Bear shares his hard earned knowledge and behind the scenes view on the antiques business on the Canadian Prairies. He has been in the business for 34+ years as a professional picker/antiques dealer in Manitoba, Canada. Having had a shop since he was 24, establishing it in 1994, he had been picking antiques and collectibles as a profession since 1989, long before it was a topic of reality TV shows. The majority of his life he has been involved in "junking"/picking/antiquing and otherwise searching for treasures of various kinds, since the age of 7. He also has a passion for re-use, and does sculpture from found/salvaged materials, as well as being a writer. He also has had other additional businesses in the salvage/reuse end of things, and still does some scrap metal recycling on the side.