Hudson's Bay flagship store

The Hudson's Bay flagship store (originally the Simpson's flagship store) is a department store building on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was designed by the Burke and Horwood architecture firm for Robert Simpson, and opened in 1896; it replaced the first store on the grounds founded in 1894, which burned down in 1895. It was the flagship store of the Simpsons department store chain, was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1978, and was converted to The Bay flagship store in 1991. The store was rebranded to Hudson's Bay in 2013, and sub-divided to include the Saks Fifth Avenue Canadian flagship store in 2016. The previous Hudson's Bay flagship store was located several blocks north at the Hudson's Bay Centre on Bloor Street East, and existed alongside the Yonge and Queen flagship store until 2022.

The Hudson's Bay flagship store spanned 70,000 square metres (750,000 sq ft) of selling space, making it one of the largest department stores in Canada. HBC sold the building to Cadillac Fairview and officially became part of the Toronto Eaton Centre in 2014, although the two buildings have been connected by skybridge since the 1970s. The companies maintain a leaseback agreement through 2039, and the store was one of six locations the spared from the creditor protection and liquidation filed by HBC in March 2025. However, on April 23, 2025 due to court rulings deeming it "low probability" to find a buyer to keep the remaining six stores afloat, HBC announced the liquidation of all Hudson's Bay stores, including the Hudson's Bay flagship store, starting on April 25, 2025.The store officially closed on June 1, 2025.