Canadian Tire Franchise Sends Goods and Equipment to Atlantic Canada in Preparation for Hurricane Earl

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited
Published: September 7th, 2010

TORONTO /CNW/ - Today, Canadian Tire sent trailers full of household goods and emergency supplies to meet demand in Eastern Canada as residents prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Earl.

Additional supplies include more than 140 household generators, 300 gasoline cans, emergency heat kits and blankets, lanterns, firelogs and fuel as well as hundreds of flashlights and batteries. All of these products are manufactured for their dependability and durability.

"When Canadians find themselves in need of emergency goods and supplies, Canadian Tire is the one-stop-shop where they can get all the essentials to help prepare for any emergency," said Duncan Fulton, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Canadian Tire. "Having a world-class supply chain and dealer distribution network that reaches across the country enables Canadian Tire to act quickly to support our communities."

Canadian Tire has 24 dealer stores in Atlantic Canada:

• 30 Lamont Terrace Dartmouth NS
• 16 New Pine Grove Road, RR 2 Bridgewater NS
• 173 Main Street Shediac NS
• 796 Sackville Drive Lower Sackville NS
• 24 Forest Hill Parkway Dartmouth NS
• 49 Spar Road Sydney NS
• 10 Radcliffe Drive, Clayton Park W Halifax NS
• 130 Reserve Street Glace Bay NS
• 16 Dentith Road Halifax NS
• 112 Warwick Street Digby NS
• 625 Reeves Street, PO Box 580 Port Hawkesbury NS
• 5130 St. Margarets Bay Road Upper Tantallon NS
• Fundy Trail Mall, 90 Robie St. /ext. Truro NS
• 9212 Commercial Street New Minas NS
• 133 Church Street Antigonish Mall Antigonish NS
• 150 Damascus Road Bedford NS
• 689 Westville Road New Glasgow NS
• 120 Starr's Road Yarmouth NS
• 21 Blowers Street North Sydney NS
• 152 South Albion Street Amherst NS
• 720 Central Avenue, Box 1360 Greenwood NS
• 6203 Quinpool Road Halifax NS
• 665 University Avenue Charlottetown PEI
• 474 Granville St. Summerside PEI

ABOUT CANADIAN TIRE

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (TSX: CTC.a, CTC) is one of Canada's most shopped general retailers with 482 Canadian Tire stores across the country. Our core retail and automotive operation is strengthened by PartSource, an automotive parts speciality chain; Canadian Tire Petroleum, one of the country's largest independent retailers of gasoline; Mark's, under the banner "Clothes That Work," a leading retailer of men's, women's and work apparel; and Canadian Tire Financial Services, which has issued approximately five million Canadian Tire MasterCard credit cards. More than 58,000 Canadians work across Canadian Tire's organization from coast-to-coast in the enterprise's retail, financial services and petroleum businesses.