Old A&P store located in Bellville, Ontario. Photo source: Wikipedia Today on our new Lost Retail in the GTA series, I'll be talking briefly about the history of the former American supermarket chain, A&P's Canadian operations. A&P operated stores under various banners, including A&P, Dominion, and discount store, Food Basics, in Canada until 2005, selling their Canadian operations to Metro, whom rebranded most of the stores as Metro in 2008. History of A&P Canada A&P started their Canadian operations in 1927, opening their first store in Canada in Montreal. They used to also have stores in Ontario and Quebec, but in 1984, they decided to pull out of the Quebec market. In 1985, they acquired the Dominion chain of stores and sold their stores outside of Ontario to various buyers.A&P also purchased the Miracle Food Mart and Ultra Food Mart chains in 1989, and The Barn Markets chain, in 1995. Also that same year, A&P opened it...