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Fred Cousineau — Fred was born in small town of Victoria Harbour, Ontario, Canada, located on Georgian Bay, part of Lake Huron. His first love is hockey and as a result he always collected, played with and traded hockey cards as a kid. Unfortunately, not many of those early cards survived to the present. Fred lived in a house with seven siblings, and it was therefore difficult to hide things … such as hockey cards, etc.

Fred played some local junior hockey in Penetanguishene, Ontario and then Varsity hockey at the University of Guelph in the late 1960's. After Guelph, Fred attended the University of Toronto, obtained a teaching degree and taught elementary and high school for 31 years. During the late 1980's, he began to once again take an interest in collecting hockey cards and other memorabilia related to hockey. Fred had always been a Red Wings fan and therefore amassed a large collection of Detroit Red Wing cards dating Back to the 1950's.

Fred's passion become a hobby (his wife might say an obsession) and now that he no longer teaches, he has an eBay store where he sells some of the 100,000+ cards he has have accumulated.

In addition to his sports cards collection, Fred also collects non-sports card sets which include Parkhurst's “Missiles and Satellites” (V339-7) and other non-sports cards related to TV and “Folk Heroes” such as Geronimo, Daniel Boone, Davey Crockett and Jesse James.

Fred is constantly being given binders and sets of cards by his friends who don't know what else to do with them and want to get rid of them.