During five tumultuous weeks following the Pigeon King International bankruptcy last June, a team of workers euthanized 175,000 pigeons in 13 holding barns across the province. The cost, borne by the province's taxpayers and funnelled through the Ontario Farm Animal Council: nearly $90,000.
Clarification added Nov. 24, 2008
Updated with attachement Nov. 28, 2008
They can enter his property, seize his money, house, or automobile and even redirect his mail. The court order appointing BDO Dunwoody Limited as interim receiver of Arlan Galbraith’s personal assets will likely even pit them against Canada Revenue agents who last week showed up at the office of the solicitor handling the sale of the former pigeon king’s Waterloo home and scooped up the proceeds.
A bankruptcy inspector for a former Waterloo, Ontario business is petitioning the business’ former owner into personal bankruptcy.
When a Myerstown,Pennsylvania squab producer began hearing about a Waterloo, Ontario pigeon breeding business, he decided to contact the owner.
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In mid September, Better Farming staff headed north, retracing the Pigeon King’s route from Waterloo to Cochrane. They inspected some of the assets purchased with the now-bankrupt company’s money and asked neighbours about the man who left roughly 1,000 investors holding worthless pigeons.
Details emerging of what’s owed to creditors in the recent bankruptcy of Waterloo-based Pigeon King International Inc. are raising more questions than answers.
They’ve called to file their complaints. But as of today, not one of 17 former contract holders with Arlan Galbraith’s Pigeon King International Inc. (PKI) had supplied police with the paperwork records to support their concerns.
Canadian contract growers with Pigeon King International who find themselves out of pocket after the sudden collapse of the company in May might find some relief through a national safety net program.
No Canadian authorities have found anything wrong with Arlan Galbraith’s now- insolvent pigeon breeding scheme but that didn’t prevent four states from reining in the pigeon king, as he likes to be called, and now former growers and the professionals left to clean up Galbraith’s mess are left with more questions than answers. The biggest question: do some growers have to lose everything?