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SEC Company Response from HENRY BIRKS & SONS INC (BGI) (CIK 0001179821) (BGI) — Oct 6, 2005

HENRY BIRKS & SONS INC (BGI) (CIK 0001179821)
Date: Oct. 6, 2005 · CIK: 0001179821 · Accession: 0000909567-05-001521

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File numbers found in text: 333-126936

Date
October 6, 2005
Author
Assistant Director
Form
CORRESP
Company
HENRY BIRKS & SONS INC (BGI) (CIK 0001179821)

Letter

Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance Attention: H. Christopher Owings Assistant Director Henry Birks & Sons Inc. Registration Statement on Form F-4

Dear Mr. Owings:

Pursuant to Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Henry Birks & Sons Inc. (the “Company”) respectfully requests that the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) take such action as is necessary to accelerate the effective date of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form F-4 (File No. 333-126936) (the “Registration Statement”) to 10:00 a.m. on October 11, 2005, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

In making such request, the Company hereby acknowledges the following:

1.

Should the Commission or the staff of the Commission (the “Staff”), acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the Registration Statement effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the Registration Statement.

2.

The action of the Commission or the Staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the Registration Statement effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the Registration Statement.

3.

The Company may not assert Staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceedings initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

Please notify Adam M. Givertz of Shearman & Sterling LLP, the Company’s counsel, at 416-360-5134 of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

Very truly yours,
HENRY BIRKS & SONS INC.

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Henry Birks & Sons Inc.

1240 Phillips Square

Montreal, Quebec

H3B 3H4

October 6, 2005

BY EDGAR AND FACSIMILE

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attention:  H. Christopher Owings

                  Assistant Director

Henry Birks & Sons Inc.

Registration Statement on Form F-4

Dear Mr. Owings:

     Pursuant to Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Henry Birks & Sons Inc.
(the “Company”) respectfully requests that the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) take such action as is necessary to accelerate the effective date of the Company’s
Registration Statement on Form F-4 (File No. 333-126936) (the “Registration Statement”) to 10:00
a.m. on October 11, 2005, or as soon as practicable thereafter.

     In making such request, the Company hereby acknowledges the following:

    1.

    Should the Commission or the staff of the Commission (the
“Staff”), acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the Registration
Statement effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action
with respect to the Registration Statement.

    2.

    The action of the Commission or the Staff, acting pursuant to
delegated authority, in declaring the Registration Statement effective, does not
relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy
of the disclosure in the Registration Statement.

    3.

    The Company may not assert Staff comments and the declaration of
effectiveness as a defense in any proceedings initiated by the Commission or any
person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

     Please notify Adam M. Givertz of Shearman & Sterling LLP, the Company’s counsel, at
416-360-5134 of the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

    Very truly yours,

HENRY BIRKS & SONS INC.

    By:
    /s/ Thomas A. Andruskevich

    Name:
    Thomas A. Andruskevich

    Title:
    President and Chief Executive Officer

    cc:

    Pradip Bhaumik

         Securities and Exchange Commission

    Adam M. Givertz

         Shearman & Sterling LLP