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(...)

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)