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After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment
After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment

After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment

Date10 July 1944
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  • After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment. Here she's getting herself a cooling drink.
  • After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment
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Original Toronto Star caption: After shift hours from her work at General Engineering, Scarboro, Hilda Reid spends time at her plot in the plant's big allotment. Here she's getting herself a cooling drink. Published in Toronto Daily Star, 10 July 1944, page 4.||The 364 acre Geco complex extended South from Eglinton Avenue East to present-day Hymus Road, between Warden Avenue and Birchmount Road, and consisted of 172 buildings. (43.724781, -79.282701)
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      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018940F
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