Winnie the Bear

Other than flooding and mosquitoes, this is what we're famous for: a bear named "Winnie". He was a real bear, you know.... That was all before he inspired A. A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" and was later recreated into Disney's famous "Pooh Bear". During the Great War, a lieutenant along with his MB regiment brought a bear from Canada into Britian. He named him after his hometown and left him at the London Zoo. The rest is history. This is a monument set up at the Assiniboine Zoo right in town.