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Teacher becomes pupil in war plant
Teacher becomes pupil in war plant

Teacher becomes pupil in war plant

Date6 July 1944
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Original Toronto Star caption: Teacher becomes pupil in war plant: Greta Huffman, teacher at Roden public school, gets a lesson in fuse-filling from Doris Frost, supervisor at General Engineering. Greta is one of 400 school teachers who are spending the summer helping to speed up the production of shells for the invading armies. Published in Toronto Daily Star, 5 July 1944, page 17, with article ''Ontario school teachers like new Geco war jobs''.||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)
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyNeighbourhoodClairlea-Golden Mile
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0018972F
Miss Gay Park of Windsor is one of the 350 Ontario school teachers who have volunteered to work during their summer vacation at General Engineering Co(...)
Miss Gay Park of Windsor is one of the 350 Ontario school teachers who have volunteered to work during their summer vacation at General Engineering Co(...)
General Engineering Company (Canada)
2 July 1943
Patricia is the youngest of the Lamarche sisters at the plant
Patricia is the youngest of the Lamarche sisters at the plant
General Engineering Company (Canada)
1 March 1943
After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment
After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment
General Engineering Company (Canada)
10 July 1944
''The Stewart Girls'' as they are known at the plant, look over a shell which they helped make
''The Stewart Girls'' as they are known at the plant, look over a shell which they helped make
General Engineering Company (Canada)
8 March 1943
Gauging fuse(...)
Gauging fuse(...)
General Engineering Company (Canada)
10 January 1942
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(...)
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(...)
General Engineering Company (Canada)
4 July 1944
Miss Bussell and Miss Cumberland try aiming the gun
Miss Bussell and Miss Cumberland try aiming the gun
General Engineering Company (Canada)
30 June 1944
Big 3.7-Inch anti-aircraft guns, built at Peterboro, are dependent on fuses from the General Engineering Co
Big 3.7-Inch anti-aircraft guns, built at Peterboro, are dependent on fuses from the General Engineering Co
Carroll, Betty
30 June 1944
At the General Engineering Co
At the General Engineering Co
General Engineering Company (Canada)
1 June 1944
Filled fuses by the thousands are packed daily in this plant
Filled fuses by the thousands are packed daily in this plant
General Engineering Company (Canada)
7 January 1942
Women in the production of munitions in Canada
Women in the production of munitions in Canada
Canada. Imperial Munitions Board
1916
Shop talk is a new marriage to the girls who are training at Peterboro to become gun and gun-carriage inspectors
Shop talk is a new marriage to the girls who are training at Peterboro to become gun and gun-carriage inspectors
James, Norman
3/7/1942