Harry Rosen

On my visit to Pardes Shalom Cemetery in Vaughan, Ontario I visited the family graves of Harry Rosen and “Big and Tall” menswear founder, George Richards. Look in Famous Canadian Graves for their extraordinary stories.

On the first day of winter, I walked through Pardes Shalom Cemetery in Vaughan, Ontario, and visited the grave of Canadian retail icon Harry Rosen. In 1954, with a $500 loan, Harry and his brother Lou opened a 500-square-foot made-to-measure menswear shop on Parliament Street in Toronto. A formative trip to New York soon inspired […]