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Rachel Aparicio is currently a contributor to Legion of Leia, The Daily Fandom & Fan/Fic Magazine. She can be found on Twitter @rachelawrites and on Tumblr

April Fool’s Day is well underway all over the internet, and The Canadian National Library and Archives has gotten in on the fun by ‘declassifying’ the military records of one James “Logan”  Howlett, more commonly known as Wolverine.  A Facebook post from the library states:

Logan was born in 1882 in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, to wealthy landowner Elizabeth Howlett and her grounds-keeper Thomas Logan. Logan’s journals provide valuable insight into his early life in Canada, including work as a miner in a British Columbia stone quarry, a fur trader for the Hudson’s Bay Company, and a homesteader in the Canadian Rockies. His military career spanned multiple conflicts, making his personnel records an unprecedented study in Canadian military history.

It then goes on to detail his service in various global wars and conflicts, ending with his adoption of the moniker Wolverine and stating that he worked for “various NGOs,” a clever and fairly obvious euphemism for his membership with the X-Men.

The post also includes a weathered picture of Hugh Jackman, the famed actor who has brought Wolverine to life in all the current X-Men movies to date, and an “Attestation Paper” with basic in-take information. While some April Fool’s jokes can be a bit mean spirited, or have inadvertent negative fall-out, this is a bout of April Fools humor with nothing but lighthearted geek fun at its core. Well played, Canadian National Library, well played.

Source: ComicBook.com

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Rachel Aparicio

Rachel is a PhD drop-out and fangirl extraordinaire (at least on her better days). She is painfully addicted to genre TV and cute cat videos. Currently a contributor to Legion of Leia, The Daily Fandom and Fan/Fic Magazine, she also has a BA and MSc in Women's & Gender studies, and the student loan payments to prove it.