Geco fuse-maker Lotte Walsh and fireman David Leslie, The biggest industrial fire department in Canada, and one of the biggest of any kind in the prov(...)
Date7/4/1944
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General Engineering Company (Canada)
(subject)
James, Norman
(photographer)
Leslie, David
(subject)
Toronto Star (Firm)
(publisher)
Walsh, Lotte
(subject)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Geco fuse-maker Lotte Walsh and fireman David Leslie; The biggest industrial fire department in Canada, and one of the biggest of any kind in the province, has never had a fire it couldn't put out with a bucket of sand. Published in Toronto Daily Star, 4 July 1944, page 15, with article ''Geco, Ajax need girls to put kick in shells''.||The 364 acre Geco complex extended South from Eglinton Avenue East to present-day Hymus Road, between Warden Avenue and Birchmount Road, and consisted of 172 buildings. (43.724781, -79.282701)
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018954F
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