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Location: 50 Museum Drive, Orillia
Emplacement : 50, Museum Drive, Orillia
Coordinates · Coordonnées: 44.608396, -79.393999
Source: Parks Canada – Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada commemorative plaques (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)
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Stephen Leacock

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 evocations, through exaggeration and the identification of incongruities, of the humour of ordinary people in commonplace situations.

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Stephen Leacock

Politicologue et écrivain né en Angleterre, Leacock étudia à Upper Canada College et aux Universités de Toronto et de Chicago et passa la majeure partie de sa carrière de professeur à l’Université McGill. Il publia plusieurs volumes se rapportant à l’histoire, à l’économique et à la politique, mais c’est spécialement comme humoriste qu’il est connu. Il acquit une réputation internationale, à ce titre, dans le monde anglo-saxon par son maniement de la satire, de l’ironie et du simple comique diffusé dans une oeuvre très considérable. Il est décédé à Toronto.