Hillhurst Hardware

Spécialités

Hillhurst Hardware specialises in framing, cribbing and finishing supplies. Repair of electric and pneumatic tools and air compressors.

Historique

Fondé en 1945.

Hillhurst Hardware was started by Abraham Sigler. Abe worked, for a time, as a motion picture projectionist travelling around the small towns in Alberta showing films. He joined the Canadian Air Force during the second world war working as an aircraft mechanic.

After the war Abe settled in Calgary and started Hillhurst Hardware and continued to work as a projectionist in the evenings. The store was soon making money and Abe asked his brother Jack to come to partner up in the store.

In 1951 Abe married Letha, a widow with two teenage daughters, Connie and Pat. Pat began working at Hillhurst when Abe and Jack both wanted to retire and in 1973 Pat and her husband Ralph bought the store.

Pat and Ralph ran the store for 27 years. Their only son, Phil, began working in the store at an early age. In 1985 Phil got married to Jacqueline and in 2000, when Pat and Ralph wanted to retire, Phil and Jackie bought the store. They are the third generation owners of Hillhurst Hardware.

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Phil L.

Gérant de commerce

Phil’s been working in some form or another at Hillhurst Hardware since childhood.