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	Stephen Leacock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stephen Butler Leacock was born on December 30, 1869, at Swanmore, Hampshire, England, the third of a family of eleven children.
		With Stephen's brothers too far away to be of any assistance, Agnes Leacock relied more and more on her third son to provide the strength and support she needed to keep the family going.
		Leacock believed that "the meaning of this degree [was] that the recipient of instruction is examined for the last time in his life, and is pronounced completely full.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /leacock/t5-211-e.html (2570 words)

	Stephen Leacock - Biography and Works
		Stephen Butler Leacock was born on 30 December, 1869, at Swanmore, Hampshire, England, the third of eleven children to Peter Leacock and Agnes Emma (née Butler).
		Leacock was appointed full-time professor at McGill in 1908.
		Leacock was diagnosed with throat cancer and he died on the 28th of March, 1944, in a Toronto hospital.
	www.online-literature.com /stephen-leacock (863 words)

	Stephen Leacock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D, FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist.
		Leacock, always of obvious intelligence, was sent to the elite private school of Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he was top of the class and so popular he was chosen as head boy.
		Leacock was both a social conservative and a partisan Conservative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Leacock (1097 words)

	ABOUT STEPHEN LEACOCK
		Stephen Butler Leacock, Canada’s pre-eminent humorist, was born in Swanmore, England in 1869 and as a young child moved to Canada with his family.
		In 1908 Leacock purchased 19.73 acres of land in Orillia, Ontario on the shores of Lake Couchiching.
		Stephen Leacock passed away in March 1944 and was buried in his family’s plot at Sibbald Point.
	www.leacock.ca /STEPHEN.htm (413 words)

	Stephen Leacock Building
		The Stephen Leacock Building was named after Stephen Leacock, a Professor of Economics from 1901 to 1944 and a well-known Canadian humorist and author.
		The Leacock Building was originally planned as two towers, the second, which was found to be unnecessary and was never built, would have taken over the site of the remaining half of Morrice Hall, a charming Collegiate Gothic style structure.
		Leacock is a ten-storey concrete structure that houses, on its lower three floors, twenty-four lecture rooms ranging in capacity from 30 seats to 200, not including the massive lecture room on the first floor which seats 650 students at a time.
	cac.mcgill.ca /campus/Buildings/Stephen_Leacock.html (440 words)

	McClelland.com \| Books \| Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock
		Stephen Leacock was born in Swanmore, Hampshire, England, in 1869.
		Leacock’s most profitable book was his textbook, Elements of Political Science, which was translated into seventeen languages.
		Stephen Leacock died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1944.
	www.mcclelland.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771099830 (285 words)

	[minstrels] The Social Plan -- Stephen Leacock
		Leacock's reference to the 'Gloomy Man' is particularly apposite - the reader is at once reminded of a host of caricatures and sketches involving just such a figure; the poem need go into no further detail.
		Biography: Stephen Leacock was a shaggy, handsome, colorful, Canadian who proved to his countrymen that humour was almost respectable and certainly profitable, and delighted the world with his wit from the end of the Edwardian era until the middle of World War II.
		He succeeded Mark Twain in 1910 as the foremost literary Stephen Leacock lived in and is identified with two very dissimilar Canadian milieus; one a small Ontario town (Orillia), the other a cosmopolitan Quebec metropolis (Montreal).
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/789.html (698 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town: Books: Stephen Leacock,D. M. R. Bentley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leacock, who died in 1944, became arguably the most prominent Canadian humorist of his day (and probably of all time).
		Leacock has the ability to turn a story, to make it take a crazy, unexpected twist even when you are looking for such a maneuver.
		Leacock died when I was six, but I did know his son, who still lived in town.
	www.amazon.ca /Sunshine-Sketches-Little-Stephen-Leacock/dp/0393926346 (2303 words)

	A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock (Preview) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) is one of Canada's most respected and beloved writers.
		A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock employs the protocols of descriptive bibliography to record all of Leacock's published work from his first known venture into print in 1887 until the cut-off date of 1998.
		A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock reveals the complexity and scope of Leacock's enormous canon.
	www.ecwpress.com /books/leacock.htm (261 words)

	Biography for Stephen Leacock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He received many awards and honorary degrees, among them the Lorne Pierce Medal; the Leacock Medal for Humour was established in his honor and has been awarded annually since 1947 to the best humorous book by a Canadian author.
		When Leacock was about 7, his large family (ultimately ten brothers and sisters) moved to Canada and settled on a 100-acre farm.
		Leacock's former homes were declared historic sites, more awards were heaped upon him posthumously, and in 1970, a mountain in the Yukon's Saint Elias range was named after him.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0494891/bio (676 words)

	A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock by Theresa Moritz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock by Theresa Moritz
		Leacock's career as public speaker is also charted through a list of lectures, compiled from Leacock's lecture notebooks, and a descriptive directory of newspaper accounts (over 200 items).
		Leacock's humour, for all his emphasis on kindliness as an essential ingredient, can be jarring, especially if one is expecting sentiment.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/691/leacock101.html (456 words)

	NYRB: Stephen Leacock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stephen Leacock (1869—1944) was born in Hampshire, England, but grew up in a small town in Ontario, one of eleven children.
		Thereafter, Leacock wrote prolifically, gaining international popularity with such works as Nonsense Novels (1911), Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914), as well as biographies of his literary heroes, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.
		An ardent imperialist and nationalist, Leacock was in great demand as a speaker, undertaking an international tour for the Rhodes Trust in 1907 and 1908 and a Canadian tour to promote national unity in 1936.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/10776 (225 words)

	Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-1944) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Title: A bibliography of Stephen Butler Leacock, compiled by the class of 1935, McGill university library school, under the direction of Marion Villiers Higgins, instructor in bibliography.
		Many of Leacock's most popular stories are retold by Stark as he takes on the rumpled professor's character.
		Includes many of Leacock's most popular stories which reflect life at the turn of the century, the affect of modern science on people, and tales of small-town life.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcleacock1.htm (1765 words)

	RPO -- Selected Poetry of Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)
		Stephen (Butler) Leacock was born in Swanmoor, Hampshire, on December 30, 1869, and came to Canada in 1876.
		Politically, Leacock was a Conservative, but by 1936 he came to believe that the government should act in times of financial hardship to protect families.
		The Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour was established in his honour in 1947.
	rpo.library.utoronto.ca /poet/198.html (397 words)

	Leacock Stephen Butler - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Leacock Stephen Butler - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Leacock, Stephen Butler (1869-1944), Canadian writer and economist, born in Swanmore, England.
		Canadian writer and economist Stephen Leacock authored several books on economics and political science, but he is best remembered for his fiction....
	encarta.msn.com /Leacock_Stephen_Butler.html (128 words)

	STEPHEN LEACOCK TENNIS CLUB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stephen Leacock Tennis Club has been in existence since 1965.
		The club has four beautifully laid out tennis courts, a small cozy clubhouse, floodlights to play at night, and a very dedicated Executive consisting of members who are either newly elected or re-elected every two years.
		The club has three certified coaches and members are encouraged to take lessons either to correct their strokes and thereby avoid injuries or just to hone their tennis skills.
	www.stephenleacock-tennis.ca (257 words)

	Stephen Leacock - Palimpsest
		Stephen Leacock, Canadian satirical writer, was born in England, but was taken to Canada at an early age and is rightly regarded, even honoured, as a Canadian icon.
		Stephen Leacock's tone appears in work by S J Perelman, who undoubtedly was influenced by Leacock.
		Although most of Leacock's books are still in print, The Gutenberg Project features many of them for download, so they are easily accessible.
	www.palimpsest.org.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=1189 (662 words)

	13. The Decline of the Drama by Stephen Leacock. Morley, Christopher, ed. 1921. Modern Essays
		The Decline of the Drama by Stephen Leacock.
		At any rate, since that time Professor Leacock’s humorous volumes have appeared with gratifying regularity—Nonsense Novels, Behind the Beyond, etc.; ad some more serious books too, such as Essays and Literary Studies and The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice.
		We usually think of him as a Canadian, but he was born in England in 1869.
	www.bartleby.com /237/13.html (1844 words)

	Stephen Leacock Life Stories, Books, & Links
		On this day in 1869 the Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock was born.
		Twenty-five of Leacock's forty-odd books are in his comic mode, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich being most well-known, but all exemplifying his belief that "the humour of the highest culture, the humour of the future," is born of "kindliness" and "wide charity of mind."
		Leacock wrote for a popular audience, which makes him suspect among scholars; for an international English-speaking audience, which makes him suspect among Canadian nationalists; and in a medium, the humorous essay, not held in the same high esteem as other prose forms.
	todayinliterature.com /biography/stephen.leacock.asp (382 words)

	Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal. Reappraisals: Canadian Writers 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ralph L. Curry, Leacock's bibliographer and first biographer, has added to the symposium material that is from one point of view the book's most valuable feature: a twenty-eight-page list of Leacock's published writings that is the most complete and correct now available.
		He can be seen, then, in the Romantic and Victorian tradition of conservative radicalism that criticized abuses of the new urban industrial society by appeal to older traditions, including those that the new order claimed to represent, such as English political institutions and Christianity.
		In personal terms, Leacock has the need to affirm an identity experienced both as inherited and as self-made, and so the inheritance must be defended against powerful indictments that the self itself makes, though it projects the most threatening forms of them onto those who make them publicly.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/581/581_review_moritz.html (319 words)

	Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour (usually the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Stephen Leacock Award) is an annual award presented to the best work of humorous literature written in English by a Canadian.
		It is named for Stephen Leacock, a famous Canadian humour writer.
		The current prize is $10,000 (CAD) and it is awarded each year in a ceremony in Leacock's hometown of Orillia, Ontario.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Leacock_Award (464 words)

	Stephen Leacock Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leacock House takes on an old fashioned Christmas charm.
		This all day kids camp is a fun-filled salute to Leacock and features story-telling, readings, crafts and outdoor games.
		All the way through, the Colonel expounds the virtues of his wonderful elixir which he promises to sell to the audience at the end of the show.
	www.leacockmuseum.com /events.htm (518 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Stephen Leacock
		Today, Leacock’s pointed satire of the privileged class, and their social abuses and pretences, retains every ounce of its freshness...
		Within its pages are such classic stories as the man who is seized by fear as he opens a bank account; the awful case of the...
		This celebrated collection of sketches sparkles with Stephen Leacock’s humour and shines with the warmth of his wit.
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=16990 (470 words)

	Amazon.ca: Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich: Books: Stephen Leacock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of the many books by Canada’s most celebrated humorist, none has received more acclaim than his brilliant, caustic treatment of the glittering rich who gather at the Mausoleum Club on Plutoria Avenue.
		Today, Leacock’s pointed satire of the privileged class, and their social abuses and pretences, retains every ounce of its freshness and bite.
		An undisputed comic masterpiece, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich reveals a depth of compassionate criticism rare in Leacock’s writings.
	www.amazon.ca /Arcadian-Adventures-Rich-Stephen-Leacock/dp/1404360727 (462 words)

	LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR
		With the announcement that he is the winner of the 2006 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and the TD Bank Financial Group’s $10 000 cash prize, Arthur Black becomes only the third author to win this prestigious literary award three times.
		We also get Arthur’s view of the world as he reflects on such topics as the evolution of profanity, the fleeting nature of celebrity or the medicinal use of duct tape.
		The occasion was the long awaited announcement of this year’s winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour.
	www.leacock.ca (314 words)

	Biographies: Persons of Literature: The Classical Fiction Writers: Stephen Leacock (1869-1944).
		Biographies: Persons of Literature: The Classical Fiction Writers: Stephen Leacock (1869-1944).
		Born in England, Leacock came to Canada at a young age and grew up in the Lake Simcoe area of Ontario.
		In 1908, Leacock went to Montreal's McGill, heading up its Department of Political Economy and carried on in that capacity until his retirement in 1936.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/Leacock.htm (121 words)

	LibriVox » Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
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		Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912.
		The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti.
	librivox.org /sunshine-sketches-of-a-little-town-by-stephen-leacock (392 words)

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