Find a quiet place to browse through the pages of this 1897 T. Eaton Co. Christmas catalogue, imaging what your ancestors may have desired.
The T. Eaton Company was once the largest department store in Canada. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, a Presbyterian Ulster Scot from what is now Northern Ireland. Hard to imagine the store went bankrupt and closed in 1999.
Christmas catalogue 1897, T. Eaton Co. Limited, page 1, Toronto. Partial image of digitized page on Internet Archive, https://archive.org/stream/canadasgreatests00toro#page/n3/mode/2up.
You will also find a collection of Eaton’s catalogues, from 1887 to 1975, on Library and Archives Canada’s website.
Thanks to @mdiane_rogers for retweeting this from Century Past History @lienhart85.
