Both flagship stores in the Canadian Prairies were announced to be closing permanently in the aftermath of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The 1926-built Winnipeg store on Portage Avenue was valued $0 by Cushman & Wakefield in 2019, citing the existence of nearby, newer commercial real estate properties. The Edmonton store on Jasper Avenue was built in 1939 on land that had been occupied by Hudson's Bay Company since 1893. It closed in 1995, two years after another The Bay store opened as an anchor tenant of the Edmonton City Centre. The latter eventually relocated to the former Eaton's store of the same shopping mall in 2002. Consequently, at , it is the smallest Hudson's Bay flagship.