Inception
In 1949, Jack Charles Cooper, a former leather goods buyer for the Eaton's department store, and partner Cecil Weeks, a cousin of General Leather Goods owner R. H. Cameron, bought General Leather Goods from Cameron, who had founded the company in 1905, and was 78-years-old at the time. (Cooper had joined the company of 15 employees in 1932 after admiring the quality of the company's products.) The company was re-styled as Cooper Weeks. On June 15, 1971, the company was renamed Cooper of Canada.
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