Toronto: Sea Mink
Once upon a time, before Rob Ford was mayor, even before the Rogers Centre was SkyDome, Toronto had a waterfront. On this waterfront lived Neovison macrodon, the sea mink, a lithe and beautiful nocturnal creature that spent most of its time alone, frolicking by the muddy little town of what was then called York. Aptly enough for a Canadian mammal, the sea mink's fur was coarser and redder than its American cousin's. It was also larger, nearly a metre long, making its pelt particularly prized by trappers. They hunted it to extinction. Or did the giant frog squatting in SkyDome devour it? Whatever the case, the Toronto-based species of the sea mink is no more. Only the American mink remains. The fur market in Toronto, meanwhile, is bullish.
