Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town: Mariposa on the Shores of Lake Wissanotti
Stephen Leacock
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Mariposa, Ontario: a bank clerk in love, a sinking steamer in six feet of water, a church that burns profitably, an election nobody can lose. Leacock ran the economics department at McGill by day and claimed the humour paid better; he wrote this in 1912 about the town he actually lived beside, and its people never entirely forgave him. The affection and the knife are in the same sentence throughout. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Tom Thomson and James McNeill Whistler follow the lake, its wharves and its weather through the book.
Mariposa, Ontario: a bank clerk in love, a sinking steamer in six feet of water, a church that burns profitably, an election nobody can lose. Leacock ran the economics department at McGill by day and claimed the humour paid better; he wrote this in 1912 about the town he actually lived beside, an...
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Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) was head of economics at McGill and, by his own account, made more from a few pages of nonsense than from a lifetime of political science. He was the best-known humorist in the English-speaking world in the years around the First World War.
Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) was head of economics at McGill and, by his own account, made more from a few pages of nonsense than from a lifetime of political science. He was the best-known humorist in the English-speaking world in the years around the First World War.
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