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Quack open the champagne. Hotel Janitor Jacinto Mello celebrates the birth of 13 ducklings this week to a mallard duck living in the pond in the lobby(...)
Quack open the champagne. Hotel Janitor Jacinto Mello celebrates the birth of 13 ducklings this week to a mallard duck living in the pond in the lobby(...)

Quack open the champagne. Hotel Janitor Jacinto Mello celebrates the birth of 13 ducklings this week to a mallard duck living in the pond in the lobby(...)

Date5/14/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Quack open the champagne. Hotel Janitor Jacinto Mello celebrates the birth of 13 ducklings this week to a mallard duck living in the pond in the lobby of the Sheraton Centre Hotel. Grandfather Mello had kept a protective eye on the mother and the eggs.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0003947F
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