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Stephen Leacock 1869-1944

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
at the entrance to the museum.

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Plaque Text

Economist-Historian-Humorist. Stephen Leacock, born in England and brought up near Lake Simcoe, was educated at Upper Canada College and the Universities of Toronto and Chicago. He taught at Upper Canada College for some years and in the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University from 1901 to 1936. Literary Lapse, the first of his many humorous works, appeared in 1910. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, published in 1912, became a classic. Leacock's genius in applying "exaggeration and incongruous juxtaposition to ordinary people in every day situations" gained for him world-wide reputation.

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