Canadian accounts go back a year earlier, to 1858, when a businessman named James Miller Williams decided to dig a well for drinking water outside the town of Bear Creek, Ontario.

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Even then, the worst of them showed him clutching a teddy bear, sitting shirtless near a pool, and drinking with friends.

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