Fairway Markets
# Fairway Markets

Fairway Markets is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

The ten store chain was founded by Don Yuen in 1963 and employs over 700. The chain is a low cost grocery store with a significant emphasis on ethnic foods.

## Founder

Don Yuen was born in China, where his family had operated a grocer 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. Yuen is now Fairway Markets' President.

## Locations

Greater Victoria

* 272 Gorge Road West, Saanich, BC - original store from 1963
* 1521 McKenzie Ave, Saanich, BC
* 101-2187 Athlone Court, Oak Bay, BC
* 2635 Quadra St, Victoria, BC - former Safeway location
* 3651 Shelbourne St, Saanich, BC

Nanaimo

* 103-4750 Rutherford Road, Nanaimo, BC

Saanich Peninsula

* 7108 West Saanich Road, Brentwood, BC
* 2531 Beacon Ave, Sidney, BC

West Shore

* 2945 Jacklin Road, Langford, BC
* 772 Goldstream Ave, Langford, BC - former Western Foods location
