Esso Service Station is gone after decades on Evans Avenue site. Photos by Susanna Basheir.
After decades of operation the Esso Service station on Evans Avenue in Alderwood is gone.
All the pumps have been removed from the property and there is barely a trace of the many years the station stood at 540 Evans Avenue.
The station was popular with Alderwood residents since it was in the community and the prices were affordable.
The last days of the Esso station surrounded by construction fence.
Community members are suggesting that the property will soon be the site of condos since it is close to Highway 27 and The Gardiner Expressway and Sherway Gardens, which is seeking to build high rise condo towers in its parking lot.
The Esso website hasn’t been updated for months and has a notice stating that the station is permanently closed.
The station in its prime when business was thriving.
The Esso chain in Canada has been up for sale for some time.
Owner Imperial Oil says it has reached deals to sell its remaining 497 Esso retail stations in Canada to five fuel distributors for a total of $2.8 billion.
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is set to buy 279 stations in Ontario and Quebec for nearly $1.69 billion. The company has acquired Esso stations in Quebec and Ontario.
Since 1923 the Esso name and oval brand have been used continuously in 50 countries, including Canada.
In 1907 the first Imperial Oil gas station was opened in Vancouver and it wasn’t until 1970 the self-serves were first opened in Montreal and Toronto.