Fairway Markets
Grocery chain on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
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Fairway Markets [1] is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Stores are located in Brentwood Bay, Langford, Nanaimo, Oak Bay, Saanich (3), Sidney, and Victoria.[2]
The nine-store chain was founded by Don Yuen[3] in 1963 and employs over 700.[4]
Founder
Founder and President 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.[5] Yuen worked at his uncle's store and at a sawmill before embarking on his own store in 1963.
