Canadian Tire Sends Goods and Equipment to Atlantic Canada in Preparation for
Hurricane Earl

TORONTO, Sept. 3 /CNW/ - Today, Canadian Tire sent trailers full of household goods and emergency supplies to meet demand in Eastern Canada as residents prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Earl.

Additional supplies include more than 140 household generators, 300 gasoline cans, emergency heat kits and blankets, lanterns, firelogs and fuel as well as hundreds of flashlights and batteries. All of these products are manufactured for their dependability and durability.

"When Canadians find themselves in need of emergency goods and supplies, Canadian Tire is the one-stop-shop where they can get all the essentials to help prepare for any emergency," said Duncan Fulton, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Canadian Tire. "Having a world-class supply chain and dealer distribution network that reaches across the country enables Canadian Tire to act quickly to support our communities."

Canadian Tire has 24 dealer stores in Atlantic Canada:

30 Lamont Terrace	Dartmouth	NS
16 New Pine Grove Road, RR 2	Bridgewater	NS
173 Main Street	Shediac	NS
796 Sackville Drive	Lower Sackville	NS
24 Forest Hill Parkway	Dartmouth	NS
49 Spar Road	Sydney	NS
10 Radcliffe Drive, Clayton Park W	Halifax	NS
130 Reserve Street	Glace Bay	NS
16 Dentith Road	Halifax	NS
112 Warwick Street	Digby	NS
625 Reeves Street, PO Box 580	Port Hawkesbury	NS
5130 St. Margarets Bay Road	Upper Tantallon	NS
Fundy Trail Mall, 90 Robie St. /ext.	Truro	NS
9212 Commercial Street	New Minas	NS
133 Church Street Antigonish Mall	Antigonish	NS
150 Damascus Road	Bedford	NS
689 Westville Road	New Glasgow	NS
120 Starr's Road	Yarmouth	NS
21 Blowers Street	North Sydney	NS
152 South Albion Street	Amherst	NS
720 Central Avenue, Box 1360	Greenwood	NS
6203 Quinpool Road	Halifax	NS
665 University Avenue	Charlottetown	PEI
474 Granville St.	Summerside	PEI

ABOUT CANADIAN TIRE

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (TSX: CTC.a, CTC) is one of Canada's most shopped general retailers with 482 Canadian Tire stores across the country. Our core retail and automotive operation is strengthened by PartSource, an automotive parts speciality chain; Canadian Tire Petroleum, one of the country's largest independent retailers of gasoline; Mark's, under the banner "Clothes That Work," a leading retailer of men's, women's and work apparel; and Canadian Tire Financial Services, which has issued approximately five million Canadian Tire MasterCard credit cards. More than 58,000 Canadians work across Canadian Tire's organization from coast-to-coast in the enterprise's retail, financial services and petroleum businesses.

For further information:

Liz Hamilton, Associate Vice President, Communications
416-544-6186
Email: [email protected]