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Some fine feathered friends. Anyone can get a bird to eat out of his hand - but aviculturalist John Bennett has his plucking seeds from his mouth. The(...)
Some fine feathered friends. Anyone can get a bird to eat out of his hand - but aviculturalist John Bennett has his plucking seeds from his mouth. The(...)

Some fine feathered friends. Anyone can get a bird to eat out of his hand - but aviculturalist John Bennett has his plucking seeds from his mouth. The(...)

Date9/28/1987
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  • Some fine feathered friends. Anyone can get a bird to eat out of his hand - but aviculturalist John Bennett has his plucking seeds from his mouth. The bird breeder will be showing his birds at the 28th Canadian National Cage Bird Show in Pickering this weekend.
  • Some fine feathered friends. Anyone can get a bird to eat out of his hand - but aviculturalist John Bennett has his plucking seeds from his mouth. The(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Some fine feathered friends. Anyone can get a bird to eat out of his hand - but aviculturalist John Bennett has his plucking seeds from his mouth. The bird breeder will be showing his birds at the 28th Canadian National Cage Bird Show in Pickering this weekend.
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      What's up? A newly hatched cockatiel takes a look at the world as he stands on the hand of John Bennett, the birdman of Durham. The Uxbridge resident imports and breeds exotic birds and has a stock of 400 feathered friends ranging from finches to toucans.
      What's up? A newly hatched cockatiel takes a look at the world as he stands on the hand of John Bennett, the birdman of Durham. The Uxbridge resident imports and breeds exotic birds and has a stock of 400 feathered friends ranging from finches to toucans.
      Dunlop, Alan
      6/15/1982
      Uncle Frank Dawson tends to one of his injured wildfowl at his 3 3/4-acre conservation area on Elmcrest Rd. The 83-year-old bachelor has been patching up injured birds for as long as anyone can remember. With a small creek running through the back, his property has become a haven for hundreds of waterfowl. He has lived in the same house for over 50 years and has raised a varietyof birds. But Dawson can't recall when people started to bring birds to him, he said.
      Uncle Frank Dawson tends to one of his injured wildfowl at his 3 3/4-acre conservation area on Elmcrest Rd. The 83-year-old bachelor has been patching up injured birds for as long as anyone can remember. With a small creek running through the back, his property has become a haven for hundreds of waterfowl. He has lived in the same house for over 50 years and has raised a varietyof birds. But Dawson can't recall when people started to bring birds to him, he said.
      Slaughter, Mike
      9/1/1978
      Barren times: Farmer Don Drake finds the market for his black sunflower seeds has dried up as consumers cut back.
      Barren times: Farmer Don Drake finds the market for his black sunflower seeds has dried up as consumers cut back.
      Lautens, Richard
      4/2/1992
      Feathered frineds: Ross Saunders, the Birdman and Pickering, givest two of his friends a little attention
      Feathered frineds: Ross Saunders, the Birdman and Pickering, givest two of his friends a little attention
      Russell
      1/18/1984
      Drink up: Philosophy professor Kuni Fann turned his hand to producing and selling a herbal drink after friends liked his caffeine-free concoction. He has taken a year off teaching and invested thousands in the venture.
      Drink up: Philosophy professor Kuni Fann turned his hand to producing and selling a herbal drink after friends liked his caffeine-free concoction. He has taken a year off teaching and invested thousands in the venture.
      Russell, Jim
      5/1/1991
      A little help from his friends, Paul Turner of West Hill, struggling against the maul of one of the Black Scots of Macdonald, gets some help from his (...)
      A little help from his friends, Paul Turner of West Hill, struggling against the maul of one of the Black Scots of Macdonald, gets some help from his (...)
      Goode, Jeff
      5/2/1991
      A fine-feathered friend: Barred rock rooster -- an old English game cock -- is one of award-winning birds on Gerald Donnelly's Caledon farm.
      A fine-feathered friend: Barred rock rooster -- an old English game cock -- is one of award-winning birds on Gerald Donnelly's Caledon farm.
      Calleja, Frank
      4/15/1981
      Quetton St. George and Co. Mr. St. George begs leave to return his thanks to his friends and the public ... has now taken Messrs. Julius Quesnel and John S. Baldwin into copartnership ...
      Quetton St. George and Co. Mr. St. George begs leave to return his thanks to his friends and the public ... has now taken Messrs. Julius Quesnel and John S. Baldwin into copartnership ...
      Baldwin, John-Spread, 1787-1843
      1814
      Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
      Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
      Bull, Ron
      12/5/1973
      Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
      Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
      Bull, Ron
      12/5/1973
      Architect Irving Grossman has known artist most of his life and because of these contracts most of the works in his personal collection are pieces that have been created by very close friends
      Architect Irving Grossman has known artist most of his life and because of these contracts most of the works in his personal collection are pieces that have been created by very close friends
      Philp, Barry
      1/27/1967
      A bit of suet and a few sunflower seeds are a never failing source of attraction to the chickadee, the merriest bird of the northland
      A bit of suet and a few sunflower seeds are a never failing source of attraction to the chickadee, the merriest bird of the northland
      Miner, Jack, 1865-1944
      3/1/1938