Eaton's Seeks Bankruptcy Protection
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 10, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
All had gathered to pay their last respects to Signy Eaton, the matriarch of the Eaton clan, widow of John David who had led the family's mighty retail chain in the halcyon days of the 1950s and 1960s, when the company controlled half of the country's department store sales.