for the british department store formerly of this name see army & navy stores united kingdom army & navy stores inc. type department store industry retail founded 1919 founder samuel cohen headquarters vancouver british columbia canada products clothing fishing tackle footwear bedding furniture hardware outdoor gear beauty products and housewares . website army & navy stores army & navy is a department store chain in canada billing itself as canada s original discount store . it operates six stores in alberta and british columbia . history edit samuel joseph cohen a jewish canadian opened the first army & navy location in vancouver british columbia on west hastings street in 1919 selling liquidation stock from closing bankrupt or destroyed stores and world war i army and navy surplus goods at low prices . a second store was opened in regina saskatchewan on scarth street in 1920 and a third location was opened in edmonton alberta in 1928 on 104th street and whyte avenue . a fourth store opened in moose jaw saskatchewan in 1933 . army & navy opened a store in new westminster british columbia in 1939 . an additional edmonton store located at 97th street and 103rd avenue east of the downtown core was opened in 1955 and renovated and enlarged in 1968 . in 1969 army & navy renovated and doubled the size of its regina location . with the death of samuel cohen in 1966 garth c. kennedy became president of the company with jack d. cohen as vice president . in 1973 army & navy took over a former eaton s location in saskatoon saskatchewan at 21st street and 3rd avenue a location now occupied by the saskatoon public school division . in 1978 the new westminster store moved into the former eaton s store at 502 columbia street which closed in late 1977 a few blocks away and remains there today and in 1980 an eighth location was opened in calgary alberta at 1107 33rd street ne . in 1998 ceo garth kennedy died and the company was turned over to sam cohen s granddaughter jacqui cohen . in 2000 the moose jaw store closed followed soon after by the other two saskatchewan stores . a new store was opened in langley british columbia in 2001 and in edmonton in 2003 in londonderry mall as a replacement for the aging 97th street store . the londonderry mall location closed in 2016 and will be replaced by the lower level of la maison simons the upper level was a sport chek supercentre . army & navy ran a mail order catalogue business from 1925 1986 making it one of the longest running canadian department store catalogues . external links edit company website v t e companies based in the metro vancouver area 604 records a & w canada advanced cyclotron systems apparent networks avigilon aritzia army & navy stores ballard power systems best buy canada black box games blenz coffee blueshore financial boston pizza brightlight pictures british columbia maritime employers association broadbandtv corp chc helicopter ctc bank of canada cactus club cafe canada wide media limited 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