How it started...

Mouat’s Trading Co. Ltd. has been a retail “trend-setter” for over 100 years, and we are very excited about the continued evolution of this fine company. The original Mouat’s Store opened in Ganges in 1907 when Gilbert Mouat and his mother Jane purchased the Malcolm & Purvis store which was located adjacent to the present main store building. In 1909, Gilbert’s older brother William joined the firm and in 1911 the new store was constructed. Later the youngest brother Gavin joined the firm. Over the years the business grew to include hard goods, groceries, meats, produce, feed grains, lumber, dry goods, petroleum products and many other products and services. In 1912, Mouat’s became a Ford dealer and over the next 30 years sold a great many cars, the storied Model T being the mainstay.