I recently acquired a set of 50 stereoviews featuring scenes from or related to Eaton's Winnipeg department store. While undated, they appear to me to date from either 1909 or 1910 (Eaton's had expanded from 5 to 7 floors at that time, with the eighth floor still to be added). Thus the store would have been only about 4 years old. Of particular interest are photos of the store's displays and of the behind the scenes departments, such as the printing department, jewelry manufacturing section, harness-making section and hundreds of people involved in processing orders for the mail-order division. Somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 people were working at Eaton's at the time. The interior shots (of the store; the factories were in what is now Cityplace) look familiar, with the pillars and the pressed-tin ceiling that endured to the bitter end. The sprinkler system, which looks like the system that remained in place, was a marvel of its time, being fed by a 150,000 gallon water tank on the roof.
Here are a few of the shots (stereoscopic of course):
There are also a number of street shots. This is from the roof of Eaton's looking east. Note the new, yet to be expanded Grain Exchange Building and the half-finished dome of the Bank of Nova Scotia.