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I've had good results with Maison d'Astronomie in Montreal.

As for buying a used telelscope, it takes a lot of knowledge to
evaluate a used telescope. Unless you have an experienced friend to
help you, I suggest not buying used.

Instead, I suggest joining the Ottawa Centre of the Royal
Astronomical Society because they have a telescope lending library.
They have several small telesclopes, of different types, that they
rent to members for $10 a month. That's the cheapest way to try out
several telescopes so see what you like.

If covid ever ends and local clubs resume public star parties (our
word for inviting the public to look through our telescopes), I
suggest attending such and looking through every scope to help you
decide what you want. There are many kinds of telescope and one
telescope cannot do it all. And the price range is crazy from
CAD$10.00 to US$150,000.00. That that's just the ones I could order
from canada over the web.
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ps. Too bad about Focus. I hope Tristan lands in a good place. He was
always helpful and respectful to his customers. I've heard that the
bankrupcy of Focus was triggered by the onwer's (Kent's) dementia. But
consider that to be an unverfied rumour.