David Ward Jr. (1839 – 1912) was a prominent Toronto, Ontario businessman, sportsman and decoy* carver. Attached below is his biography excerpted and abridged from the book Traditions in Wood: A History of Wildfowl Decoys in Canada”:
At the age of 19, David Ward Jr. watched as a storm crashing off Lake Ontario breached the Toronto peninsula and reshaped the harbour behind it, creating Ward’s Island out of the land on which his family lived. More firmly rooted, apparently, tha (showing 500 of 4683 characters). |
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