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The Old Brewery Bay

Photos and transcription by contributor Wayne Adam - January, 2010

Plaque Location

In the City of Orillia in the County of Simcoe
at coordinates N 44 36.503 W 79 23.622

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Plaque Text

This property on Lake Couchiching, which Stephen Leacock purchased in 1908 and named "The Old Brewery Bay", was a source of creativity and happiness for Canada's most celebrated humorist. Here, he absorbed the impressions which inspired his masterpiece, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, and indulged his passions for fishing, sailing, mixed farming, and hosting family and friends. His personality and his status as a world renowned author and academic are reflected in the present residence, whose construction in 1928 recycled components of a previous cottage which stood closer to the lake.

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