Private company
Grocery chain on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
Fairway Markets is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Stores are located in Brentwood Bay, Langford, Nanaimo, Oak Bay, Saanich (3), Sidney, and Victoria.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Fairway Markets is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.2
Founder and President Don Yuen was born in China, where his family had operated a grocery store for three generations and came to Canada in 1949 after the family lost their business to communism. Yuen worked at his uncle's store and at a sawmill before embarking on his own store in 1963.
From Wikipedia’s article on Fairway Markets, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
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