The New Student's Reference Work/Eaton, Timothy

Eaton, Timothy, an eminent merchant of Toronto, Canada.  Receiving his education and business training in the north of Ireland, he came to Canada in 1857, and after a brief experience in a country village established himself in Toronto.  He was a man of integrity and great energy and personal force were potent factors in his success.  He conducted his business on lines of absolute honesty and fairness to his customers, giving value in price and quality of goods, dealt on a cash basis, cut out middle-men and in all respects adopted modern methods.  He thus not only built up for himself a business reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but also wrought a revolution in the entire retail business of the country.  Few men have accomplished as much for the commercial life of Canada as this young immigrant of 1857.  The immense business he founded is now successfully continued at Toronto, Winnipeg and other places by his son, John C. Eaton.