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Stephen Leacock, humorist

Stephen Leacock, portrait published in 1913. Stephen Leacock · The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto · Photo source · Photo licence: Public domain. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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Stephen Leacock spent most of his career at McGill University teaching history and political science, but he is chiefly known as a humorist. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) made his reputation across the English-speaking world, and his work finds humour in ordinary people in everyday situations through exaggeration and incongruity.

Scope & context

Leacock as described in his designation.

Sources behind this record

Stephen Leacock National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)

Importance; plaque text