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Timeline Theme: Land and Water

Forager’s Kitchen: Spicy Fried Dandelion Greens

Our Waterways

Photograph of a person fishing in a river running beneath an underpass. Image sourced from the Toronto Star, 2016.

Coyotes

Forager’s Kitchen: Roasted Jerusalem Artichokes

Raccoons

Pigeons

Domesticated pigeons live in shelters we call cotes.

How We Dwell

A roost is a perch—like a roof, tree, or power line—where birds or bats gather to sleep.

Pollinators

Tkaronto

An early-20th century photograph of the Humber River and its surrounding lands, once the home of various First Nations such as the Anishanaabe.
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