John Forsyth Company Limited, Waterloo, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Exterior of the building located at Albert and Dupont Streets (former Market Hotel) used to manufacture shirts, underwear and pajamas.
- Notes
- Company started in 1903 as a distributor of pins, thread, buttons, celluloid collars and other items, then began selling shirts and ties as well as other clothing items and purchased the Star Whitewear building at Duke and Young streets in Kitchener in 1908.
In 1914 it purchased the William Kress Company on King Street south, and in 1917 bought the former Market Hotel at Albert and Dupont Streets to make pajamas and underwear.
Company sold in 1973. This factory was closed in 1996 and production moved to Cambridge. - Dimensions
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Width: 13 cm
Height: 9 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 13cm
Image Height: 9cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- II 10 9
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.466025 Longitude: -80.523434
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
