Read more about Christopher Robin Milne and his childhood toys, here in the TIME Vault: Bear Essentials Correction: The original version of this story incorrectly referred to Winnipeg. It is a city.

In Disney’s new film Christopher Robin, the young boy who grew up playing ... This, along with the real-life black bear Winnipeg that was in the London Zoo at the time, served as the ...

Christopher Robin was a real boy Milne had one child ... Harry Colebourn—who was originally from England but living in Winnipeg, Canada—was traveling through Ontario en route to military ...

Christopher Robin, son of AA Milne and star of the books ... named Winnie in the London Zoo who had been the mascot for the Winnipeg regiment of the Canadian army. Pooh was the name of a swan ...

Winnipeg lived at London Zoo from 1915-1934 ... where she was much loved for her playfulness and gentleness. A. A. Milne's son Christopher Robin was a big fan and changed the name of his own ...

The stories were based on the fictional adventures of Christopher Robin’s toy bear, while being initially inspired by Winnipeg the Bear. But Milne’s Pooh Bear character was a boy, as was ...

There are any number of minefields into which “Goodbye Christopher Robin” might easily have ... Bear Named Winnie,” about the real-life Winnipeg animal who wound up in the London Zoo ...

Christopher Robin Milne (1920-1996 ... where a black bear rescued from Winnipeg—“Winnie,” of course—made its home. And in Milne’s popular 1924 poetry book When We Were Very Young ...

The stuffed bear is named 'Winnie" after a Canadian bear named "WInnipeg" who the Milnes ... who is bullied without mercy for being 'Christopher Robin.' But, of course, you won't see that in ...

Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood where Christopher Robin played, you’ll find the enchanted neighborhood where a bear, pig, rabbit, donkey, owl and, inexplicably, two kangaroos and a tiger lived and ...

Boat Rocker and Shamier Anderson and Stephan James’ Bay Mills Studios are developing Christopher Robin, an R-rated comedic reimagining of A.A. Milne’s beloved characters, Christopher Robin and ...