Kodak Heights

Kodak Mount Dennis campus, circa 1915.

Kodak Heights is the name Eastman Kodak gave to its large campus in Mount Dennis, Ontario.^[1][2] Kodak moved the centre of its operations in Canada to the Mount Dennis campus in 1912, and continued to operate there until 2006.

By 1925 Kodak employed 900 employees on the campus.^[3]

At its largest extent the campus covered 48 acres (19 ha).^[1] The campus was acquired for use as a transportation hub, and will house the western terminus of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, a new commuter railway station, a 15 bay bus terminal, and the maintenance and storage yards for the Eglinton Crosstown's rolling stock.^[2]

Local residents argued that the employee's recreation building, the only building still standing, should be restored, even though it had been heavily vandalized.

At the height of its operations Kodak the campus contained over a dozen buildings, of which only Kodak building 9 remains.^[1][2][4]

References

1. Ken Shaddock (2013-05-06). "Memories of a former Kodak employee: Ken Shaddock started in the order department at Kodak in 1967 and worked his way up to sales and marketing operations before he retired in 2001.". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2013-09-16. Kodak came to Canada in 1899 and moved twice in Toronto due to rapid growth before the company bought 48 acres in Mt. Dennis in 1912 — the site that would become known as Kodak Heights and become one of the largest employers in the area.
2. Rachel Mendleson (2013-10-02). "Crosstown LRT project reveals — and respects — Eglinton's history". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2014-01-22. Retrieved 2013-10-03. Building 9, the former Kodak employee building, is the last remnant of Kodak Heights. The derelict building will become the "heart" of Mount Dennis station.
3. "Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection". Ryerson University. Archived from the original on 2013-09-16. In 1912, Canadian Kodak purchased 25 acres of farmland near Weston Road and Eglinton Avenue to build a major manufacturing facility known as “Kodak Heights.” By 1925, there were over 900 employees working in seven buildings at Kodak Heights.
4. "Kodak's Building 9 was once employee hub of Toronto complex". Toronto Sun. 2013-06-22. Archived from the original on 2013-09-16. Retrieved August 2013. In 2013, the last remaining building became home to squatters, teenage graffiti artists, and the property of Metrolinx, the government organization that oversees public transportation in the GTA.

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