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Mary's on Wellington
About Mary's on Wellington
An owner-run clothing shop, on the downtown side of the Hope Slough.
Downtown Chilliwack was the whole of the city's retail long before the malls, and its shape still comes from the junction where Yale Road, Young Road and Wellington Avenue meet. It still counts more than 350 businesses across banks, restaurants, clinics, pharmacies and small independent retail, which is a lot for a core that could easily have been hollowed out by the strips to the south. A shop that puts Wellington in its name is placing itself firmly in the older half of the city's retail.
Clothing is one of the categories where the split between the two Chilliwacks shows most clearly. Nearly all of the national clothing retail in the city is out at Cottonwood Centre and Eagle Landing, and none of it appears in this directory. What is left is the independent layer: boutiques in the downtown blocks and in District 1881, a strong consignment and second-hand trade, western and workwear suppliers that exist because so much of the city works outdoors or on a farm, and a handful of specialists in Sardis. It is a much shorter list, and almost every shop on it is one where the owner is behind the counter.
No street number, phone or website is recorded here, only the postal code, which places the shop on the downtown side of the Hope Slough. That is enough to find the right few blocks and not enough to plan a trip around. Hours in this part of the trade are set shop by shop, and none are recorded here. Stock is the same problem in a different form: what an owner-run clothing shop carries is its own decision and it changes. Nothing in that is a criticism of the shop; it is a description of what is and is not known. Anyone making a special journey is better off treating this as a pointer and finding the rest another way.
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In the Chilliwack Proper neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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