Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years...

The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, also known as the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Leacock Medal, is an annual Canadian literary...

Arthur R. M. Lower, Colony to Nation The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, commonly called the Stephen Leacock Award, recognizes the previous year's...

Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute and John Buchan Senior Public School are two public middle and secondary schools in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The...

Leacock may refer to: Leacock Regional Park in Casula, south-west of Sydney, Australia Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Upper Leacock...

73.57777778°W / 45.50444444; -73.57777778 The Stephen Leacock Building, also known simply as the Leacock Building, is a building located at 855 Sherbrooke...

poems and magazine articles. Although administered separately, the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour also announced its winner at the same ceremony...

analytical rigour. She received a shortlisted nomination for the 2018 Stephen Leacock Award for the best book of humour written in English by a Canadian...

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB, known as English-language Public District School Board No. 25 prior to 1999) refers to both the institution...

Sunburst Award in 2009. Her second novel, Happiness Economics, was a Stephen Leacock Award finalist in 2012. Things Go Flying (2008) Happiness Economics...

The Stephen Leacock Associates have honoured former Orillia resident and humourist Stephen Leacock's memory since 1947 with the annual Stephen Leacock Memorial...

Mariposa is a fictional Canadian town created by Stephen Leacock as the setting for a series of short stories. Commissioned by The Montreal Star newspaper...

weekly podcast. McLean's books of stories from The Vinyl Cafe won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times. Several albums of his performances...

RBC Taylor Prize. King's novel, Indians on Vacation (2020), won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 2021. King was chosen to deliver the 2003 Massey...

of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award. Both of these portray life on the Canadian Prairies where he...

the 2023 comedic mystery novel I Only Read Murder. Ferguson won the Stephen Leacock Award in 2004 for Village of the Small Houses, a biography and humorous...

also the basis of the unsuccessful play Love and Libel) which won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, and A Mixture of Frailties (1958). These novels explored...

Bourgeois-Doyle as "gentle satire," evoking the notion embedded in humorist Stephen Leacock's definition of humour as "the kindly contemplation of the incongruities...

Cleese, the sketch was inspired by "Self-Made Men," a short story by Stephen Leacock published in 1910. The original performance of the sketch by the four...

of similar stories, The Fencepost Chronicles, earned Kinsella the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Kinsella was criticized for writing from...

original on 15 March 2005. Retrieved 8 May 2007. Leacock, Stephen (1 July 2005), "Stephen Leacock's hidden treasure", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, retrieved...

is one of the best selling books worldwide. Between 1915 and 1925, Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) was the best selling humour writer in the world. His best...

Class Mom in 2017. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and won the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish...

Awards. His memoir Talking to Canadians was the winner of the 2022 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. In 2023, he was appointed a Member of the...

and was the uncle of humorist Stephen Leacock. He was the subject of his nephew's 1942 essay My Remarkable Uncle. Leacock came to Canada in 1878 and arrived...

(non-fiction) at the Atlantic Book Awards, and shortlisted for both the 2019 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize....

built in 1877 by the pioneering Sibbald family and burial place of Stephen Leacock and Mazo de la Roche Roche's Point Anglican Church, built in 1862 The...

somewhat dull but reliably soothing." It was the winner of the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. "The Librarianist". House of Anansi Press...

History and Philosophy of Science. Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 513–533, 1994 Stephen Leacock (1906). Elements of Political Science. Houghton, Mifflin Co, 417 pp...

English-language fiction. On April 26, 2012, the novel won the 2012 Stephen Leacock Award. Alongside Edugyan, The Sisters Brothers was also a shortlisted...