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Country flavor: You'd think you were many kilometres from the city in the Rouge, one of Scarborough's final frontier areas
Country flavor: You'd think you were many kilometres from the city in the Rouge, one of Scarborough's final frontier areas

Country flavor: You'd think you were many kilometres from the city in the Rouge, one of Scarborough's final frontier areas

Date11/22/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: Country flavor: You'd think you were many kilometres from the city in the Rouge; one of Scarborough's final frontier areas.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0107890F
Disappearing act: Henry Skritek and his pet lion, photographed before Scarborough's new bylaw banning exotic pets from residential areas, appear to have been separated. Neighboring Centennial Dr. residents had complained about the lion and it hasn't been seen for at least the last two weeks even though Skritek vowed to fight the bylaw and keep the lion.
Disappearing act: Henry Skritek and his pet lion, photographed before Scarborough's new bylaw banning exotic pets from residential areas, appear to have been separated. Neighboring Centennial Dr. residents had complained about the lion and it hasn't been seen for at least the last two weeks even though Skritek vowed to fight the bylaw and keep the lion.
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