History
Birks and Mayors traces its origins to the opening by Henry Birks of a small jewellery shop in Montreal in 1879.
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“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
—Attributed to Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929)
““And now this is the way in which the history of your former life has reached my ears!” As he said this he held out in his hand the fatal letter.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)