bank, gas station, and Danforth Shoppers World, the latter deserving of a plaque of its own as it included one of Canadas earliest enclosed shopping malls when built in 1962. There was once an Eatons here and the plaza lent its name to the now ubiquitous Shoppers Drug Mart chain when founder Murray Koffler opened a pharmacy here that same year, according to The Star. Some people walk here. Some drive. Bicycles even roll by. Some residents own their homes, others rent. People go about their business, city life carries on, and unless you already know, its impossible to tell which corner here was located in Scarborough, East York, or Toronto and The intersection of Danforth and Victoria Park Aves. should have a historic plaque. This was once where three former municipalities met East York, Toronto, and Scarborough until those borders were dissolved by amalgamation in 1997. Its as close as we get to our own Four Corners, the site in the American southwest where Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico meet. This corner is what a lot of Toronto looks like. There are low-rise residential areas nearby, the large Crescent Town apartment neighbourhood is a block north of here, and independent retail shops along Danforth are plentiful. Victoria Park subway station is newly renovated and ravines are close by, too. Its Toronto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.