John Forsyth Company Limited, Kitchener, Ontario. Staff
Description
- Creator
- Ernest Denton, Kitchener, Ontario, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Interior of factory with 8 male staff at their work stations. Possibly pajama production at the factory in the former Market Hotel in Waterloo.
- 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.
Ernest Denton was a photographer in Kitchener between 1919 and 1925. - Dimensions
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Width: 18 cm
Height: 20 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 18cm
Image Height: 20cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- JJ 1 21
- 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
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