Percy Waters Florist
Flower Delivery in Toronto

During the days of horse and carriage in 1911, Percy Waters bought the store at 445 Danforth Ave with his wife Lulu and their four children. Since 1977 Bruce and his family carried on the tradition of a family business.Percy Waters Florist remains a trusted and well respected business in the community and in the City of Toronto and its suburbs. In 1977 Victor himself chose to retire, he was very selective as to who he would sell the business to. He was looking for a person who would care for his business and his customers the way the Waters family always had. The store was bought by Bruce Adamson and his family who owned 2 flower shops and greenhouses. Today Percy Waters Florist sends flowers all over Canada, United States and the rest of the world thanks in part to her efforts.Mrs. Waters son Victor ran the business for many years after his mother retired. She became a regional Director of FTD (Once known as Flourist Telegraph Delivery Association) now known as Florist Transworld Delivery and she was instrumental at bringing this world wide delivery service into Canada. Mrs. Waters proved to be eminently successful. His widow Lulu carried on the business with all the fortitude she could muster with the help of her two sons Russ and Victor. Three or four times a week Percy Waters would have his delivery man hitch up the horse and wagon and set out to receive an express shipment of peonies,geraniums, iris bulbs, seeds and garden rakes down at the old River Station.In 1917 Mr. Percy Waters passed away but not before he had seen his small beginning flourish into a very successful business. Despite mud roads, scarcity of houses and despite the neighbouring merchants who predicted ultimate failure, uncultivated lands, the lack of street cars, Percy Waters pursued his dream.He was the first florist-nurseryman on the Danforth and the first business man to outfit his premises with electric lights. Percy Waters Florist also serves many out of town florists.Percy Waters Flori