If you Ducks would care to motor up to Ottawa (about five hours from Toronto by autoroute), you would arrive after the end of tourist season -- always a good idea for those contemplating a long stay. (It would be even better, for research purposes, if you came in February or March!) Edmund (CET) and I live in downtown Ottawa, in a house equipped with several musical instruments, three cats, a guest bedroom, and a library with enough floor space for several young persons capable of getting a good night's sleep on an air mattress. We have jobs, but they let us off the chain now and then ...