In 1960 he created a team of Canadian characters : a beaver named Basil , an Eskimo Ootuk and Daniel O'Rourke , a Royal Canadian Mountie figure .
In 1960 he began performing as a children 's entertainer going under his ancestral family name of O'Reilly .
In 1960 he created a team of Canadian characters : a beaver named Basil , an Eskimo Ootuk and Daniel O'Rourke , a Royal Canadian Mountie figure and began performing as a children 's entertainer going under his ancestral family name of O'Reilly .