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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History Livres numériques |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: McGarvey, Pete. Old Brewery Bay. Toronto : Dundurn Press, ©1994 (DLC) 95110121 (OCoLC)31515830 |
Named Person: | Stephen Leacock; Stephen Leacock; Stephen Leacock |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Pete McGarvey |
ISBN: | 9781554883400 1554883407 1281962333 9781281962331 9786611962333 6611962336 1282808990 9781282808997 9786612808999 6612808993 1770700757 9781770700758 |
OCLC Number: | 244770284 |
Language Note: | English. |
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 |
Responsibility: | James A. "Pete" McGarvey. |
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Abstract:
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.
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