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Sacred Heart School Boxing Club
The Sacred Heart School Boxing Club was composed, predominantly, of Italian youth. This photo is from 1945.
Canteen Girls Biltmore Hats Strike July 22 1938 Local 82
Women participants in the activities of the 1938 Biltmore Strike.
Contemporary Graffiti on the Side of the Mill Flats
"Remax: Watch Ur Back - The Ward" anti-gentrification graffiti scrawled on the side of the Mill Flats.
Contemporary Mill Flats Graffiti
Anti-gentrification graffiti on the Mill Flats along Cross Street. The graffiti has been taken down since, sometime in the last week or two of March 2013.
Contemporary Mill Flats
The Mill Flats looking toward the building's smoke stack.
Contemporary Photo: Former Guelph Carpet Factory
The former Guelph Carpet Factory on 83 Neeve Street taken from the Neeve Street bridge.
Contemporary View Down Morris Street Toward York Road
On the right hand side of this photo, down Morris Street, closer to York Road is the former Biltmore Hats location.
Employees of Northern Rubber Co. 1921
Photographed inside of the Northern Rubber Company building.
Gilson "Snowbird" Refrigerators, Home Freezers, Washers, Dryers, Ranges
A Gilson Manufacturing Company Sign, Circa 1960.
Gilson Manufacturing Envelope
A letter from Gilson Manufacturing Company from 1941. The envelope has slogans pertaining to their Snowbird refrigerator line and their furnace line. In the post-war era, appliances came to dominate Gilson Manufacturing Company production.
Gilson Manufacturing Present Day View
The lot where Gilson Manufacturing once stood on York Road. Across the lot, you can see Owens Corning constructed in 1951 by Fibreglas Canada and one of the few large scale industrial features still operating in the Ward.