Photo Record
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Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2013.044.001.004 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Title |
[George Minaker retirement] |
Description |
Black and white photograph with a white border. The border has a scalloped edge. In the centre of the photograph is a man seated on a recliner on a factory cart. He is wearing a suit and tie, and has a straw hat on his lap. He has been identified as George Minaker. He is surrounded by a large group of unidentified men, all wearing work clothes. Several of the men are wearing white painter's caps with "------ Paint" printed on them. There are several rolls of fabric in the right front corner. Stamped on the reverse of the photograph is the number "650" and a repeating pattern of "Kodak/Velox/Paper". No photographer's mark. |
Date |
1957 |
Copyright |
Waterloo Region Museum |
History |
Thomas Kempel (1937-2013) worked at Dominion Rubber/Merchants for 47 years. He started work in 1953 when he was 16 years old, and retired around 2002. He continued to work for the company when its name was changed to Uniroyal, and then as the companies in the building at 51 Breithaupt Street changed from Uniroyal to Beckers Lay-Tech to Perstorp Components to Collins & Aikman. The Merchant's Rubber Company was formed in 1903 by Talmon Henry Rieder and Jacob Kaufman. Both men had been shareholders in the Berlin Rubber Manufacturing Company and formed their own company after a disagreement with the other shareholders. In 1907, both the Merchant's Rubber Company and the Berlin Rubber Manufacturing Company were acquired by Canadian Consolidated Rubber of Montreal. T.H. Rieder became a Director of Consolidated Rubber and General Manager of all its Canadian footwear factories. This company was later referred to as Dominion Rubber Systems, however, the building at 51 Breithaupt Street continued to be known as the Merchants Rubber Factory. In 1966, Dominion Rubber changed its name to Uniroyal. Uniroyal and BF Goodrich merged in 1986, and the Merchant's factory was then owned by a succession of companies that manufactured automotive parts and accessories. As of 2013, the building is part of a redevelopment known as the Breithaupt Block. |
Search Terms |
Dominion Rubber Company Merchants Rubber Factory |
People |
Minaker, George |