Stephen Leacock Museum / Old Brewery Bay

Stephen Leacock Museum / Old Brewery Bay is a National Historic Site of Canada in Orillia, Ontario.

Ontario · 50 Museum Drive, Orillia, Ontario · location approximate

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The Old Brewery Bay This property on Lake Couchiching, which Stephen Leacock purchased in 1908 and named "The Old Brewery Bay", was a source of creativity and happiness for Canada's most celebrated humorist. Here, he absorbed the impressions which inspired his masterpiece, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, and indulged his passions for fishing, sailing, mixed farming, and hosting family and friends. HIs personality and his status as a world renowned author and academic are reflected in the present residence, whose construction in 1928 recycled components of a previous cottage which stood closer to the lake.

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Cette propriété en bordure du lac Couchiching, que Stephen Leacock acheta en 1908 et nomma «The Old Brewery Bay», fut une source d'inspiration et de bonheur pour le plus célèbre humoriste du Canada. Ici, il se pénétra des impressions qui alimentèrent son chef-d'oeuvre, Un été à Mariposa : croquis en un clin d'oeil, s'adonna à ses passions -- pêche, voile et polyculture -- et accueillit parents et amis. Sa personnalité et sa renommée mondiale d'écrivain et d'universitaire se reflètent dans la résidence actuelle, construite en 1928 à même des éléments recyclés d'une petite maison plus proche du lac.

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Stephen Leacock Museum / Old Brewery Bay

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