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Well-schooled ducks: The Dunbarton Duck herds its latest brood of ducklings across a courtyard at a Pickering high school
Well-schooled ducks: The Dunbarton Duck herds its latest brood of ducklings across a courtyard at a Pickering high school

Well-schooled ducks: The Dunbarton Duck herds its latest brood of ducklings across a courtyard at a Pickering high school

Date4/30/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Well-schooled ducks: The Dunbarton Duck herds its latest brood of ducklings across a courtyard at a Pickering high school.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0003936F
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