title: Fairway Markets
text: # Fairway Markets
  
  Fairway Markets is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
  
  The ten store chain was founded by Don Yuen in 1963 and employs over 700. The chain is a low cost grocery store with a significant emphasis on ethnic foods.
  
  ## Founder
  
  Don Yuen was born in China, where his family had operated a grocer store for three generations and came to Canada in 1949 after the family lost their business to communism. Yuen worked at his uncle's store and at a sawmill before embarking on his own store in 1963. Yuen is now Fairway Markets' President.
  
  ## Locations
  
  Greater Victoria
  
  * 272 Gorge Road West, Saanich, BC - original store from 1963
  * 1521 McKenzie Ave, Saanich, BC
  * 101-2187 Athlone Court, Oak Bay, BC
  * 2635 Quadra St, Victoria, BC - former Safeway location
  * 3651 Shelbourne St, Saanich, BC
  
  Nanaimo
  
  * 103-4750 Rutherford Road, Nanaimo, BC
  
  Saanich Peninsula
  
  * 7108 West Saanich Road, Brentwood, BC
  * 2531 Beacon Ave, Sidney, BC
  
  West Shore
  
  * 2945 Jacklin Road, Langford, BC
  * 772 Goldstream Ave, Langford, BC - former Western Foods location
  