Fire at Metcalf Foods
Description
- Creator
- Unknown
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Negatives
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white negative of a photograph of a fire in the main building of Metcalf Foods in Whitby which took place in June 1942. There is a large crowd of people watching the burning building. The photograph is slightly out of focus.
- Notes
- Metcalf Foods was a cannery located on the west side of Brock Street just south of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was built in 1936. In 1943 it was sold to Stokely Van Camp. The cannery closed in 1990.
- Date of Original
- 27 June 1942
- Date Of Event
- 27 June 1942
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 12cm
Image Height: 10cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 08-005-030
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8875010900454 Longitude: -78.9453506469727
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Whitby Archives
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
Website:
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