Discover the Stephen Leacock Museum in Orillia
Discover the Stephen Leacock Museum National Historic Site in Orillia with this video created by Tourism Simcoe County.
Visit the Stephen Leacock Museum
Tom Rose takes you through Leacock Museum and National Historic Site located on the shores of Lake Couchiching and highlights upcoming events scheduled for the summer season.
Leacock Museum and National Historic Site
Visit the summer home of Canadian writer Stephen Leacock when in Orillia. Located on Old Brewery Bay along the shores of lake Couchiching, this 1920s, 18 room cottage and grounds serves not only as a museum but as a location for festivals, events and weddings. Come for a visit! For more information call 705-329-1908 or leacockmuseum.com.
The Stephen Leacock Home - Orillia, Ontario
Took a trip the the Stephen Leacock home in Orillia and shot some video of the inside of the house and the surrounding grounds.
Letter of Stephen Leacock
David Staines book, The Letters of Stephen Leacock provides an insight into this Canadian writer's private and public life. Directed by Stephen Weir of stephenweir.com. Produced by George Socka of beachdigital.com
Leacock Museum National Historic Site
The 19 room white stucco home was designed and built in 1928 by the famous author, humorist and economist Stephen Butler Leacock. It was here that he wrote most of his famous works and where he spent his most productive years. It contains his library, personal papers and memorabilia. In addition to the original manuscript of Sunshine Sketches of a Little town in Leacock's own handwriting, there are exhibits throughout the house, which has been designated a National Historic Site.
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Stephen Leacock Canadian Humourist
Stephen Leacock was born in Swanmore[3], a village near Southampton in southern England. He was the third of the eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock (b.1834), who was born and grew up at Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight, an estate that his grandfather had purchased after returning from Madeira where his family had made a fortune out of plantations and Leacock's Madeira wine, founded in 1760. Stephen's mother, Agnes, was born at Soberton, the youngest daughter by his second wife (Caroline Linton Palmer) of the Rev. Stephen Butler, of Bury Lodge, the Butler estate that overlooked the village of Hambledon, Hampshire. Stephen Butler (for whom Leacock was named), was the maternal grandson of Admiral James Richard Dacres and a brother of Sir Thomas Dacres Butler, Usher of the Black Rod. Leacock's mother was the half-sister of Major Thomas Adair Butler, who won the Victoria Cross at the siege and capture of Lucknow.
Peter's father, Thomas Murdock Leacock J.P., had already conceived plans eventually to send his son out to the colonies, but when he discovered that at age eighteen Peter had married Agnes Butler without his permission, almost immediately he shipped them out to South Africa where he had bought them a farm. The farm in South Africa failed and Stephen's parents returned to Hampshire, where he was born.[4] When Stephen was six, he came out with his family to Canada, where they settled on a farm near the village of Sutton, Ontario, and the shores of Lake Simcoe.[5] Their farm in the township of Georgina in York County was also unsuccessful, and the family was kept afloat by money sent from Leacock's paternal grandfather. His father became an alcoholic; in the fall of 1878, he travelled west to Manitoba with his brother E.P. Leacock (the subject of Stephen's book My Remarkable Uncle, published in 1942), leaving behind Agnes and the children.[6]
Stephen Leacock, always of obvious intelligence, was sent by his grandfather to the elite private school of Upper Canada College in Toronto, also attended by his older brothers, where he was top of the class and was chosen as head boy. Leacock graduated in 1887, and returned home to find that his father had returned from Manitoba. Soon after, his father left the family again and never returned.[6] There is some disagreement about what happened to Peter Leacock; some suggest that he went to live in Argentina,[7] while other sources indicate that he moved to Nova Scotia and changed his name to Lewis.[6]
In 1887, seventeen-year-old Leacock started at University College at the University of Toronto, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. His first year was bankrolled by a small scholarship, but Leacock found he could not return to his studies the following year because of financial difficulties. He left university to work as a teacher—an occupation he disliked immensely—at Strathroy, Uxbridge and finally in Toronto. As a teacher at Upper Canada College, his alma mater, he was able simultaneously to attend classes at the University of Toronto and, in 1891, earn his degree through part-time studies. It was during this period that his first writing was published in The Varsity, a campus newspaper.
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Leacock House
Interior of Stephen Leacock home in Orillia
Leacock LIve presented by ACT ll STUDIO, Ryerson University,Toronto
Members of ACT ll STUDIO in the finale of Leacock Live - Adapted for stage and directed by ACT ll's Artistic Director Vrenia Ivonoffski - at the Leacock Museum National Historic Site in Orillia Ontario Canada in July 2012. Orillia was celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1st printing of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
CAST: John Allin, Nora Brett, Dave Cormack, Sue Foster, Floyd Green, Barbara Haber, Durelle Harford-McAllister, Christine Kristenbrun, Michael Lambert, Judy Malkin, Lynda May, Neil Naft, Michael Sherman, Yvonne Taylor, Bev Wise
ACT ll STUDIO is part of Programs for 50 Plus in The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University, Toronto. wryerson.ca/~act2
JOHN DRAINIE as STEPHEN LEACOCK
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1952 Leacock Medal - Writing Lesson
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Comfort Inn Orillia - Orillia Hotels, Canada
Comfort Inn Orillia 3 Stars hotel in Orillia, Canada Within US Travel Directory Situated only minutes from Orillia's Casino Rama, and surrounded by a variety of recreational activities, this hotel features spacious accommodations, complete with a number of thoughtful amenities.The Comfort Inn Orillia places guests only a short distance from many area activities and attractions. Guests can enjoy golfing, skiing and snowmobiling.Guests will enjoy a complimentary hot breakfast daily which includes eggs, bacon or sausage, waffles, yogurt, assorted breads and cereals, fresh fruit, juice, coffee and tea.
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Lakehead University is a 5-minute drive from the hotel.
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Margaret MacMillan on Stephen Leacock, clip from Extraordinary Canadians
Margaret MacMillan shows us the other side of Canada's first funny man. World-famous satirist and professor of Political Economy, Stephen Leacock is a keen commentator on human nature. The first true champion of Canada, he showed us how to be proud of being Canadian.
Directed by Tom Puchniak. Produced by PMA Productions Inc.
Recreating Leacock History
As part of the celebrations in Orillia to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, the Department of Culture and Heritage is presenting the world premiere of a new theatrical work Sketching Sunshine featuring Joe Matheson as Leacock circa 1912. As part of the promotion for the new play, Matheson along with photographer Cole Bennett recrerated the iconic photos taken of Leacock by Yousef Karsh in Orillia in 1940. For information on the play contact orilliaoperahouse.ca or visit The Leacock Museum and National Historic Site in Orillia. Visit leacockmuseum.com to learn how Orillia is celebrating Leacock all year long!
Orillia Mental Asylum | Mark Dorsey, PhD Candidate | Research Snapshot | LA&PS | York U History
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PhD Candidate Mark Dorsey talks about his research in the Orillia Mental Asylum.
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LEACOCK SUMMER FESTIVAL JULY 19-30 Promo 1
Programmer Fred Addis welcomes visitors to the Leacock Summer Festival from the sunroom of the Leacock home in Orillia.
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