AJAX The town ammunition built
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Alot, locals ( not all connected via friends or family ) say there was and still might be in part an underground transport network connecting rail lines in the north, major roads in the middle and lake ontario in the south. Some say storage facilities as well, with vehicles and trains still inside.
Isn't that a little far south for GECO? I believe that the property ended at the rail line about a kilometre north of St. Clair. There are a few tunnels still in existence underneath the Warden/ Eglinton area. Several were re-discovered and "sealed" a couple of years ago during a large water main project in the area. The only original building still in existence is the former "Embers" banquet hall.
The Original Centennial College at 651 Warden was south of st. Clair on the east side. I went there in 1967.
I searched but could only find this one small note.
Centennial College was the first of 22 colleges opened under then-Education Minister (and later Premier) Bill Davis’s plan to establish an alternate post-secondary educational option to university in Ontario. Opened in 1966, Centennial was housed in an old munitions factory on Warden Avenue, with 500 students and 14 programs.
I searched but could only find this one small note.
Centennial College was the first of 22 colleges opened under then-Education Minister (and later Premier) Bill Davis’s plan to establish an alternate post-secondary educational option to university in Ontario. Opened in 1966, Centennial was housed in an old munitions factory on Warden Avenue, with 500 students and 14 programs.
Just a rural part of Pickering Township in 1939 Ajax was built around the newly constructed Defense Industries Ltd Armaments plant.
If you happen to be on Hunt St. just west of Dowty Rd. and look north you will see a long line of yellow painted buildings, just sheds really.
This was the shell filling assembly line and it still stands today. East of Harwood Ave, behind the present City Hall are the old women's dormitories
and some Manager's homes. The streets are named Exeter and Admiral as the town was named after the HMS Ajax that helped defeat the German Pocket Battleship GRAFF SPEE off South America. Today new streets are still named from the crew list of the Ajax.
My Grandmother paid off the mortgage on their house on the filling line here.
I've lived in Ajax a few years now and ha no idea I this history apart from the HSS Ajax ship. Thanks for the insight.
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I know the feeling of living in a town that ammo built I lived in brownsburg where the dominion catridge company was built in the later half of the 19th century
One day we tore a wall down in my childhood home just to find the wall was made will woodeen ammo crates.... stronger wall I ever seen had to tear it aparr piece by piece with a crow bar
One day we tore a wall down in my childhood home just to find the wall was made will woodeen ammo crates.... stronger wall I ever seen had to tear it aparr piece by piece with a crow bar
One of my great aunts built aircraft during WW2, and the other made ammunition of some sort, both I believe, in Montreal. There were no unemployed during those years.
