My wife is cooking Christmas dinner this year. I’m in charge of getting the turkey. I should, of course, have arranged for something special ages ago, but…(fill in lame excuse here). Any Toronto dopers know a good place to order a nice free range turkey to ready for the holiday?
Thanks for tolerating my stupidity.
I’d say your best bet would be heading down to St. Lawrence Market and trying to find someone down there selling them.
Keep in mind, I haven’t been to St. Lawrence Market in 10 years and am much to young to have ever bought a turkey.
But that’s where I would go…
Keep in mind the term “free range” isn’t regulated in Canada. So anyone can slap the name on their turkeys without any proof.
Somewhere else you could check might be Whole Foods. Again, I haven’t been there, but I think it would be a good bet.
St. Lawrence market (Big $$$$$) or Bill’s Turkey Farm in Queensville. Worth the drive the Queensville. One other is Klosters in Newmarket - Mike will get you a great one. Order soon though.
Must… restrain… joke about Queen’s Park…
See, I was going to go with city hall but I then I remembered Lastman was gone.
Hey, I work at Queen’s Park. 
Am appreciating the suggestions, serious and otherwise. I do love the SDMB.
There is a Whole Foods in Toronto?
Second nomination for Bill’s Turkey Farm. Them’s good birds.
Yup. I’ve never been, but I heard plenty about it in my 5 years at one of the lower-end grocery chains. Whole Foods Toronto
Isn’t it about time for the Great December Turkey Drive, where the turkey-boys herd this year’s flock of northern turkeys down Yonge Street, from their native habitat on the shores of Hudson Bay? I’ve always thought those are the best free-rangers.
I thought they stopped this when all the turkeys got spooked by the 407 and went scampering off into the moraine.
Damn 905ers ruin a great Canadian tradition.
They’re being helicoptered in and distributed at Nathan Philips Square later this week. 
So long as they don’t drop them from those helicopers.
As God is my witness…
Ah, I wasn’t aware of that. Another great tradition ruined.
And of course, any mention of the great turkey drives would be incomplete without acknowledging the contribution of the turkey-boys to Canadian bagpiping. They would play their pipes while riding their horses and sitting around the campfire at night - they composed some of the great Canadian piping tunes. Who can forget “Get along, little pullets”? And then there’s the piobreachd, “Lament for the death of the Great Tom on the banks of Lake Simcoe (although he was delicious)”. Sounds better in the original Gaelic, naturally.
Helicopters, indeed. There’s no romance in helicopters.