General Motors and the Golden Mile
For 40 years, General Motors manufactured and assembled home appliances, automotive parts, and vans on this site.
In 1952, General Motors built a head office and factory for its Frigidaire division on 34 hectares in the "Golden Mile", Eglinton Avenue's industrial park, and began assembling home appliances for Canada's post-war consumers. As the area's largest industrial development when it opened, the plant became one of Scarborough's primary employers.
In 1968, the plant shifted from home appliances to manufacturing car parts for Delco, a General Motors subsidiary, and by 1974, it had become a van assembly plant. The factory produced its one-millionth van in 1986. However, three years later, General Motors announced it was moving production to Flint, Michigan. The Scarborough factory closed in 1993 and the building was subsequently demolished.
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