The Royal Canadian Mint is honouring Superman鈥檚 Canadian 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 sa国际传媒, 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 sa国际传媒 was severed when the fictional newspaper was renamed the Daily Planet.
Superman never said much about sa国际传媒, focusing more on his home planet of Krypton, but we can assume his flights often took him into Canadian airspace.
Even though Canadian 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 Canadian connections. Sure, those Canadian 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?
