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G.E.C.O.

Abandoned Commercial in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jan 28 2011

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Recent status Abandoned
Location # 2332

The G.E.C.O. complex was built in 1940 and 1941 during world war 2. With over 170 buildings and over 5 kilometers of tunnels, "General Engineering Company of Ontario" {G.E.C.O.} assembled and filled munitions such as fuses, primers, tubes, gaines, tracers, igniters and chemical explosives. At their peak production they had over 5,300 employees working here. The tunnels were built with concrete {7ft high and 10ft wide} to protect the G.E.C.O. employees from weather and possible air raids and explosions. The last few remaining buildings have been recently demolished, the tunnels filled in with debris from the demo(a)s, and new buildings are being built over top the old tunnels.

More information can be found in the autobiography book, "Corky, Peggy and the Goldfinch".

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4 weeks ago

I did some research and visited an auto shop in the area. Owner confirmed a hatch into the tunnel exists in his building but it is apparently used as storage so he wouldn't agree to let me in. There are apparently 20 original GECO buildings still standing.

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1 year ago

I'm not sure if it's possible to get in. In the voting weekend days I'll drive by and see if there is still a way in. I doubt it as it looks like they have built a commercial shopping complex over the area

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1 year ago

crimson, also looking for an entry point for any tunnels still left. it doesn't make sense that if there were 5kms of tunnels then none of them are still there? must be some way in or some section that's abandoned.

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1 year ago

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2 years ago

Is it possible to get in

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2 years ago

My wife, Barbara Dickson, wrote a book on GECO in 2015 titled "Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo". In it she documents the history, management, processes and local geography including the tunnels and walkways that encompass the 386 acre site at Warden and Eglinton. The tunnels no longer course between the buildings. They exist as basements to their respective buildings of which there are about twenty. For more information go to her website at www.barbaradickson.ca -

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3 years ago

can you get in ?

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4 years ago

is there any other way

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5 years ago

2 years and still searching one day one day lol

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12 years ago

Active shops all around - you will be seen during the day.

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13 years ago

so...you can't get into it anymore?

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13 years ago

So sad! :(

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13 years ago

ahah lol yeah sure did. It's actually a cat. Still got it's whiskers.

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13 years ago

ahhh poor doggie got trapped down there and starved..