If you work at the Dundurn National Historic Site, the Castle of which was once home to Sir Allan MacNab, you know that not a week goes by without a visitor asking after the birds that used to be housed in its park.
But while the Dundurn Park Aviary is part of the nostalgic experience of Dundurn Castle, it was not what Sir Allan MacNab would have known or envisioned during his premiership in 1855, the year to which the Castle was restored in the mid-1990s. The MacNab-era state of the site predated the aviary, and for reasons of historical consistency, the birds needed to find a new home.



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