Zeller's Ltd

Zeller's Ltd was a company in Fort William operated by Norman E. Ranson in 1950.

Directory listings

Year	Name as listed	Details	Address	Source
1950	Zeller's Ltd Norman E Ranson mgr (Variety Stores) 412 Victoria	Norman E. Ranson manager, variety stores, 412 Victoria		p. 361

Advertisements

1961, Giant '61

Advertised in the Giant '61 (1961), scan page 67, with the address printed as Port Arthur and Fort William. Retail department store offering executive and personnel supervisor career training for young men and women.

Advertisement, 1961

1966, Lion's Roar

Advertised in the Lion's Roar (1966), p. 164, with the address printed as Port Arthur, Intercity. A department store with multiple locations.

1964, Lakehead Teachers' College Yearbook

Advertised in the Lakehead Teachers' College Yearbook (1964), scan page 90, with the address printed as Fort William - Port Arthur - Inter-City. A retail store chain serving the Lakehead area with three locations.

Advertisement, 1964

1965, Lakehead Teachers' College Yearbook

Advertised in the Lakehead Teachers' College Yearbook (1965), scan page 82, with the address printed as Fort William - Port Arthur - Inter-City. A retail department store chain with three locations serving the Lakehead area.

Advertisement, 1965

1968, The Key

Advertised in The Key (1968), scan page 88, with the address printed as 214 Arthur Street, Port Arthur. A retail department store offering general merchandise.

1969, Reflections

Advertised in the Reflections (1969), scan page 112, with the address printed as 214 Arthur Street, Port Arthur. A retail department store offering compliments to the graduating class.

1954, Nor'Wester

Advertised in the Nor'Wester (1954), p. 85. Retail store known for values.

1955, Nor'Wester

Advertised in the Nor'Wester (1955), p. 46. A retail store known for values.

Thunder Bay stores

An operating Zellers store beside a 'Thunder Bay North' highway sign

A Zellers store in a long brick-faced plaza, seen from across a road and an empty parking lot

A Zellers store at the centre of a strip plaza, seen across a parking lot from a traffic-light intersection

Zellers had five stores in Thunder Bay. They were at the Northwood Mall (Northwood Park Plaza), County Fair Plaza on Dawson Road, the Intercity Shopping Centre, the Thunder Bay Mall on Arthur Street West, and in downtown Port Arthur at St. Paul Street and Red River Road. An earlier store stood on Victoria Avenue in Fort William; its building later housed Pattenick's.

• Northwood Mall: the store operated for about thirty years. Roby's restaurant was in the mall just outside its doors, and a Dollarama later occupied the site. Nancy Harris worked there, and Patrick Rybar worked in its stockroom as a teenager.
• County Fair Plaza: from 1972 to 1975 the store was open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. It was the first job of Katja Joanna Ritchie.
• Auto centres: in the 1970s the County Fair and Northwood stores each had an auto repair centre. After the centres closed, the space became a pop shop.
• Thunder Bay Mall: the store took over a former Kmart. According to a former shopper, it became a Zellers around 1996 and a Walmart in 2012.
• The Thunder Bay stores had in-store restaurants.