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The rodeo opened with traditional ceremonies performed before elephant hunters leave their jungle villages to capture and tame the beasts. The hunting(...)
The rodeo opened with traditional ceremonies performed before elephant hunters leave their jungle villages to capture and tame the beasts. The hunting(...)

The rodeo opened with traditional ceremonies performed before elephant hunters leave their jungle villages to capture and tame the beasts. The hunting(...)

Date4/7/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: The rodeo opened with traditional ceremonies performed before elephant hunters leave their jungle villages to capture and tame the beasts. The hunting is done in the forests of Thailand and Cambodia and the animals are sold to timber companies for work in heavy bush.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0118211F
Travel on the river is by dugout canoe, with an outboard for power, and you spend the nights at Bush Negro Villages where you may join tribal ceremonies
Travel on the river is by dugout canoe, with an outboard for power, and you spend the nights at Bush Negro Villages where you may join tribal ceremonies
8/28/1974
Elephant races are part of the program at a rodeo in the jungles of Thailand, an informal sort of affair where the tourists are vastly outnumbered by (...)
Elephant races are part of the program at a rodeo in the jungles of Thailand, an informal sort of affair where the tourists are vastly outnumbered by (...)
5/6/1972
All that's missing in this jungle is the beasts
All that's missing in this jungle is the beasts
3/7/1978
The traveller's and sportsman's guide to the principal cities, towns & villages near the hunting & fishing grounds of the great northern lakes in Canada & Manitoba: being a description of the journey from Liverpool to the river "St. Lawrence", lakes "Ontario", "Simcoe", "Muskoka", "Chouchiching" [sic] the "Georgian Bay", lakes "Huron", "Superior", "Winnipeg", "Manitoba", and their connecting rivers, giving the best route to the game and fish sporting localities, how to go, cost of journey, outfit, what to take for camping, distances, &c.
The traveller's and sportsman's guide to the principal cities, towns & villages near the hunting & fishing grounds of the great northern lakes in Canada & Manitoba: being a description of the journey from Liverpool to the river "St. Lawrence", lakes "Ontario", "Simcoe", "Muskoka", "Chouchiching" [sic] the "Georgian Bay", lakes "Huron", "Superior", "Winnipeg", "Manitoba", and their connecting rivers, giving the best route to the game and fish sporting localities, how to go, cost of journey, outfit, what to take for camping, distances, &c.
1880
Boxing day sales get Sunday start, Bargain hunters were out in force Sunday as several downtown Toronto stores began their traditional Boxing Day sale(...)
Boxing day sales get Sunday start, Bargain hunters were out in force Sunday as several downtown Toronto stores began their traditional Boxing Day sale(...)
12/26/1971
Hunting and fishing are allowed in season and game like moose, cariboo, mountain goat and bear are so tame they stand and look at humans. One recent visitor saw a grizzly with cubs rout a black bear
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3/16/1940
Treasure hunters: Sharon Warren (above left) and Carola Vyhnak leave Etobicoke with results of their treasure hunt
Treasure hunters: Sharon Warren (above left) and Carola Vyhnak leave Etobicoke with results of their treasure hunt
9/2/1982
The noonday gun firing in Ottawa is one of our most traditional ceremonies
The noonday gun firing in Ottawa is one of our most traditional ceremonies
6/6/1973
Competitors go flat out - or their version of it - at the world's only elephant rodeo, held in Surin, Thailand
Competitors go flat out - or their version of it - at the world's only elephant rodeo, held in Surin, Thailand
10/11/1978
Descendants of the rebels of 1837 gathered for the ceremonies along the Niagara frontier when Premier Mackenzie King opened the restored home of his g(...)
Descendants of the rebels of 1837 gathered for the ceremonies along the Niagara frontier when Premier Mackenzie King opened the restored home of his g(...)
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Whole village turned out for the opening ceremonies
Whole village turned out for the opening ceremonies
10/14/1949
Blessed the Beasts creators Danny Grossman (left) and Lawrence Gradus
Blessed the Beasts creators Danny Grossman (left) and Lawrence Gradus
2/4/1992