JT Swyers General Store Bonavista Newfoundland Labrador

Declared as a heritage building in March of 1996, the J.T. Swyers General Shop in the town of Bonavista in Newfoundland Labrador in Canada is visited by many tourists every year.

The exterior of the J.T. Swyers General Store in the town of Bonavista in Newfoundland Labrador is adorned in a soft yellow color with a brownish/red shade used for the frame of the window and the writing "The Harbour Quarters". Below the window, the J.T. Swyers Co. Ltd. lettering is painted in the same color as the top half of the general store, all which has been restored in 1997. The interior of the general store was also redone as the building was declared as a heritage building in March of 1996.

The building was built in 1910 for a merchant named Philip Templeman who ran his business operations from here. After his death in 1926, the business fell apart and the family sold the buildings to J.T. Swyers. In 1892, Joseph Thomas Swyers opened his store with the business growing which supplied the fisherman having dealings with the French and Labrador fisheries.