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Notes The Stephen Leacock Award was formed in 1947, to identify the best in Canadian literary humour.
In 1969, the centennial of his birth, Canada Post distributed a six cent stamp with his image on it.
The next year, the Stephen Leacock Centennial Committee had a plaque erected at his English
birthplace and a mountain in the Yukon was named after him.
Numerous buildings in Canada are named after Leacock, including the Stephen Leacock Building
at McGill University, Stephen Leacock Public School in Ottawa, a theatre in Keswick, Ontario,
and a school in Toronto.

5.1.7 Screen Adaptations

Two of Stephen Leacock’s short stories were adapted as National Film Board of Canada animated
shorts by Gerald Potterton: The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones and My Financial Career. Based
on Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Sunshine Sketches aired on CBC Television in 1952-1953.
It was the first Canadian broadcast of an English-language dramatic series, as it debuted on the
first night that television was broadcast in Toronto. In 2012, a screen adaptation based on Sunshine
Sketches of a Little Town was aired on CBC Television to celebrate both the 75th anniversary of
the CBC and the 100th anniversary of Leacock’s unique and original collection of short stories. The
recent screen adaptation featured Gordon Pinsent as a mature Leacock.

5.1.8 Bibliography

Fiction

Literary Lapses (1910)
Nonsense Novels (1911)

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
Behind the Beyond (1913)
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914)

Essays and Literary Studies (1916)
Further Foolishness (1916)
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy (1915)
Winsome Winnie (1920)
Frenzied Fiction (1918)

Over the Footlights (1923)
The Hohenzollerns in America (1919)
My Discovery of England (1922)

The Garden of Folly (1924)
College Days (1923)
The Dry Pickwick (1932)
Winnowed Wisdom (1926)
The Iron Man and the Tin Woman (1929)

Short Circuits (1928)

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