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John Leeson 🇨🇦🇺🇦 · 5 · 2d ago Given the news today, I thought you were about to call Doug Ford the scourge of the Great Lakes.
Toronto Boris · 2 · 1h ago See I've been out of town and I'm only now catching up.. Yeah that was a bad friday.
These have terrified me since I first saw them as an 8-year/old at the Ontario Science Centre
Oh yeah.. They're nightmare fuel even now as an adult.
The stuff of nightmares for sure! But haven't they been in Lake Ontario since before Marilyn Bell swam it in 1954?
Since they dug the st Lawrence waterway, I was told. Finished in 59
I only knew about them as a horror story in connection with swimmers, but according to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission site (I just looked it up now) lampreys have been in Lake Ontario since "the mid 1800s."
It was the Welland canal that allowed them to bypass the Niagara falls and spread from Lake Ontario.
Just terrible.
Yes; quicksand & lampreys (and somehow picking a Trillium by mistake) were the terrors of my childhood.
Wellend Canal helped them spread from Lake Ontario into the rest of the great lakes. Get got into Lake Ontario long before the Lawrence Waterway.
Precisely
Fuck those things