As we were leaving Thunder Bay we went to see the Terry Fox monument, there to commemorate his courage against cancer and his dying in the Thunder Bay hospital. All that day we could see Lake Superior, that is one HUGE lake! It was also a long day, we drove from just outside of Thunder Bay to Sault. St. Marie. We had camped at Rainbow Falls Campsite not far out of Thunder Bay, there were lots of rabbits there who were obviously used to people. Continuing along the road we came to White River, where Winnie-the-Pooh started. A young bear cub had been orphaned and brought to the town of White River. A train carrying army troops had stopped in White River (White River was founded because of the railway). The little black bear cub was purchased for $20 by Lieutenant Harry Coleburn (this was a pretty common thing to do in 1914), who named her Winnipeg after his hometown. Everyone called her Winnie, and she became a pet for the soldiers. When the Lieutenant was sent to England to fight, he gave Winnie a home in the London zoo. Winnie was loved by all in London, so the Lieutenant donated her to the zoo, where she lived for the rest of her life. While she was at the zoo, a man named A.A. Milne and his son, Christopher Robin, went to visit Winnie. Christophr Robin recieved abear for his birthday, which he named Winnie-the-Pooh, after Winnie. Christopher Robin added 'the-Pooh' to her name after his pet swan, Pooh. A.A. Milne wrote about his son, his bear and his son's stuffed animals in his popular books. Winnie died in the zoo on May 12, 1934 when she was 20 years old. After White River, we continued on, when we reached Wawa, a gold rush town, we saw the worlds largest goose. there to acknowledge the vast number of Canadian geese that stop here on the yearly migrations, Wawa means "wild goose" in Ojibway.
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