Stephen Butler Leacock 1869-1944

Stephen Leacock 1869-1944

and

The Old Brewery Bay

There are three plaques at this location.
The other two can be seen further down this page.

Photos by contributor Wayne Adam - January, 2010

 

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Plaque Location

The County of Simcoe
The City of Orillia
Beside the parking lot, at the northern end of Leacock Lane
1.28 km from the intersection of Atherley Road and Highway 12
via Atherley Road, Forest Avenue North
Museum Drive and Leacock Lane

Coordinates: N 44 36.503 W 79 23.622

Plaque Text

Born in England, Leacock was educated at Upper Canada College and at the Universities of Toronto and Chicago. He spent the greater part of his career at McGill, teaching and publishing in the fields of history and political science. It is, however, as a humorist that he is chiefly known and among a considerable volume of writings, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) is the work that assured him a reputation throughout the English speaking world. The peculiar charm of his work lies in the evocation, through exaggeration and the identification of incongruities, of the humour of ordinary people in commonplace situations.

Photos by contributor Wayne Adam - January, 2010

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.

Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - January, 2010

Photo Source - Wikimedia

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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Stephen Butler Leacock 1869-1944
Stephen Butler Leacock 1869-1944

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Upper Canada College

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