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The Real Winnie: A One-of-a-Kind Bear Costume the memoirist and critic SamuelDescription Paperback by Val Shushkewich The story of Winnie, the real Canadian bear that captured the heart of Christopher, son of A. A. Milne, and became immortalized in the Winnie the Pooh stories, is told against the backdrop of the First World War. In August 1914, a Canadian soldier and veterinarian named Lieutenant Harry Colebourn, en route to a training camp in Quebec, purchased a black bear cub in White River, Ontario, which he named Winnipeg.