Walt Disney's Canadian Connection, 1963

In 1963 the animation pioneer tells the CBC biography program Telescope about visiting Canada to see the place where his father grew up. "Yes, he was born in a little town, they called it Bluevale," said Disney. "And the Disney family were Anglo-Irish." Bluevale is about 50 kilometres east of the Lake Huron community of Goderich, Ont. Should Walt Disney count as an almost-Canadian?

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