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Happy motoring: General Motors of Canada's south plant is back on a two-shift operation. The company; which employs over 17;000 people; is rebounding from a $71.7-million loss in 1982.

Picture, 1983

Oshawa is a thriving city in the midst of everything

Picture, 1982

Row upon row of cars await a hoped-for sales pickup at General Motors' Oshawa plant; where assembly lines were silent last week to trim production. U.S. authorities complain Canada gets off lightly in continent-wide layoffs. Ottawa fears shutdowns will be chronic if Canadian auto industry's protection is weakened.

Picture, 1970

Showing its age: Guy House; believed to be Oshawa's oldest structure; is in drastic need of repair. Some $22;000; targeted for fixing up Guy House and Henry House; was cut from the city's budget.

Picture, 1995

Back in 1904; the McLaughlin Carriage Co. used hand tools to turn out cars at the rate of one a week. Now they roll off the line at rate of 55 an hour.

Picture, 1954

Above; the Churchof the Holy Virgin; situated at the corner of Bloor St. E.; and Ritson Rd.; Oshawa; is shown. Inset Father Chawrink.

Picture, 1937

Oshawa Memorial Pk McLaughlin Bandshell

Picture, 1983

Canada - Ontario - Oshawa - General Motors - Physical Plant

Picture, 1981

William A. Wecker; General Motors of Canada president; points to an aerial photo of the new Oshawa plant which will step up production to 1;350 vehicles a day.

Picture, 1954

It's a long walk along the slowly-moving assembly line at the Oshawa South plant of General Motors; where the vast; linked buildings cover 165 acres. To save time getting from one place to another; workers ride bicycles along controlled pathways. The company experimented first with golf carts but found the bikes more flexible.

Picture, 1973

Canadian auto maker's head office is on William St. E. in Oshawa

Picture, 1983

Sir Joseph flavelle officiates at ceremony. The photographs here show features of official opening yesterday; of Oshawa's new Collegiate and Vocational Institute; by Sir Joseph Flavele. [Incomplete]

Picture, 1930

Fight for Jobs: Oshawa Mayor Nancy Diamond leaves a session with neighboring politicians yesterday on strategies to keep GM plants open.

Picture, 1992

Final scrutiny: Part-time volunteer Suzanne VanDriel prepares a painting by Pegi Nicol MacLeod for the exhibit this month at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. Entitled Self-portrait with begonia; the work is one of more than 1;000 the artist painted. Fifth on display; half are the gallery's; purchased mostly by director Joan Murray.

Picture, 1983

Osha church celebrates century of service. A century of progress and spiritual service is being celebrated by the congregation of St. Andrew;s United church; Oshawa. [inocomplete]

Picture, 1933

A Bumper crop in Oshawa. Glittering in the bright winter sunlight; hundreds of automobile bumpers are stockpiled in the yard of Houdaille Oshawa Ltd. on Simcone St. in Oshawa; watched over by guard Bert Stinson; who directs traffic through the yard. The company stamps and plates bumpers for the big automobile manufacturers and this is a supply of them awaiting shipment; most of them to the U.S.

Picture, 1974

Canada - Ontario - Oshawa - General Motors - Old Pix

Picture, 1987

Lunch beside the line saves time for GM assembly workers. Picnic tables are one place to spend their 42-minute lunch periods and two 10-minute shift breaks. There's also a company cafeteria.

Picture, 1973

End of the line. The last Pontiac 6000 made by General Motors of Canada at its Oshawa plant is driven off the line yesterday by TomYoung; 61; who will retire in August. A total of 1;541;882 Pontiac and other so-called A-cars have been made in Oshawa since 1982. Almost 5;900 workers will be laid off for five months before production of a new Chevrolet sedan begins. The new family of cars is code-named W or GM-10 cars.

Picture, 1988

Steel is unloaded from the Anangel Glory at Oshawa Harbor's only dock.

Picture, 1983

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Happy motoring: General Motors of Canada's south plant is back on a two-shift operation. The company; which employs over 17;000 people; is rebounding from a $71.7-million loss in 1982.

Oshawa is a thriving city in the midst of everything

Showing its age: Guy House; believed to be Oshawa's oldest structure; is in drastic need of repair. Some $22;000; targeted for fixing up Guy House and Henry House; was cut from the city's budget.

Back in 1904; the McLaughlin Carriage Co. used hand tools to turn out cars at the rate of one a week. Now they roll off the line at rate of 55 an hour.

Above; the Churchof the Holy Virgin; situated at the corner of Bloor St. E.; and Ritson Rd.; Oshawa; is shown. Inset Father Chawrink.

Oshawa Memorial Pk McLaughlin Bandshell

Canada - Ontario - Oshawa - General Motors - Physical Plant

William A. Wecker; General Motors of Canada president; points to an aerial photo of the new Oshawa plant which will step up production to 1;350 vehicles a day.

Canadian auto maker's head office is on William St. E. in Oshawa

Sir Joseph flavelle officiates at ceremony. The photographs here show features of official opening yesterday; of Oshawa's new Collegiate and Vocational Institute; by Sir Joseph Flavele. [Incomplete]

Fight for Jobs: Oshawa Mayor Nancy Diamond leaves a session with neighboring politicians yesterday on strategies to keep GM plants open.

Osha church celebrates century of service. A century of progress and spiritual service is being celebrated by the congregation of St. Andrew;s United church; Oshawa. [inocomplete]

Canada - Ontario - Oshawa - General Motors - Old Pix

Lunch beside the line saves time for GM assembly workers. Picnic tables are one place to spend their 42-minute lunch periods and two 10-minute shift breaks. There's also a company cafeteria.

Steel is unloaded from the Anangel Glory at Oshawa Harbor's only dock.

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