La Maison Simons has opened its first store in Toronto. Simons is 185 years old but has taken such a methodical expansion outside its home province of Quebec that it only counted 17 stores until now.

Canadian department store chain Simons is boldly eschewing the doom-and-gloom narrative that's dominated the shopping mall landscape in the GTA

The two-level, 118,000-square-foot fashion space marks the second Greater Toronto Area location and the third in Ontario for Canada’s oldest private, family-owned retailer, with another store set to o