A Tour of
Leacock House
The Main Floor of Leacock
House features a portfolio of original signed portraits by the
master photographer Yosuf Karsh, taken of Stephen Leacock at Old
Brewery Bay in 1941. These internationally recognized
works were commissioned by B. K. Sandwell the distinguished editor
of Saturday Night magazine 1932-1951. |
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 Leacock Museum
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Leacock
House at Old Brewery Bay
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When
I build my house, I shall make it very plain but at
the same time very large. ... it will become a
charming English place - I'm tired of cities and
people - it's a case of Good-bye proud world, I'm
going home. Stephen
Leacock
Stephen
Leacock, Canada's beloved humourist spent his most creative time
in what he coined as Lake Simcoe Country.
The success of his
Elements of Political Science and his first satirical books
Literary Lapses, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Arcadian
Adventures of the Idle Rich allowed him to move from his family's
summer house at Sibbald Point, Lake Simcoe and over time develop
his own lakeside retreat at Old Brewery Bay, where Lake Simcoe and
Lake Couchiching join.
Here in 1928 he built Leacock House
(above) designed by Wright & Noxon, Toronto. The scale
and ambience of the plans reflected Leacock's success and prestige
as a world renowned author and a celebrated academic.1
1. Hilary
Russell, National Historic Sites Directorate, Ottawa
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Photographs on this page by Roger Czerneda
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