Lonely Planet Best Road Trips Ontario & Québec by Lonely Planet

Author:Lonely Planet
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781837581269
Publisher: Lonely Planet Global Limited
Published: 2022-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

WINNIE THE WHO?

The little logging town of White River (www.whiteriver.ca) lays claim to being the home of the original Winnie the Pooh.

As the story goes, back in 1914, a trapper returned to White River with an orphaned baby black bear cub. A veterinarian soldier named Harry Colebourn was on a rail layover in White River when he came across the trapper and fell in love with the cub, purchasing her for $20. He named her ‘Winnipeg.’ She boarded the Québec-bound troop train with Harry, en route to his native Britain.

When Harry was called to serve in France, he left Winnie in the care of the London Zoo, where she became an instant hit. One of the many hearts she won over belonged to a young Christopher Robin Milne, son of AA Milne. A frequent visitor to the zoo, young Christopher’s pet name for the little bear was ‘Winnie-the-Pooh.’ In his 1926 first edition, AA Milne noted that his stories were about his son, the bear from the London Zoo, and Christopher’s stuffed animals.

Eventually, Disney purchased Milne’s tales of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin, and...the rest is history. A monument to both bears, actual and fictional, stands in the park in White River, by the visitors center.

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