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Author McGarvey, Pete.

Title The Old Brewery Bay : a Leacockian tale / James A. "Pete" McGarvey
Published Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 120 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Prologue: Stephen Leacock, 1869â#x80;#x93;1944 -- 1 The Old Brewery Bay -- 2 C.H. Hale, The Catalyst -- 3 Saving the Leacock Home, 1949 -- 4 The Leacock Cause, 1949â#x80;#x93;1955 -- 5 Lou Ruby Strikes a Deal, 1956 -- 6 Waiting on Ottawa, 1957 -- 7 A Dream Comes True, 1958 -- 8 The Dream Expands, 1959â#x80;#x93;1960 -- 9 Aftermath -- Postscript: Memories, by Jay Cody, Curator 1977â#x80;#x93;1993 -- Appendix: Winners of the Stephen Leacock Medal Award for Humour
Summary Here we have the personal account of the misadventures that preceded the opening to the public of the Leacock home in 1958. Forty years ago, in October 1954, a committee was formed, chaired by Pete McGarvey, to acquire and preserve Stephen Leacock's summer home, known as The Old Brewery Bay. Four years later a golden key opened the front door of the home, allowing Leacock fans to pay homage to the humorist in a setting he had prized above every other. As the years have passed, appreciation of Leacock's genius has grown and today the Leacock Museum is open year-round to visitors from all parts of the globe. The Old Brewery Bay is a Leacockian yarn full of ironies, the greatest one being that the salvation of Leacock's home was accomplished not by a national campaign involving governments, philanthropists, McGill alumni, and foundations (all of whom were approached in a spirit of urgency and all of whom backed away), but by a gang of naive and stubborn Orillians, using old-fashioned political moxie. Leacock would have loved that - his Mariposans showing the big sophisticated world how to get things done
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 -- Homes and haunts -- Ontario -- Orillia
SUBJECT Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 fast
Subject Stephen Leacock Museum -- History
SUBJECT Stephen Leacock Museum fast
Subject Literary landmarks -- Ontario -- Orillia
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Homes
Literary landmarks
Ontario -- Orillia
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
History
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
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