$500 ready to rebuild burned bird haven
Toronto Star - Jan. 2, 1971, Sat. - pg.# 63 -
- report on efforts after the fire.

Marks 92nd birthday in hospital, Roy Ivor plans new start after fire
- looks like - Toronto Star - Jan. 3(?), 1971, - pg.# -
- fairly big, detailed story about him & his work.

Helpers plan to rebuild sanctuary for naturalist
Toronto Star - Jan. 4, 1971, Mon - pg.# 35 -
- more about rebuilding & fund raising.

Fund grows to $4,011 for new bird haven
Toronto Star - Jan. 5, 1971, Tues. - pg.# 24 -
- who gives what as fund grows, slowly.

Bird sanctuary fund nears $3,000
Mississauga Times - Jan.6, 1971, - pg.# front page
- 1 picture, many small donations and big names in the community are coming forward to help.

Marks 92nd birthday in hospital, Roy Ivor plans new start after fire
Mississauga Times - Jan.6, 1971, - pg.# 3 - By Sid Rodaway (?)
- about his life.

Trust fund launched within hours after fire destroyed sanctuary
Mississauga Times - Jan.6, 1971, - pg.# 3 - By Sid Rodaway
- 2 pictures, about the fire and community response.

A tragic blow
Mississauga Times - Jan.6, 1971, - pg.# 4 - Editorial
- 1 file & 1 picture of burned cottage (with caption - End of an Era?), and “The Town of Mississauga should be prod of this man and the things he tried, with some considerable success, to do.”

“Something has to be ready for spring:” Ivor
Mississauga News - Jan. 6, 1971, Wed. - pg.# front page - By Marnie Greening
- 1 picture, shows Roy eating his birthday cake & Bernice, Roy is very concerned about getting something going for when the baby birds will be needing help.

Spring is most important time of year for Ivor bird ...
Mississauga News - Jan. 6, 1971, Wed. - pg.# 4 from front page - By Marnie Greening
- more of same story.

Close friends head up drive to rebuild Roy Ivor aviary
Mississauga News - Jan. 6, 1971, Wed. - pg.# 4 - By Jim Robinson
- about the fund rising, the TV program that talked about Roy’s works and Bernice’s efforts.

A flutter of friendship
Globe and Mail - Jan. 12, 1971, - Pg.# -
- up-date - opinion page?

Bird bank
Mississauga Times - Jan.13 , 1971, Wed. - Pg.# - front page
- 1 picture & caption, Roy Ivor fund has been set-up to rebuild sanctuary.

Kiwanians Aid Naturalist
Mississauga Times - Jan.13 , 1971, Wed. - Pg.# - front page
- 1 picture & caption, Roy Ivor fund has been set-up to rebuild sanctuary.

Crusaders help the cause
Mississauga Times - Jan.13, 1971, - Pg.# -
- think 2 pictures story.

Strictly for the birds
Mississauga Times - Jan.13, 1971, - Pg.# 26 - By Pat Smith
- 4 picture, a South Peel Naturalist using her column to motivate people against donating money to rebuilding the bird sanctuary.
Believe it or not - the South Peel Naturalist (SPN), and the Federation of Ontario Naturalists (FON), both have been very critical of the efforts of Roy Ivor & his activities at the Windinglane Bird Sanctuary.  Maybe these bird watchers are jealous or the hand of the City at work?

Roy Ivor fund nears $10,000 mark
Mississauga Times - Jan. 13, 1971, Wed. - pg.# - 27
- 3 pictures, up-date and notes people who came to help.

Blue Heron might be first patient at Erindale College bird hospital
Mississauga News - Jan. 13, 1971, Wed. ? - pg.# 3 - By Marnie Greening
- 1 picture, more about the temporary bird care unit set-up in the University of Toronto, Erindale.

Bird sanctuary clean-up a real challenge for rovers
Mississauga News - Jan. 13, 1971, Wed. ? - pg.# 3 - By Marnie Greening ?
- 1 picture, about the Members of the 4th Port Credit Sentinel Rover Crew who turned out to help clean away the burn out cottage, to make way for the trailer for Mr. Ivor & his birds to live in.

Town of Mississauga - Council Minutes
- 1971, Jan. 13,  soon after the fire the Town of Mississauga contacts Mr. Ivor as to if he needs help and he says no - odd.  Not sure of the reason, too proud, still thinking he should just give up or maybe he was getting so much help from the community.  Still the Town was concerned and asked for a report from staff - no reports from the 1970 survived sadly.

Architect offers aid to replace sanctuary
Toronto Star - Jan. 26, 1971, - pg.# -
- More help pledged.

Architect offers Ivor services
Mississauga Times - Jan. 27, 1971, - Pg.# -
- More help pledged.

Owenwood school children raise bird sanctuary funds
Mississauga Times - Jan. 27, 1971, - Pg.# -
- 3 big pictures of grade school kids doing a sale of items for fund raising.

More than $17,000 donated to restore bird sanctuary
Toronto Star - Feb. 1, 1971, - pg.# -
- 1 picture ?, up-date on fund raising  & the upcoming benefit show.

Sheridan students organizing auction for Ivor hospital
Mississauga News - ? , 1971 ? - pg.# -
Notes efforts by Brian Durrant, they want to raise $30,000 & Cable 10 is helping.

Ivor benefit show postponed to April
Toronto Star - Mar. 3, 1971, - pg.# 3 -
- show put off to keep peoples feet warm.

Monument to kindness
Globe and Mail - Mar. 18, 1971, Thur. - pg.# 6 -
- Editorial about the efforts to rebuild the Bird Sanctuary.

Trailer home for Mississauga Naturalist
Globe and Mail - Apr. 8, 1971, Thur. - pg.# 3 - By Tiber Kalley
- 1 picture, follow-up story caption.

For Roy Ivor’s benefit
Mississauga Times - Apr. 21, 1971, - Pg.# -
- about the line up for the Ivor benefit show and where to buy tickets.

Stars to aid benefit show for Roy Ivor
Globe and Mail - May 1, 1971, Sat - pg.# 14
- Announcement of the Roy Ivor benefit show.

Benefit Concert - poster
May 2, 1971, 8 pm. At Huron Park Area

Erindale birdman has to slow down
Toronto Star - Jul. 7, 1971, - pg.# -
- Looks like the 1 picture goes with the article, picture starts one of the patron’s. He has to turn away some people & Bernice helping out.

Beaten by fire? - that’s for the birds
Globe and Mail - Dec. 27, 1971 - pg.# 35, Front page of section - By Martin O’Malley
4 pictures, follow-up to fire story.

After a fashion - Owls hung in window may save lives of migrating birds
Globe and Mail - Dec. 28, 1971 - pg.# 11 - By Zena Cherry
- Roy Ivor noted in pasting.

One year after fire
Birdman is alive and well in Mississauga
Mississauga News - Dec. 29, 1971, - pg.# - By Linda Reed
- how things are going.

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1972

Golden Eagle thanks its benefactor
Toronto Star - Oct. 26, 1972, Tues. - pg.# TO-30 (front page of section 2) - By Frank Calleja
- 1 large picture, just a reminder he was still around & doing good works.

Tasty morsel for an owl
Toronto Star - Nov. 3, 1972, Tues. - pg.# - By Frank Calleja
- 1 big picture of Betty Herson feeding an owl.

‘Cared for 800 injured birds’
Toronto Star - Nov. 11, 1972, Sat. - pg.# 11 - Editorial letter by Mrs. L. Hicks (Toronto)
- good & hard work by Roy Ivor.

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1973

Ivor bird sanctuary struck again by fire
Toronto Star - Jul. 10, 1973, - pg.# - By (?) David Norris
- Roy’s trailer almost burns down.

A V.I.P. (Very interesting person), and me
Mississauga News - Oct. 10, 1973, - pg.# - By Kathleen Hicks
- An interview with Roy Ivor & details of the “plaudits bestowed upon you.”

Roy Ivor has never turned away a bird yet
Sanctuary destroyed by fire being rebuilt
Globe and Mail - Nov. 2, 1973 - pg.# 1, front of third section - By Peter Whelan
- big picture, follow-up story.

All is not lost
Globe and Mail - Dec. 21, 1973 - pg.# 6 - By Geoffrey Stevens
- Order of Canada announcements.

‘Why me?’ asks Ivor
Two will be honored
Mississauga News - Dec. 26, 1973, - pg.# -
- 2 pictures, shows the two Mississaugans to get the Order of Canada.

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1974

Birds can produce some color oddities
Toronto Star - Jul. 20, 1974, Sat. - pg.# G-8 - By Hugh Halliday
- white birds and animals.

Hubberts turn love of birds to His and Hers poetic works
Globe and Mail - Aug. 7, 1974, Wed. - pg.# 32 - By Robert Rife
- Shipping an Golden Eagle to Roy Ivor.

Roy Ivor in hospital
Mississauga News - Sept. 25, 1974, - pg.# -
- Mr. Ivor in the intensive care unit of Mississauga Hospital. Note the person who is making the film about Roy’s work, Lauri Prey.

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1975

Birdman - now 95 - makes birthday wish
Mississauga News - Jan. 8, 1975, - pg.# Front page -
- 1 picture of Mr. Ivor with birthday cake, list of his accomplishments, so far, and his wish that the bird sanctuary goes on after he dies.

Sanctuary needs aid - Order of Canada presentation to Roy Ivor
Toronto Star - Feb. 1, 1975, Sat. - pg.# C-3 - Letter to editor by Dorothy Kake (Toronto)
- large picture of Order of Canada being presented to Roy Ivor with letter saying need money for sanctuary & government will not help.

Birdman honored
- unknown - 1975 -
- 1 picture of Lieutenant-Governor Pauline McGibbon reading the Order of Canada citation to Roy Ivor, at the special investiture held at Queen’s park

‘Donate money to bird sanctuary’
Toronto Star - Feb. 17, 1975, Mon. - pg.# C-5 - Letter to editor by Patricia Stilson, (Capreol)
- need more money.

Roy Ivor moves
Mississauga Times - Feb. 19, 1975, Wed. - pg.# -
- 1 picture, he has to move into a nursing home & stop living at his beloved Windinglane Bird Sanctuary forever.

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1978

Wildlife refuse, work of 2 lives, faces city threat
Naturalist says Mississauga sewer would destroy the balance of nature
Globe and Mail - Jan. 30, 1978, Monday - By Donald Grant
- front page of the section, 2 pictures, big spread.

Naturalist's work would have been destroyed
Globe and Mail - Mar 2, 1978, Thursday - pg.# 4 - By Donald Grant.

Sewer threat to sanctuary 'unconscionable'
Globe and Mail - Feb 4, 1978, Saturday - pg.# 6 - By Robert K. MacFarlane - Letter?

Bird sanctuary receives support
Mississauga News - Apr. 5, 1978, - pg.# 10 -
- notes how the Durham Region Field Naturalists’ joined in the protest against the sewer. Where is the report of the South Peel Naturalists’ coming to Bernice’s aid?

No time to count 'babies' in this full bird sanctuary
Globe and Mail - Jul 11, 1978, Tuesday - pg.# P.12 - By Donald Grant.
- feel good piece that there was someone looking after all the cute little baby, orphaned animals.

2 Thanksgiving gobblers won't be gobbled up
Globe and Mail - Oct 5, 1978, Thursday - pg.# P.5 - By Donald Grant.
- about the weird, rare and wonderful birds & animals that are taken to the Roy Ivor bird Sanctuary.

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1979

Sanctuary moves into kitchen
Not dinner in the oven, but baby birds and animals
Globe and Mail - May 24, 1979, Thursday - pg.# T.2 - By Donald Grant.
- another cute baby animal story of how Bernice does what ever she can to ensure those in her care live to fly free or run about the forest.

Dec. 10, 1979, Dr. Hance Roy Ivor - passes on.
His life was proof that love and caring can heal, mind, body & soul, of man and beast.

Roy Ivor Well-known ornithologist ran Mississauga sanctuary
Globe and Mail - Dec 13, 1979, Thursday - pg.# P.64 -
- Notes his death and funeral.

Obituary - Ivor, Dr. Hance Roy
Toronto Star - Dec. 12, 1979, Thur. - pg.# B17 -
- actual death notice, say that for a man so loved by the community “A private family service was held”.

Birdman of Mississauga dies near 100th birthday
Toronto Star - Dec. 13, 1979, Thur. - pg.# D23 - By Frank Calleja
- 1 file picture, details of his life & suffering.

Roy Ivor dead at 99
Mississauga Times - Dec. 12, 1979, Wed. - pg.# 2 -
- oddly little.

‘Birdman of Mississauga’ passes away
Roy Ivor: a legend in his own time
Mississauga News - Dec. 12, 1979, - pg.# 2 - By Cathy Webb
- 1 picture, list of his life many accomplishments.

Roy Ivor - a special citizen
Mississauga News - Dec. 12, 1979, - pg.# 4 - Editorial
- more about his laurels.

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1980

'Bird lady' weighs appeal of ruling against land claim
Globe and Mail - Feb 15, 1980, Friday - pg.# P.4 - By David Logan
- A very sad story about how lawyers, the law and reality conspire against those who best works in our community.  In the end, Bernice could not buy justice in Canadian Court with the little money she had.  Worse of all, this legal defeat and its cost would have drained the life from poor old (literally), Bernice.  This is how our world is destroyed a piece at a time - so never wonder why or how.  This story also offers more evidence of how the Federation of Ontario Naturalists hounded her draining her spirit even more.

Bernice’s for the birds
A sanctuary from man’s inhumanity
Sunday Sun - Mar. 23, 1980, Sun. - pg.# S5 - By Dan Proudfoot
- 2 page spread, 5 big colour pictures, about her work.

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1982

Legal notices, court proceedings, tenders and regulations report Courts
Globe and Mail - May 21, 1982, Friday -  pg.# 11
- Bernice lost the case for the 2 acres that historical have been the core of the Roy Ivor Bird Sanctuary - we all lost.  Even thou the City bought the land in 1987, surely this battle drained her ever so deeply.

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1985

Report on Osgoode Hall court proceedings COURTS
Globe and Mail - Apr 23, 1985, Tuesday - pg.# B8

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1987

Mississauga’s ‘bird lady’ enjoying wild evenings with her visiting owls
Mississauga News - May 2, 1987, - pg.# - By Vic MacBournis, City Editor
- talks about how she taught owl to be a better mother & sanctuary is very expensive.

City buys bird sanctuary - to a picture of the article.
Mississauga News - May 20, 1987, - pg.# -
- 1 file picture of Roy, City buys the 2.1 acres that were the old core of bird sanctuary that was owned by Ivor’s son.

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1993

Rare eagle a danger to thief, owner says
Toronto Star - Mar 29, 1993,  - pg.# A6, Section D [FIN Edition]
- Part of a larger story made up of short stories BUT one where the wording had to be changed between versions so it would not sound like a monster had been unleashed ("he's a meat-eater who can rip your arm off. "), from the Roy Ivor bird Sanctuary.

Sanctuary owner desperate over stolen eagle
Toronto Star - Mar 30, 1993,  - pg.# A8, Section D [AM Edition] - By Donovan Vincent
- 1 picture, No, there is no arm-ripping-off-flying-monster-from-Mexico on the lose.

Rare eagle stolen from bird sanctuary
Woman pines for friend of 15 years.
Mississauga News - Apr. ?, 1993, - pg.# -
- 2 pictures, Mexican eagle was stolen.

Baby raccoon gets helping hand
Toronto Star - Aug 15, 1993,  - pg.# G6 [STARSHIP - SU2 Edition]
- In the kids section, teaches about they should respect nature and not try to take wild animals as pets.

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1995

Credit's champion pleads for river
Toronto Star - Dec 15, 1995 - BRAMPTON pg. BR.2 - By Frank Calleja
- another person who fights to nature - build next to Roy Ivor's Bird Sanctuary and get an award?

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2000

Ground floor poured at Palace in Sawmill Valley
Condo's top price will be more than $1 million
Toronto Star - Oct 28, 2000 - NEW IN HOMES pg.# 2 - By STAR STAFF
- Development with not real thought to future generations is the curse of Mississauga, along with the Queen of Sprawl, Hazel McCallion. "Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion issued a challenge to developer David Feldman" ... "I want the next high rise you build to be really posh," said the mayor, even though the 24-storey-high Palace, where prices exceed $1 million, will be one of the most prestigious condos in her city." Truly development is all the Mayor cares about as it is money in the City coughers, which she loves to use.

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2001

Profiles from the Past - Roy Ivor
Newsletter of the Mississauga Heritage Foundation - Spring 2001 Vol. 14/Issue 2.
One of a series - this particular profile was researched by Simona Laiu, Historian for Heritage Mississauga.

Furry and feathered friends need homes:
Some animals will spend the holidays out in the cold, searching for scraps to eat.
Truro Daily News - Dec. 12, 2001 - By Lynn Curwin
- the story of Ivor making saddles for a little bird so it could walk up-right, is often repeated.

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2003

Why aren't buildings designed for the birds?
Toronto Star - Jul 12, 2003 - CONDO LIVING pg.# 2 - By Ellen Moorhouse
- story of taking birds to Roy Ivor’s bird sanctuary and bird mortality caused by windows.

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2004

A Bird Story
Fur-Bearer Defenders' Christmas flyer, 2004 - By Barbara May Easton
- First printed 1987, by Barbara May Easton (Fur & Feathers) - would very much like some contact information for this lady.

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2008

The long and winding lane
Mississauga News - BLOG - Sept. 5, 2008 - By John Stewart
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Mayor drops by for 90th party
Mississauga News - Sept. 10, 2008 - By Helen Mirrless
- 1 picture, Bernice Emery has her birthday in retirement/nursing home.

Builders lot. 92 acres - Ideal for custom home or to be sub-divided
Mississauga News - Oct. 3, 2008 - pg.# RE3 - By Gary Betts, Sales Representative
- The Real-estate listing that started the panic.

Future of bird sanctuary in question
Mississauga News - Nov. 11, 2008 - By Julie Slack
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City wants to buy bird sanctuary
Mississauga News - Dec. 11, 2008 - By Julie Slack
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Council makes good call
Mississauga News - Editorial - Dec. 16, 2008 - By unknown
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Worthy of protection
Mississauga News - December 16, 2008, Tues. - pg.# - Letter to editor by Nancy Newton
- short letter about the need to buy what is claimed to be the bird sanctuary.

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2009

Regarding the Roy Ivor Bird Sanctuary
Letter to City of Mississauga - Jan 7, 2009- By Donald Barber, FCB & CRRA
- Lets keep the dream alive!  Keep the Bird Sanctuary working doing bird & native animal rescue - renaming the woods and other items, like the local deer, were noted as secondary items.

Honour the Birdman
Mississauga News - Jan. 13, 2009, - pg.# A4 - Letter to editor by Donald Barber
- the letter I sent to the Mayor & Councillors of Mississauga - before for I discovered what I know now - still a good idea to start here.

Wildlife centre eyes new site in Mississauga
Toronto Star - Jan. 21, 2009, Wed. - pg.# A12 - Mike Funston, Staff reporter
- Quieter, more natural setting at old Winding Lane Bird Sanctuary.

Group eyes sanctuary as new home
Mississauga News - Jan. 24-25, 2009, Sat. - pg.# 6 - Torstar Network
- The Mississauga News, smaller version of the same Toronto Star article.

Birdman's legacy
Mississauga News - Jan. 28, 2009 - pg.# - By Robin Farr, Guest Column
- Robin Farr is a Lorne Park resident. He was director of publishing at Ryerson Press, which published I Live With Birds in 1968.

'Bird lady', 90, dies
Mississauga News - Jan. 28, 2009, Wed. - pg.# - By jslack@mississauga.net

 

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