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Even Canada's wild ducks know a good thing when they find it, and several hundred winter annually along the Lakeshore and at Toronto Island. The Toron(...)
Even Canada's wild ducks know a good thing when they find it, and several hundred winter annually along the Lakeshore and at Toronto Island. The Toron(...)

Even Canada's wild ducks know a good thing when they find it, and several hundred winter annually along the Lakeshore and at Toronto Island. The Toron(...)

Date26 May 1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: Even Canada's wild ducks know a good thing when they find it; and several hundred winter annually along the Lakeshore and at Toronto Island. The Toronto Humane Society spends about $150 a week throughout the winter to provide birdseed for the ducks. It's been doing it for about seven years; but there still isn't enough money to feed them adequately; officials say. These fellows are presumably foraging for themselves in the lagoon.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0003922F
Even Canada's wild ducks know a good thing when they find it, and several hundred winter annually along the lakeshore and at Toronto Island. The Toron(...)
Even Canada's wild ducks know a good thing when they find it, and several hundred winter annually along the lakeshore and at Toronto Island. The Toron(...)
6/9/1977
Swans join wild kin. The Swans from Gairloch Gardens in east Oakville have joined the growing number of ducks and Canada geese wintering along Lake On(...)
Swans join wild kin. The Swans from Gairloch Gardens in east Oakville have joined the growing number of ducks and Canada geese wintering along Lake On(...)
2/20/1977
It's good weather for ducks. Grenadier Pond in High Park is free of ice, thanks to the unusually mild winter-and that's just as well: The surface is c(...)
It's good weather for ducks. Grenadier Pond in High Park is free of ice, thanks to the unusually mild winter-and that's just as well: The surface is c(...)
2/3/1975
Public spirit: Even the ducks must do their bit
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11/4/1967
Scores of ducks-but not Ringo-paddle along the shore of Lake Ontario as Humane Society Inspector John McArthur tosses bread crumbs and corn to them to(...)
Scores of ducks-but not Ringo-paddle along the shore of Lake Ontario as Humane Society Inspector John McArthur tosses bread crumbs and corn to them to(...)
11/10/1971
Ducks that winter on Grenadier Pond in High Park get a handout from Annie Magansa, 15, and Alan Potter, 18, to disapproval of waterfowl biologist Robe(...)
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2/27/1974
Cold duck freed from the ice. Rescuing ducks and Canada geese frozen in the ice at the foot of Spadina Ave., Dale Griffin, 22, carries a mallard he ha(...)
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2/4/1976
A school of ducks? The Dunbarton Duck proudly displays the nine ducklings she hatched last week in an enclosed courtyard at Dunbarton High School in P(...)
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4/28/1987
Well-schooled ducks: The Dunbarton Duck herds its latest brood of ducklings across a courtyard at a Pickering high school
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4/30/1986
Birds - Ducks (1976 - )
Birds - Ducks (1976 - )
6/3/1993
Paddling around in Grenadier Pond in High Park, wintering ducks blithely ignore the sign warning that the nonexistent ice is unsafe. It is likely to r(...)
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12/13/1971
Birds - Ducks (up to 1975)
Birds - Ducks (up to 1975)
11/8/1971