Fairway Markets [1] is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Stores are located in Brentwood Bay, Langford, Nanaimo, Oak Bay, Saanich (3), Sidney, and Victoria. [2]
The nine-store chain was founded by Don Yuen [3] in 1963 and employs over 700. [4]
Founder and President Don Yuen was born in China, where his family had operated a grocery store for three generations and came to Canada in 1949 after the family lost their business to communism. [5] Yuen worked at his uncle's store and at a sawmill before embarking on his own store in 1963.