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Keeping the wolf from the door, Inga Britt has lost 22 lambs to coyotes at her farm on the Ninth Line in Mississauga and is so determined to save the (...)
Keeping the wolf from the door, Inga Britt has lost 22 lambs to coyotes at her farm on the Ninth Line in Mississauga and is so determined to save the (...)

Keeping the wolf from the door, Inga Britt has lost 22 lambs to coyotes at her farm on the Ninth Line in Mississauga and is so determined to save the (...)

Date7/29/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Keeping the wolf from the door; Inga Britt has lost 22 lambs to coyotes at her farm on the Ninth Line in Mississauga and is so determined to save the remaining 300 Dorset sheep in her flock that she totes a .303 rifle at night; as does her hired hand; Darrell Rowley; who has an infra-red scope on his rifle.
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0023093F
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