John Forsyth Company Limited, Kitchener, Ontario. Staff
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Staff posing outside the Kitchener factory at 31 Young street.
- 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 31 Young street at Duke street in Kitchener in 1908.
In 1914 it purchased the William Kress Company on King Street south, and in 1916 bought the former Market Hotel, constructed in 1855 at Albert and Dupont Streets, to make pajamas and underwear. Forsyth was purchased by Dylex Ltd. of Toronto in 1973. In 1992, the Kitchener factory closed and the employees moved to Cambridge. The building at 31 Young was put up for sale, but by 2006 the building was in disrepair and was demolished. - Date of Original
- 1951
- Date Of Event
- 1951
- Dimensions
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Width: 20 cm
Height: 22 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 20cm
Image Height: 22cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- JJ 1 20
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4521717990686 Longitude: -80.4915730688476
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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:
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