Working in manufacturing

The Button Man
Boris Spremo/Toronto Star
September 11, 1972

Morris Hackman's Adelaide Street factory could produce 5,000 buttons an hour.

Cigars made in Toronto from Cuban tobacco

Cigar makers
Don Dutton/Toronto Star
January 5, 1976

In 1976, the only cigars made in Toronto came from a King Street East business operated by Iris Correnti.

Louis Rosen, also pictured, rolled 50,000 cigars a year from Cuban tobacco.

Punching out for the last time
Ron Bull/Toronto Star
June 12, 1980

After 37 years working at the same plant, Bob Busby punches out for the last time before the closing of the Goodyear Tire Co. factory on Lakeshore Boulevard.