Winnie-the-Pooh turns 100 — and the real bear was even sweeter

A century ago this month, A.A. Milne published 'Winnie-the-Pooh.' But the real Winnie was a tiny black bear cub that a Canadian soldier, Harry Colebourn, bought for $20 on a railway platform in 1914 on his way to the First World War. Winnie became his regiment's mascot, then the darling of the London Zoo — where a little boy named Christopher Robin played in her enclosure and borrowed her name for his teddy bear. Colebourn's great-granddaughter Lindsay Mattick still tells Winnie's story, a century on.