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At the General Engineering Co

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At the General Engineering Co

Date1 June 1944

Names

General Engineering Company (Canada) (subject)

James, Norman (photographer)

Miller, Margaret (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: At the General Engineering Co. plant at Scarboro and the Defence Industries Ltd. plant at Ajax, 3,400 women workers are needed to help make shells so that the guns can be kept in action. Margaret Miller, fuse maker at General Engineering, asks for help to fill the gaps in the line - to keep the guns supplied. Published in Toronto Daily Star, 29 June 1944, page 17, with article ''Normandy looks to Geco, Ajax for barrage shells: 3,400 women needed now to keep cannon firing''.||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_0019034F

Country:Canada

City, town or township:Toronto

Neighbourhood:Clairlea-Golden Mile

Province or state:Ontario

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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(...)

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Patricia is the youngest of the Lamarche sisters at the plant

1 March 1943

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''The Stewart Girls'' as they are known at the plant, look over a shell which they helped make

8 March 1943

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Filled fuses by the thousands are packed daily in this plant

7 January 1942

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7/13/1940