Filmed from a cottage on fabled Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park. The imprinting experiment had started with three gosling which
Dan Gibson brought to their Forest Hill home in 1972. They swam in a big galvanized iron tub in the backyard and the boys walked them up and down the sidewalk in front of the house but it was Gibson whom they considered their "mother." Two years later he brought a dozen of the baby geese up to the cottage to ultimately make cinematic history. "No one had filmed geese from above," said his son, Dan. The film opened at the Manulife Centre, where it ran for six weeks. Children wept at the cinematic fate of one of the geese.