Today, Oct. 14, 2016, marks the 90th birthday of
Winnie-the-Pooh. To celebrate everyone's favourite Silly Old
Bear and his friends, CBC Books has come up with "90 weird and wonderful facts
about the Hundred Acre Wood": http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/10/winnie-the-pooh-facts.html.
The real bear who inspired Winnie the Pooh was a Canadian
female black bear adopted as a cub by a Canadian veterinarian named Harry
Colebourn in 1914. Colebourn found the bear cub on a train platform in White River, Ontario,
and named the bear after his hometown of Winnipeg.
Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo where Christopher Robin Milne
saw him. The rest is history.
Here's a photo of my husband and our dog at Winnie's statue in White River.
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