BANGOR (AP) – Hundreds of Irving Oil convenience stores will get a new name and a new look as part of a deal between Irving Oil and a Quebec-based company.

Irving, based in Saint John, New Brunswick, will lease 252 of its Blue Canoe, Maineway and Big Stop convenience stores in New England and Atlantic Canada to Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. of Laval, Quebec.

Irving will continue to supply petroleum products to the sites, and the fuel pumps and canopies will remain Irving-branded. The stores will operate under Couche-Tard’s red, white and blue signs and its logo of a red, winking owl. Financial arrangements were not disclosed.

The deal involves 124 stores in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont, with the other 128 in Canada. The transaction is expected to close in July.

Couche-Tard means “night owl” in French.