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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(...)

Date6/9/1977
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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 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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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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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0004016F
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(...)
Bezant, Graham
26 May 1977
For 16 years,. Humane Society inspector Wilf Patey has been feeding the ducks and Canada geese along the Toronto waterfront each winter as part of his(...)
For 16 years,. Humane Society inspector Wilf Patey has been feeding the ducks and Canada geese along the Toronto waterfront each winter as part of his(...)
Brennan, Pat
2/2/1976
Day for ducks and geese
Day for ducks and geese
Barkley, Harold
12/25/1972
It's lunchtime for a flock of Canada geese along the lakeshore, near Ellis Ave
It's lunchtime for a flock of Canada geese along the lakeshore, near Ellis Ave
Feeny, Edwin
1/12/1971
Garry's on a wild goose chase. Garry McCullough helps corral a gaggle of 1,320 Canada geese on Toronto Islands yesterday. It's part of a project that (...)
Garry's on a wild goose chase. Garry McCullough helps corral a gaggle of 1,320 Canada geese on Toronto Islands yesterday. It's part of a project that (...)
Bock, Tony
6/25/1986
It was good hunting weather for geese looking for handouts yesterday along shores of Lake Ontario
It was good hunting weather for geese looking for handouts yesterday along shores of Lake Ontario
Bezant, Graham
10/3/1971
Out for a Sunday Cruise, this pair of Canada geese convoys a flotilla of 18 offspring as they paddle along under sunny skies on Toronto Harbor off Cen(...)
Out for a Sunday Cruise, this pair of Canada geese convoys a flotilla of 18 offspring as they paddle along under sunny skies on Toronto Harbor off Cen(...)
Griffin, Doug
5/23/1971
Lakeshore Blvd
Lakeshore Blvd
Bock, Tony
9/27/1993
It's time of a handout, and Humane Society Inspector George Pichler offers grain to a flock of Canada Geese wintering along Metro's Lake Ontario shore(...)
It's time of a handout, and Humane Society Inspector George Pichler offers grain to a flock of Canada Geese wintering along Metro's Lake Ontario shore(...)
Feeny, Edwin
1/12/1971
Canada geese winter on the credit
Canada geese winter on the credit
Calleja, Frank
3/4/1976
Feeding time? This flock of Canada Geese, part of a growing number in the Metro area that now spend the winter here, wander about as if they're lookin(...)
Feeding time? This flock of Canada Geese, part of a growing number in the Metro area that now spend the winter here, wander about as if they're lookin(...)
Spremo, Boris
2/6/1979
Gone geese. Take gander at all those geese! To control the goose population, 1,200 honkers are being rounded up on Centre Island by Ministry of Natura(...)
Gone geese. Take gander at all those geese! To control the goose population, 1,200 honkers are being rounded up on Centre Island by Ministry of Natura(...)
Bock, Tony
6/30/1983