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Snyder's Limited Furniture Company, Waterloo, Ontario

Description

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Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

Group photograph of fifteen employees of Snyder's Limited Furniture Company with a sofa and two chairs manufactured by the company.

Front row, left to right: Buster McDonald (seated); John Snyder; Murray Snyder; Clayton H. Snyer; Leonard Sharpe; James Snyder; W.H. Smith (seated).

Back row, left to right: Ted Lewis; Gerry Corbett; David Eby; Arthur Herring; Homer Watson; Edward Keenan; Jack Cash; Mickey McQuire.

Notes

Company began as Snyder, Roos Upholstering Company in 1885 on King Street just south of Erb Street. In 1903 the founders, Herbert Maplin Snyder and his brother Alfred Hartman, and their two sisters and Henry W. Roos formed Snyder Brothers Upholstering Company Limited. Plant at 97-101 King Street South was opened in 1908. Snyder's purchased the Snider Furniture Company at 129 King Street south in 1916. In 1960 the plant was moved to Weber Street in Waterloo, this building was demolished and became part of the site of Waterloo Town Square. In 1966 James C. Snyder acquired the upholstering part of the company calling it James C. Snyder Limited with operations in Kitchener. This company closed in 2004.

Date of Original

[ca. 192-]

Date Of Event

[ca. 192-]

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