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'''Ernest "Ernie" Coombs''', [[Order of Canada|CM]] (November 26, 1927 |
'''Ernest "Ernie" Coombs''', [[Order of Canada|CM]] (November 26, 1927 {{ndash}} September 18, 2001) who was most famous for being the host of the popular [[Canada|Canadian]] [[television]] TV show called ''[[Mr. Dressup]]''. 'Mr. Dressup was on TV for a very long time. |
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He was born in [[Lewiston, Maine]] in 1927. After he finished school at the [[North Yarmouth Academy]] he decided to find work entertaining children. He first started learning how to do this when he moved to Canada in 1963 and started working for [[Fred Rogers]] on an early version of ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]''. This show was on the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] TV channel. After Rogers moved back to the United States in 1964 Coombs stayed in Canada. His next work was on a TV show called ''[[Butternut Square]]'' which was on TV from 1964 to 1967. |
He was born in [[Lewiston, Maine]] in 1927. After he finished school at the [[North Yarmouth Academy]] he decided to find work entertaining children. He first started learning how to do this when he moved to Canada in 1963 and started working for [[Fred Rogers]] on an early version of ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]''. This show was on the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] TV channel. After Rogers moved back to the United States in 1964 Coombs stayed in Canada. His next work was on a TV show called ''[[Butternut Square]]'' which was on TV from 1964 to 1967. |
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After ''"Butternut Square"'' ended Coombs started the ''"Mr. Dressup"'' TV show. It would become one of Canada's longest-running |
After ''"Butternut Square"'' ended Coombs started the ''"Mr. Dressup"'' TV show. It would become one of Canada's longest-running children's TV shows. As Mr. Dressup he would do art, sing songs, tell stories and play children's games. In each show Mr. Dressup would dress up in costumes that he would find in a box he called his ''"Tickle Trunk"''. |
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Coombs became a Canadian citizen in 1994. |
Coombs became a Canadian citizen in 1994. |
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Ernest "Ernie" Coombs, CM (November 26, 1927 – September 18, 2001) who was most famous for being the host of the popular Canadian television TV show called Mr. Dressup. 'Mr. Dressup was on TV for a very long time.
He was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1927. After he finished school at the North Yarmouth Academy he decided to find work entertaining children. He first started learning how to do this when he moved to Canada in 1963 and started working for Fred Rogers on an early version of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. This show was on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation TV channel. After Rogers moved back to the United States in 1964 Coombs stayed in Canada. His next work was on a TV show called Butternut Square which was on TV from 1964 to 1967.
After "Butternut Square" ended Coombs started the "Mr. Dressup" TV show. It would become one of Canada's longest-running children's TV shows. As Mr. Dressup he would do art, sing songs, tell stories and play children's games. In each show Mr. Dressup would dress up in costumes that he would find in a box he called his "Tickle Trunk".
Coombs became a Canadian citizen in 1994.
His TV show did not stop until February 1996. The same year, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada.
Repeats of his TV show were shown on CBC Television until 2006.
After he retired from TV Coombs continued to work entertaining children and did a lot of work to raise money for many children's charities.
Coombs had a stroke on September 10, 2001. He died on September 18, 2001 in Toronto, Ontario. He was 73 years old when he died.
Other websites
- Ernie Coombs' Order of Canada Citation
- Ernie Coombs' CBC personalities page
- Canadian Connections' Ernie Coombs page
- The Mr. Dressup Pictures and Sound Page by Buffalonian Steve Cichon
Multimedia
- CBC Archives Remembering Mr. Dressup - CBC News 2001