TRAVELS AND TRADITIONS OF WATERFOWL 



Mulder, Ray Burton, and Les Garnham, and their families. The members of the 

 Hutchinson, Loucks, and MacDonald families, together with numerous other 

 friends in the Village of Delta, have been always helpful. Many sportsmen and 

 farmers in the city and rural municipality of Portage la Prairie, in Winnipeg, and 

 throughout the province have been a continual source of information about the 

 waterfowl of Manitoba. 



Finally, I am ever grateful to my wife Joan and to my children, who, together 

 with my parents and members of the Ward family, have encouraged me toward 

 the completion of this book. Nor, in spring, summer, and fall, could I have 

 learned half so much about the waterfowl of the Delta Marsh without good old 

 faithful Tim, a Black Labrador Retriever. 



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