Packers Lead
Lead to Bunge (old CanAmera) formerly to Canada Packers
etc. through Ryding Avenue Park. 11.2 acres
including George Bell Arena at right. Looking north-northeast from Lambton
Yard fence gate.
April 16, 2005 R.L.Kennedy
Lead looking west from Gunns Road crossing. New housing
by the hundreds along new streets as well as St.Clair Avenue West fills
the former site of Canada Packers. Meat processing plants remain to
the north of lead, none served by rail.
July 2, 2005 R.L.Kennedy
Crossing signpost is full of burned-out stubs of fusees
(note piles of ash!) used to protect crossing when switching at night.
Gunns Road looking east. July 10, 2005 R.L.Kennedy
Houses fill the former site Canada Packers as far as
you can see looking west along St.Clair Ave.W. at Gunns Rd. which has
been extended south (left) as (Old) Stockyards Rd. to West Toronto St.
through the former site of the Ontario Stockyards. Note the clockwise
arrangement of streetcar track through Gunns Loop instead of the more
traditional counterclockwise direction. This was a short extention built
in 1980 west from Keele Street where Keele Loop was located at Keele
and Weston Rd. opposite the office building shown below. July 2, 2005
R.L.Kennedy
Bunge office building at 30 Weston Road just north of
St.Clair Avenue West. Looking west.This same building has contained
the offices of Swift's and in later years, CanAmera Foods, and since
October 15, 2002 Bunge. (Bunge Canada March 29, 2004). Once an extensive
food processing plant, by the time CanAmera took over, only edible oils
were produced here.
July 2, 2005 R.L.Kennedy
