Description: Winnie The Pooh: Where It All Began - White River Canada - Aug 22 1992 From the early event celebrating the history of where the story of Winnie the Pooh started. See below On August 24, 1914, a train carrying the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps stopped halfway between Captain Harry Colebourn’s hometown of Winnipeg and Valcartier, Quebec. Colebourn and his fellow soldiers were on their way to England to fight in the First World War. During their layover in White River, a trapper approached Colebourn on the platform with something to sell. Later that evening, Colebourn wrote in his journal: “Left Port Arthur 7am on train. Bought Bear. 20 dollars.” Colebourn named the orphaned black-bear cub Winnie, after Winnipeg, and brought her with him to southern England, where she served as the unofficial mascot for a Canadian cavalry regiment. Then, in 1919, he donated her to the London Zoo — that’s where she caught the attention of a boy named Christopher Robin and his father, A.A. Milne. Milne went on to write celebrated stories about a bear named Winnie the Pooh and the adventures he had in the Hundred Acre Wood with Christopher Robin and a cast of now-familiar animal characters.
Price: 8.4 USD
Location: Southgate, Michigan
End Time: 2025-02-06T20:26:07.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Year: 1992
Character/Story/Theme: Winnie the Pooh
Country/Region of Manufacture: Canada
Brand: Winnie The Pooh
Type: Single
