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Woodside Square is a shopping mall in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, at the northwest corner of Finch Avenue East and McCowan Road at Sandhurst Circle. The mall is located in the heart of Agincourt, and is one of the well known malls along with the Dragon Centre Mall and Agincourt Mall to be noted as part of "Scarborough's Chinatown."HistoryThe mall opened around the 1970s to 1980s with many anchors. Notable ones at the time included Winners, Zellers, and a Chinese cuisine named "Ruby Chinese Restaurant." The Scarborough Public Library Board also opened the Woodside Square branch in the mall during the mall's early years of operation.The Zellers was closed down and a Dominion store was opened up in its place. It later moved to the other side of the mall as a "Dominion Save-A-Centre" and the old space was converted into a Food Basics.Near the mid-2000s, the McDonald's which had been located inside the mall was rebuilt as a freestanding tenant outside the mall to accommodate with the high level of customers.In 2007, the library began to run out of room for its collection, while coincidentally, the Dominion supermarket was closing down at the mall, as it was being acquired by Metro Inc. This supermarket location ended up not being converted into a Metro, and was renovated to include more retail space. The library was moved here, and a Shopper's Drug Mart was opened in the remaining space attached to the mall.
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