2 Bloor East in the context of "Hudson's Bay (department store)"

Hudson's Bay ("the Bay") was a Canadian department store chain that was the flagship brand of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), which is the oldest company in North America, and currently undergoing dissolution. The first department store opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The chain mainly served Western Canada at first, however, achieved a national footprint with the acquisition and conversion of the Freimans, Morgan's, Simpsons, and Woodward's department stores in the latter half of the 20th century.

Its headquarters and flagship store were located at the Hudson's Bay Centre in Toronto from 1974 until relocating its headquarters to the Simpson Tower in 1978, and converting the adjacent Simpsons flagship store into the Bay flagship store in 1991. Historical buildings including the former Henry Morgan Building in Montreal and the Bay Building in Vancouver were also flagship stores for the Bay. The flagship stores in Edmonton, Winnipeg, and the Hudson's Bay Centre store closed in the early 2020s due to the COVID-19 pandemic.