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Patricia is the youngest of the Lamarche sisters at the plant

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Patricia is the youngest of the Lamarche sisters at the plant

Date3/1/1943

Names

General Engineering Company (Canada) (subject)

James, Norman (photographer)

Lamarche, Patricia (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Patricia is the youngest of the Lamarche sisters at the plant. The sisters ran a restaurant nearby before going to work in the plant. Published in Toronto Daily Star, 3 March, 1943, page 19, with article ''Dad And Five Daughters Help Turn Out The Tools Of War While Son Fights''.||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)

Subject

Equipment and supplies

Weapons industry

World War, 1939-1945

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)

Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018969F

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