I thought about posting the previous entry and this one together, but they are completely unrelated and are great stories in their own right, but a bad, bad combination.

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South of Front Street in Toronto’s downtown was once wharfs and shipping slips. The shoreline was essentially filled with litter and street sweepings for years, which in turn, extended the shoreline to the existing location. The area from roughly Strachan east to the Scarborough Bluffs and from Front street south used to be water. The area was then all industrial when shipping was at it’s peak. There are many items buried in this area which were just trash at the time; including papers, bottles, shoes, and household items.

Today I was walking around while I waited for someone to return and happened upon an old clay jar. As I picked it up and cleaned the side to read the inscription I found that it was a marmalade jar from the 1800’s as well as a glass bottle and a tea cup.
Many of the guys on site find items and keep them, others have sold them to dealers. Some dealers will even come to site with sheets of paper describing certain items and what they’d be worth if sold. I kept my find today.