History
Cunningham's was established in 1911 when New Westminster native George Cunningham, a druggist formerly employed by the Woodwards department store chain, opened his first store in Vancouver in February that year, at the corner of Denman and Nelson Streets. Cunningham expanded his chain in September 1939 when he acquired the Vancouver Drug Stores chain, nearly tripling the size of the Cunningham's chain from 12 stores to 35.
At its peak, 100 drug stores in British Columbia and Alberta would bear the Cunningham's name. Cunningham himself later became a Vancouver city councillor from 1955 to 1957, and served as chair of the University of British Columbia Board of Governors.
Cunningham died in Palm Springs, California on March 7, 1965 at age 76, and the drug store chain bearing his name was eventually sold to the expanding Shoppers Drug Mart in 1970.
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