Stephen Leacock
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Stephen Butler Leacock was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. From 1915 to 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.
Leacock, c. 1913
Stephen Leacock House in Orillia, Ontario
Leacock's grave (shaded) in the churchyard in Sibbald's Point
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literat
Stephen Leacock
…museum and National Historic Site of Canada. Gossip provided by the local barber, Jefferson Short, provided Leacock with the material which would become Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), set in the thinly-disguised Mariposa. Leacock was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1937, nominally for his academic…
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Mr. Smith, as depicted in a 1912 version of the book.