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Timothy Belliveau's biography is currently hard to obtain and littered with potential inaccuracies due to lack of records and circulated myths.  According to his own words, his early years were all filled with adventure, hardship and traveling, claiming improbably to have killed a bear at the age of 10.  He was raised in Calgary in an upper middle Roman Catholic family though there are no documents to support date or place of birth.  As a child, Belliveau became fascinated with natural history, when his father took him to see the Royal Tyrrel Museum in Drumheller, AB.  He soon became versed in numerous aspects of Prehistoric zoology, primarily through drawing.  

When he was 16, Belliveau left home for a long series of part-time jobs including coffee barrista, night janitor, security guard, dishwasher, video rental, flyer delivery and ditch digging for home irrigation.  During this period of financial crisis he lived in a good number of different places including, half a dozen apartments, a church, under some plinths at at college, a motorhome in a parking and illegally squatting on government land in a tent.  

His middle-class background and academic success masked a growing contempt for what he saw as the empty materialism of North American society.  The works of Alexander Wilson, Hans Peter Duerr and Carlos Castaneda has a strong influence on Belliveau, and he dreamed about leaving society for a Thoreau-like period of solitary contemplation.  This he achieved, living in a tent in a Yokon forest for a summer.  Upon his return to Calgary he went through art college, and set to work on a glass art studio with his friends, Ryan Fairweather and Phil Bandura.