Maitland general store marks 185th birthday, looks ahead to bicentennial [Video]

Ninety-three year old Albert Annand has shopped at Frieze and Roy in Maitland, N.S., throughout his life, but the store is about double his age. 

The business, considered by many as Canada’s oldest general store, is celebrating 185 years of selling goods in the village at the mouth of the Shubenacadie River near Cobequid Bay. 

“I’d come down for a little piece of candy on a stick,” said Annand. “I think they were five cents.”

Troy Robertson, owner of Frieze and Roy, said restoring the building over the past decade has helped it continue to be a gathering point for the community.

“This place was falling apart,” Robertson said. “There was snow blowing into the back walls. The floors were falling apart. There was water damage.” 

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