Carlton Cards

{{Short description|Canadian greeting card company}}

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| name = Carlton Cards

| logo = Carlton Cards logo.svg

| type = Subsidiary

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| foundation = {{start date and age|1920}}

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| location = Mississauga, Ontario, Canada{{Cite web|url=http://www.carltoncards.ca/aboutus/contactus.html|title = Carlton Cards Limited}}

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| industry = Greeting cards

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| services = Greeting cards

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| parent = American Greetings

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| homepage = [http://www.carltoncards.ca/ official website]

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Carlton Cards Limited ({{langx|fr|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;{{cite press release |date=17 April 2009 |title=American Greetings Sells Retail Stores to Schurman Fine Papers and Purchases Papyrus Brand |location=Cleveland |publisher=American Greetings |agency=Canada NewsWire}} (accessed via ProQuest) the stores closed in 2020.{{cite news |last1=Jackson |first1=Hannah |title=Carlton Cards, Papyrus stores in North America to close within weeks |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6446930/carlton-cards-papyrus-stores-closing/ |accessdate=23 January 2020 |work=Global News |date=22 January 2020 |location=Toronto ON}} The closure does not impact the 6000 Canadian retail locations that sell Carlton Cards products.

Carlton Cards was founded by Hubert Harry Harshman in Toronto, Ontario, in 1920. By 1933, it became incorporated. In 1956, Carlton Cards was purchased by American Greetings. Little is known about Harshman, but he did file a patent for card display with United States Patent Office in 1928.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_4UtxDGZrQC&q=harry+harshman&pg=PA625|title=Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office|last=Office|first=United States Patent|date=1930|publisher=The Office|language=en}}

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| footer = Carlton Cards at Hillcrest Mall in 2014 (left) and the same store during a store closing sale in 2020 (right).

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| image1 = HillcrestCarltonCards.JPG

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Cartes Carlton.JPG|{{center|In Central Station (Montreal)}}