Description
The tale of Winnie, the true Canadian undergo that captured the guts of Christopher, son of A.A. Milne, and become immortalized within the Winnie the Pooh tales, is informed towards the backdrop of the First Global Struggle. In August 1914, a Canadian soldier and veterinarian named Lieutenant Harry Colebourn, en path to a coaching camp in Quebec, bought a black undergo cub in White River, Ontario, which he named Winnipeg.
First a regimental mascot for Canadians coaching for wartime carrier, Winnie then become a celeb appeal on the London Zoo, and in the long run impressed one of the most best possible-beloved characters in kids’s literature. For the ones many generations of readers who loved Winnie the Pooh, and for the ones intrigued through the original tales embedded in Canadian historical past, this ebook is a banquet of details about a one-of-a-sort undergo set all through a poignant duration of worldwide historical past.
As of late Winnie “lives on” on the London Zoo, in White River and in Winnipeg. Her outstanding legacy is well known in some ways – from statues and plaques to gala’s and museum galleries.
