The Royal 91原创 Mint is honouring Superman鈥檚 91原创 heritage by featuring the Man of Steel on a set of gold and silver coins. A pity the superhero was not more open about his northern roots.
While Superman wasn鈥檛 born in Canada, one of his creators was. Joe Shuster, the son of Jewish immigrants, was born in Toronto in 1914, where, as a boy, he scrounged in the alleys behind stores, looking for scraps of paper to draw on. Unlike his cousin Frank Shuster, who was half of the Wayne and Shuster comedy team, Joe had to go south of the border to win acclaim. That happened after he teamed up with Jerry Siegel to create the most successful fictional character of the 20th century.
In the early days, Superman鈥檚 alter ego, Clark Kent, was a reporter for the Daily Star, named after the Toronto Star, for which Joe Shuster had delivered papers as a boy. Alas, that connection to Canada was severed when the fictional newspaper was renamed the Daily Planet.
Superman never said much about Canada, focusing more on his home planet of Krypton, but we can assume his flights often took him into 91原创 airspace.
Even though 91原创 locations (rural Alberta, Calgary and Niagara Falls, Ont.) were used in filming the Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve, and parts of the most recent film, Man of Steel, were filmed in Ucluelet and at the Cassidy Inn, the superhero remained quiet about his 91原创 connections. Sure, those 91原创 locations were stand-ins for American places, but it wouldn鈥檛 have hurt to sew a little maple leaf on his cape.
Up, up and away, eh?
