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	Stephen Leacock - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Butler Leacock ( December 30, 1869 – March 28, 1944) was a British-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.
		Nevertheless, Leacock was awarded the Royal Society of Canada 's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1937, nominally for his academic work.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /stephen_leacock.htm (861 words)

	Stephen Leacock - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Butler Leacock ( December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944) was a British-Canadian writer and economist.
		Leacock, always of obvious intelligence, was sent to the elite Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he was top of the class and also popular.
		Leacock then moved to the University of Toronto, but because of financial difficulties he stayed there only a year.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Stephen_Leacock (353 words)

	Leacock-Leola-Bareville, Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Leacock Museum Biography, list of books, and description of the author's summer home.
		Leacock at Large Weekly commentary on Barbadian matters from newspaper columnist (and retired surgeon) Mr.
		Wertheimer Sculptures: Stephen Leacock Cast bronze sculpture of the humorist.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Leacock-Leola-Bareville,_Pennsylvania.html (634 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 (459 words)

	Leacock, Stephen
		The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, awards and distinctions (the Lorne Pierce Medal, the Governor General's Award, a postage stamp issued in his honour, the Leacock Medal for Humour established in his honour), Leacock was the English-speaking world's best-known humorist 1915-25.
		Although he was not an original or particularly incisive political economist, Leacock's professional opinions on matters such as the need for a gold standard have proved prophetic in their commonsense approach to what he considered a jungle of statistics.
		Although frequently unfaithful to his credo that humour be kindly - he was at times racist, anti-feminist and downright ornery - the unique alchemy of compassion and caustic wit remain the elements which accord his humour a timelessness few Canadian writers have achieved.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0004585 (558 words)

	AWARD HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Close friends, colleagues and supporters of Stephen Leacock were the original members of the Leacock Associates (originally the Stephen Leacock Memorial Committee) when it was formed in 1946 under the guidance of Packet Editor, C. Hale.
		Among the early supporters of the Leacock Associates were: B. Sandwell, publisher of Saturday Night magazine and one-time student of Leacock at Upper Canada College; William Arthur Deacon, president of the Canadian Authors' Association; Thomas B. Costain, Canadian historian and novelist; and economist, Eugene Forsey.
		The Medal and cash award is presented at the Award Dinner held in late May or early June, in Orillia.
	www.leacock.ca /awhistory.html (609 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/leacock.html (97 words)

	Encyclopedia: Stephen Leacock
		Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph.D, FRSC ( December 30, 1869 â“ March 28, 1944) was a British-Canadian writer and economist.
		Private schools are schools not administered by local or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds.
		The Lorne Pierce Medal is awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Canada to recognize achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature written in either English or French.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stephen-Leacock (1896 words)

	Leacock Medal for Humour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		AWARDED BY: The Stephen Leacock Association and the
		The Award is correctly dated for the year in which it is presented.
		AWARD FORM: The Memorial Medal, popularly known as the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour is cast in silver and was designed by Canadian sculptor, Emmanuel Hahn.
	www.leacock.ca /awards.html (189 words)

	Stephen Leacock Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Stephen Leacock Award for Humour is an annual award presented to the best work of humorous literature written in English by a Canadian.
		Stephen Leacock Building Description and pictures of the building, located on the campus of McGill University.
		Stephen Leacock: Humorist and Educator Biography, chronology, quotations, and an overview of his work with samples.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Stephen_Leacock_Award.html (1090 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Leacock's Lake Wissanotti, right outside the town of Mariposa, was one of Canada's most popular and endearing fictional places.
		Stephen Leacock was born in Swanmore, Hampshire, England, in 1869.
		Stephen Leacock died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1944.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/1414244789/reviews (758 words)

	Learn more about Literature of Canada in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Humour: Canadians do not shy away from serious subject matter, but they have often approached it using humour.
		The Griffin Poetry Prize a lucrative award for one Canadian and one foreign poet.
		The Marian Engel Award is presented to a female Canadian writer in mid-career for the body of her work.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/literature_of_canada.html (1783 words)

	More info about the poet: Stephen Leacock - references bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		AWARD FORM: The Memorial Medal, popularly known as the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour is cast in silver...
		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 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour was established in his honour in 1947.
	www.poemhunter.com /stephen-leacock/resources/poet-6652/page-1 (416 words)

	Stephen Leacock Memorial Award
		Le Stephen Leacock Memorial Award, communément appelé le Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, consiste en une médaille d'argent, décernée chaque année à l'auteur canadien du meilleur livre d'humour.
		Depuis 1946, elle est offerte par la compagnie Stephen Leacock Associates, établie à Orillia, en Ontario.
		Après la mort de Stephen LEACOCK, en mars 1944 à Montréal, un groupe de personnes, désireuses de perpétuer son souvenir et de rendre hommage à son talent extraordinaire d'écrivain humoriste, crée l'association.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=F1ARTF0007700 (245 words)

	Mordecai Richler
		That was the conclusion at the 1998 Stephen Leacock Award for Humour luncheon yesterday, when it was announced that Richler was the winner for his book Barney's Version (Knopf, $32.95).
		Richler was not present but Knopf representative Dianne Martin, who accepted the award on his behalf, suggested that despite his celebrated grumpiness, the Montreal-based writer becomes more appealing as time goes on.
		He's won the Governor General's Award for fiction twice and has been short-listed for the Booker Prize.
	www.geocities.com /davidnicholson_99/Richler.htm (603 words)

	Stephen Leacock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Butler Leacock ( 1869 - 1944) was a British-Canadian writer and economist.
		While the family had been comfortable in England, the farm was not a success and Leacock 's family was quite poor.
		Leacock 's politial theory, now all but forgotten, was very conservative.
	www.portaljuice.com /stephen_leacock.html (350 words)

	Enlaces : Arts : Literature : World_Literature : Canadian : Genres : Humor : Authors : Leacock,_Stephen :: 100cia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stephen Leacock Building - Description and pictures of the building, located on the campus of McGill University..
		Stephen Leacock: Humorist and Educator - Biography, chronology, quotations, and an overview of his work with samples.
		Stephen Leacock: Humorist and Educator - Includes a biography, a detailed look at his central works, a brief glance at his other works, a bibliography, and resources.
	www.100cia.com /recursos/enlaces/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Canadian/Genres/Humor/Authors/Leacock,_Stephen (275 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Stephen Leacock
		Nominated for a Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and part of the NAC English Theatre's 2004 On the Verge festival of new play readings, the play is a hilarious and heartbreaking journey.
		He was a three-time recipient of the Governor General's Award, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and the Canadian Booksellers Award.
		Ferguson will be awarded $10,000 and a commemorative medal at a ceremony in the Ontario community of Orillia, where Stephen Leacock spent many summers...
	news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Stephen_Leacock_Book.html (935 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 /exec/obidos/ASIN/0771099843 (2013 words)

	Harbour Publishing
		The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal was created in 1946 in memory of Stephen Leacock, the world-famous Canadian humorist and educator.
		Presented annually by the Stephen Leacock Association, the memorial medal is cast in silver and was designed by Canadian sculptor Emmanuel Hahn.
		The winner will be announced at a luncheon at the Stephen Leacock Museum in Orillia, Ontario on April 20, 2005, and the award itself will be presented at a dinner at Geneva Park in Orillia on June 11, 2005.
	www.harbourpublishing.com /news_story.php?id=137 (217 words)

	WFNS: Winners of the 2003 Atlantic Writing Awards
		The inaugural Award was presented to Dan Falk for his Universe on a T-Shirt: the Quest for the Theory of Everything (Viking Canada).
		Voted by readers and booksellers across the region, the award is sponsored by the Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Association and included Stephen Kimber for Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs (Doubleday Canada) and Donna Morrissey for Downhill Chance on their 2002 ballot.
		The recipient of the 1999 Tic Butler Award for her outstanding contribution to Cape Breton writing and Culture, she is the founder of Cape Breton's Reading Ceilidhs.
	www.chebucto.ns.ca /Culture/WFNS/pr16may03.html (1932 words)

	Robertson Davies
		In a book full of singular characters, the central character is a simple, mentally defective woman named Mary Dempster, who may or may not be a saint.
		Davies won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in the 1955 for Leaven of Malice.
		Davies won the Governor-General's Literary Award in the English language fiction category in 1972 for The Manticore.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robertson_davies.html (281 words)

	Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour - Literary Awards - Burlington Public Library
		Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour - Literary Awards - Burlington Public Library
		This award for a book of humour published in the previous calendar year, written by a Canadian is presented by The Stephen Leacock Association and the T.D. Financial Group.
		It remains as a memorial to Stephen Leacock and his humour and as an encouragement to Canadian writers to produce and publish works of humour..
	www.bpl.on.ca /reading/awardwin/leacock.htm (99 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Canadian literature, new & used textbooks, cookbooks, children's books, science fiction & more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The humour, irony, and wit of Stephen Leacock have never been shown to better advantage than in Literary Lapses, his first collection of comic writings.
		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 young man who dies...
		A hilarious send-up of literary genres that bears comparison with the work of Ian Frazier and Bruce McCall, Stephen Leacock's Nonsense Novels stands out as a highpoint of humor writing - a parody of all the silliest conventions of the adventure story, the ghost story, the detective story, the...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/1050994 (554 words)

	Media Release: COLLEGE DEAN WINS NATIONAL AWARD - Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kertes is a past recipient of Humber’s Innovator of the Year Award, as well as two Conny awards for Best Continuing Education and Best Education programs in Ontario.
		His Winter Tulips won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, and the comic novel Boardwalk was well-received by critics and readers alike.
		The National Academic Leadership Excellence Award was presented at the ACCC National Conference held this summer in Saskatoon, Sask.
	www.humber.ca /releases/040908b.htm (271 words)

	Paul Quarrington - Biography
		Toronto Globe and Mail critic William French proclaimed Quarrington "a fresh and zany voice" in Canadian fiction, and his novel The Life of Hope, a "first-class farce of the absurd." King Leary was his next novel, for which he received the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1987.
		The novel won Quarrington a Governor's General Award for fiction, and was made into a successful, motion picture.
		Civilization (about film making early in Hollywood's history) and The Boy on the Back of the Turtle (non-fiction account of a trip to the Galápagos Islands with his father and his young daughter), were released to great media fanfare and fan delight.
	www.quarrington.org /bio.htm (1479 words)

	SFU Summer Publishing Workshops: Faculty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She is also in high demand as a freelance publicist, in which capacity she assists with the electronic and print media for the Governor General's Literary Awards and other prestigious events.
		She received the 1988 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for her work on Genethics: The Clash Between the New Genetics and Human Values by David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson and is a past president of the Editors' Association of Canada.
		Stephen Osborne is the editor and founder of Geist magazine and author of Ice and Fire: Dispatches from the New World.
	www.ccsp.sfu.ca /pubworks/faculty.htm (6396 words)

	Netscape Search Category - Leacock, Stephen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Canadian Encyclopedia: Stephen Leacock Biography of the author.
		Grave of Stephen Leacock Pictures of the gravesite and a memorial sign.
		Well Known Canadians: Stephen Leacock Profile of the author.
	h-207-200-81-7.netscape.com /Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Canadian/Genres/Humor/Authors/Leacock,_Stephen (203 words)

	Susan Musgrave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Susan has been nominated and has won awards for writing in five different categories: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, and for her work as an editor.
		Four times short-listed for the Governor General’s Award, she is the recipient of half a dozen Air Canada Frequent Flyer Awards (for points accumulated flying to receptions for prizes for which she has been short-listed).
		She has been twice nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour.
	www.wier.ca /SMusgrave.html (351 words)

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