When a youngster, growing up in South Western Ontario, the "pheasant" Township license was an extra $3.00.
That was $3.00 to hunt pheasant in only one township. At that time, there were no reared pheasants, just the wild stuff.
So - that's where poaching began - and stopped, actually, for me.
Once I hit 18 or so, I could afford the license. We ate quite a few pheasants prior to that.