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The Old Brewery Bay
Author | : James A. "Pete" McGarvey |
Publsiher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 1994-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781770700758 |
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Here we have the personal account of the misadventures that preceded the opening to the public of the Leacock home in 1958. Forty years ago, in October 1954, a committee was formed, chaired by Pete McGarvey, to acquire and preserve Stephen Leacock’s summer home, known as The Old Brewery Bay. Four years later a golden key opened the front door of the home, allowing Leacock fans to pay homage to the humorist in a setting he had prized above every other. As the years have passed, appreciation of Leacock’s genius has grown and today the Leacock Museum is open year-round to visitors from all parts of the globe. The Old Brewery Bay is a Leacockian yarn full of ironies, the greatest one being that the salvation of Leacock’s home was accomplished not by a national campaign involving governments, philanthropists, McGill alumni, and foundations (all of whom were approached in a spirit of urgency and all of whom backed away), but by a gang of naive and stubborn Orillians, using old-fashioned political moxie. Leacock would have loved that - his Mariposans showing the big sophisticated world how to get things done.
The Old Brewery Bay
Author | : James A. "Pete" McGarvey |
Publsiher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1994-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781554883400 |
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Here we have the personal account of the misadventures that preceded the opening to the public of the Leacock home in 1958. Forty years ago, in October 1954, a committee was formed, chaired by Pete McGarvey, to acquire and preserve Stephen Leacock's summer home, known as The Old Brewery Bay. Four years later a golden key opened the front door of the home, allowing Leacock fans to pay homage to the humorist in a setting he had prized above every other. As the years have passed, appreciation of Leacock's genius has grown and today the Leacock Museum is open year-round to visitors from all parts of the globe. The Old Brewery Bay is a Leacockian yarn full of ironies, the greatest one being that the salvation of Leacock's home was accomplished not by a national campaign involving governments, philanthropists, McGill alumni, and foundations (all of whom were approached in a spirit of urgency and all of whom backed away), but by a gang of naive and stubborn Orillians, using old-fashioned political moxie. Leacock would have loved that - his Mariposans showing the big sophisticated world how to get things done.
Random Rhymes from Old Brewery Bay
Author | : Stephen Leacock,Raymond Souster |
Publsiher | : Shelburne, Ont. : Battered Silicon Dispatch Box |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1552467309 |
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Author | : Stephen Leacock |
Publsiher | : New Canadian Library |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780771093975 |
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Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent the people of small towns everywhere. As fresh, funny, and insightful today as when it was first published in 1912, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock at his best – colourful, imaginative, and thoroughly entertaining.
The Stephen Leacock Picture Book
Author | : James A. "Pete" McGarvey,Daphne Mainprize |
Publsiher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1550023144 |
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This pictorial treasure, with many photographs published for the first time, traces the life of Stephen Leacock.
Stephen Leacock s Mariposa
Author | : Daphne Mainprize |
Publsiher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2012-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781459707610 |
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The year 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. In words and pictures, author Daphne Mainprize takes the reader on a walking tour of Orillia, Ontario, the inspiration for Leacock's fabled Mariposa.
Christmas in Mariposa
Author | : Jamie Lamb |
Publsiher | : Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781772032857 |
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Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour A funny and heart-warming tribute to Canada’s most famous small town, and its most celebrated humourist, Stephen Leacock. Many Canadians grew up in small towns, or at least in neighbourhoods that acted like small towns. But what if you grew up in Canada’s most famous small town—Stephen Leacock’s Mariposa? This was the world that journalist Jamie Lamb was raised in, the actual place that inspired Leacock’s Canadian classic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town,over a century ago. The Mariposa of Lamb’s time was slightly different, yet it still embodied the heart and soul, the eccentricities and the bizarre local customs of Leacock’s sketches. Christmas in Mariposa is a celebration of that town and its people. It tells of secret gardens, special rinks, oddball hotels, remarkable foods, fast boats and sunken aircraft, Christmas Eve fireworks, and the best Christmas office party in the country. It describes a place where Christmas could be celebrated in summer with a Baby Jesus look-alike contest, Canada’s only officially sanctioned reindeer races, and the Three Wise Men arriving with gifts by parachute. It transports readers to a world where where Gordie Howe once dropped by for a skate, and Glenn Gould regularly came to eat a well-done steak and six Parker House rolls slathered in butter at a Chinese restaurant. Jamie Lamb’s Mariposa is timeless and quintessentially Canadian.
Bulletin Canadian Library Association
Author | : Canadian Library Association |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1068 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Libraries |
ISBN | : UVA:X030602079 |
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