Conclusion
The final episode of Mr. Dressup was taped on February 14, 1996. Coombs spent most of the next few years touring college campuses giving talks about his time on the show (his target audience being students who grew up with his series), before he died of a stroke on September 18, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, when he was seventy-three years old.
Rebroadcasts of the series continued for a decade after it ended, until CBC announced that it was taking Mr. Dressup out of its weekday morning lineup and moving it to Sunday mornings effective July 3, 2006. The final repeat telecast aired on September 3, 2006.
Due to the long run of the series, several generations of Canadian children, as well as kids growing up in northern regions of the United States which received the CBC signal, grew up watching Mr. Dressup and his adventures. Ernie Coombs and the character of Mr. Dressup have become strong Canadian icons and a part of Canadian pop culture.
As of 2010, two iconic elements of the series have been preserved for public viewing. They are Casey's tree-house; which is on display in the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in downtown Toronto and the Tickle Trunk (with assorted props) is on display in the CBC Museum in Toronto.
On November 26, 2012, Mr Dressup (along with Casey and Finnegan) were featured in a Google Doodle on the Canadian Google website as a tribute to Coombs' 85th birthday.
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