lenaitch
Senior Member
Are the escalators just access or is it two-floor? I can't remember the last time I saw a two-floor CTC. It actually looks pretty good in the warehouse/exposed concrete style.
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Canadian Tire
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SunriseChampion
Senior Member
Have you been upstairs at the Davenport location? I almost duck down going into the back there.
Johnny Au
Senior Member
You should visit the one at the Bay and Dundas location or the Lawrence and Allen location. Both are two-floor Canadian Tire stores.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Young and Davenport is three floors. Automotive on ground floor, main store on first floor and seasonal on second or mezzanine floor.
Tuscani01
Senior Member
SunriseChampion
Senior Member
Yes, an underground, a ground, and an upstairs.
Though, hold on.....I've never actually been to the Young and Davenport.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
The store is split grade, so Automotive isn’t underground. Yes, it’s below Yonge St., but it’s at grade below.Yes, an underground, a ground, and an upstairs.
Though, hold on.....I've never actually been to the Young and Davenport.
SunriseChampion
Senior Member
Ok, not sure why you're so up on this, but I'm sure we all know what upstairs at the Davenport location means.
Never mind, it's not nearly this important.
Never mind, it's not nearly this important.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
What happened to the Canadian Tire driving school? I‘m all set to book my kids this summer into driving classes and I see the place at Leslie St. is gone. What’s up CTC? Did you give up on driving already?
marketingmag.ca
Canadian Tire launching driving school to bring added value
Parallel parking, three-point turns, winter driving: bring it on. Canadian Tire is adding another pillar to its automotive parts and service business with a new venture called the Canadian Tire Drivers Academy. It is launching as a pilot project in Toronto in August, with two other Southern...
marketingmag.ca
Tuscani01
Senior Member
Yup. Shut down last year.
Richard White
Senior Member
Not surprising. Driving school is expensive, they probably did not make much money off it.
When I took driving lessons in 2006 it was 300 dollars but now it is 3-4 times that.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Shame. I don’t want to send my daughter to some fly by night driving school, like I used in the late 1980s. I think I’ll go with Young Drivers in Yorkville, https://www.yd.com/locations/on/toronto-downtown
I really don’t care what it costs and was ready to give Canadian Tire the $3,000 or whatever to train my two teenagers.
Richard White
Senior Member
Peters is not bad either. I know alot of people who went with them.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
They weren’t well regarded here.
One Toronto woman’s driving-school nightmare – WHEELS.ca
By Kenyon Wallace / Toronto Star Staff Reporter Samantha Farr was in the midst of her first driving lesson with Peter’s Driving Academy in Scarborough, when her instructor told her....
www.wheels.ca
Truly, I’d like to find a female driving instructor with clearly spoken English. Driving schools seem to pull from the same pool of incomprehensible, discourteous and aggressive drivers as taxis, often from cultural and religious backgrounds where women are not treated fairly, and I wouldn’t trust them with my or anyone’s daughter. That’s why Canadian Tire appealed to me whatever the price, as I assumed their drivers would be highly vetted and the school ran professionally.
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lenaitch
Senior Member
Whoever you go with, check to make sure they are approved by the MTO (listed on their website). Interesting that a company named "Peters" does not appear under Toronto, although they might have a different corporate name or be registered under an adjoining municipality. Agree that Young Drivers is a good bet - worked for me oh so many moons ago. I notice that CAA recently got out of the game.