Read more about Kierski & Co. here and T.N. Hibben here. Read more about T.N. Hibben and James Carswell. See here for more about the Colonial Bookstore. See here for more about the Colonial Bookstore. See here for more about George Clarkson. See here for more about George Clarkson. Read more about Thomas Robson Pearson here. (Timeline date is estimated; he may have opened the store as early as 1879.) See here for more about J.B. Ferguson. See here, here, and here for more about Tilley’s Vancouver store. Read more about Thomas Robson Pearson here. Read more about J.B. Ferguson, T.R. Pearson, and the BC Stationery and Printing Company. Read about Henry Morey here, here, and here. Read more about Thomas Robson Pearson and the BC Stationery and Printing Company. Read more about Thomas Robson Pearson here. Read more about William Harrison here. Read more about the formation and eventual end of BC Stationery and Printing Co. Read more about Margaret Peebles here. Read more about William Harrison here. Read more about Wood & Charlton’s short-lived shop in Vancouver. Read more about the Bailey Bros. story here and here. See here for more about the final years of S.T. Tilley’s book and stationery store. Read more about Thomson Bros./Thomson Stationery here and here. Read more about Thomson Bros. here and here. Read more about the Vancouver Book Co. and Granville Stationery Co. here. Read more about Gaskell Book & Stationery here and here. Read more about the end of these businesses here. Read about Henry Morey here, here, and here. Read more about Granville Stationery Co. and its predecessor firm, Bailey Bros., starting here.
T.N. Hibben buys Kierski & Co. in Victoria
Hibben & Carswell operating bookstore in Victoria
Seth Thorne Tilley opens Colonial Bookstore in New Westminster
Seth Tilley sells Colonial Bookstore (New Westminster) to Hibben & Carswell
George Clarkson, as partner of Hibben & Carswell, runs Colonial Bookstore (New Westminster) as Clarkson & Co.
George Clarkson and T.N. Hibben & Co. dissolve partnership in New Westminster bookstore
Thomas Robson Pearson opens book and stationery store in New Westminster
John Bowerman Ferguson opens J.B. Ferguson & Co. in Victoria
Seth Thorne Tilley opens book and stationery story in Vancouver
T.R. Pearson & Co. opens store in Granville (Vancouver)
J.B. Ferguson, T.R. Pearson, David Robson, and J.A. Hart form B.C. Stationery and Printing Co.
Henry Morey establishes H. Morey & Company in New Westminster
Thomas R. Pearson withdraws from BC Stationery and Printing and resumes T.R. Pearson & Co.
Thomas R. Pearson sells New Westminster bookstore to David Lyal
William Harrison running the B.C. Book Store in Vancouver
BC Stationery and Printing Co. declares bankruptcy; T.N. Hibben & Co. and Robert Jamieson pick up pieces
Margaret Peebles opens Miss Peebles in New Westminster
William Harrison sells the B.C. Book Store in Vancouver
Wood & Charlton close in Vancouver
Charles and William Bailey form Bailey Bros. in Vancouver
Seth Tilley sells Vancouver book and stationery store to Harold Clarke and J. Duff-Stuart
Thomson Bros. renamed as Thomson Stationery
Thomson Stationery sold to Gaskell, Odlum, Stabler
Vancouver Book Co. and Granville Stationery Co. take over Bailey Bros. branches in Vancouver
Gaskell, Odlum, Stabler becomes Gaskell Book & Stationery Co.
Gaskell Book & Stationery Co. and Thomson Stationery Co. go bankrupt
Henry Morey sells Morey & Co. to A.C. and D.C. Nixon
Granville Stationery Co. goes out of business
