Carlton Cards Limited (french: Cartes Carlton Limitée) is a greeting card company in Canada. Its lines of cards include Carlton, Gibson and Tender Thoughts. It also distributes the American Greetings line of cards in Canada. Since 2009, "Carlton Card Retail" has been owned by Schurman Retail Group, its wholesale division remaining with

American Greetings American Greetings Corporation is a privately owned American company and is the world's second largest greeting card producer behind Hallmark Cards. Based in Westlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, the company sells paper greeting cards, electroni ...

; the stores are set to close in 2020. The closure does not impact the 6000 Canadian retail locations that sell Carlton Cards products. Carlton Cards was founded by Hubert Harry Harshman in

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, in 1920. By 1933, it became incorporated. In 1956, Carlton Cards was purchased by

. Little is known about Harshman, but he did file a patent for card display with

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in 1928. Cartes Carlton.JPG,

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Hubert Harry Harshman
on FamilySearch American Greetings Publishing companies established in 1920 Greeting cards 1920 establishments in Ontario Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020