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Many don't know it, but there was a real Winnie-the-Pooh.  In August of
1914 Lieutenant Harry Colebourn, a Veterinary Officer with the Canadian
34th Fort Garry Horse (Manitoba), was travelling by train to enroll in the
Canadian Army Veterinary Corp at Valcartier, Quebec and notice a man on the
station platform at White River Bend (Ontario) with an American black bear
cub.  The man was a trapper who had shot and killed the bear's mother.
Coleburn purchased the bear cub for $20 and it became the mascot of the 2nd
Canadian Infantry Brigade.
As the Brigade prepared to ship out to France, in December 9, 1914,
Coleburn offered the cub to the London Zoo, planning to pick it up again
when the war ended.  However, when he returned in 1918, the bear was so
popular that he decided to let the Zoo keep it.  It was there that
Christopher Robin was delighted with Winnie  (short, by the way, for
Winnipeg) that his father wrote the story.  Winnie lived until May 12, 1934.

Earl Sande
Semi-retired International School Librarian
10189 133 Street
Surrey, BC
V3T3Y8

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