This is one of the few brick and mortar Danier stores left. Actually, this location opened after all the Danier locations closed, so it's not an original location that survived the closures, it's a new location.
Once upon a time, Danier had many locations across Canada, they were in most major malls. Then one day, all the locations closed without much fanfare. Then one quietly popped up in Oshawa - imagine my surprise as I was milling around at the Oshawa Centre and spotted a Danier store! Then one day, stores started popping up again. They now have 12 across Canada. Much less than in the past (around 80). Anyway, this one at Bayshore Shopping Centre is the only Danier store in Ottawa. I'm still not sure what the story was/is with them, but I'm glad to have a Danier store to shop at again.
Danier sells leather goods. They sell mostly leather jackets (men's and women's), purses, wallets, gloves, and belts. They also sell non-leather goods, like wool sweaters.
I have several Danier jackets and they have nice styles and all sorts of colours beyond black and brown. I have a super cute pink leather jacket from them, lol. Their sizes run large, a small there fits a size 6-8. So I'm an XXXS (3XS), which sounds freakishly small, but it's not, it's like a size 0-2.
I'm glad to see Danier back in business in Ottawa :) read more