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FOR HUMOUR 1947-2003 |
STEPHEN BUTLER LEACOCK |
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FOR HUMOUR 1947-2003 |
STEPHEN BUTLER LEACOCK |
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was an internationally popular Canadian humorist, educator, lecturer, and author of more than 30 books of lighthearted sketches and essays. Close friends, colleagues and supporters of Stephen Leacock established Leacock Associates in 1946 as a means of honoring him. The Association set up a collection of books, letters and personal items in the Orillia Public Library in Toronto, commissioned a bronze bust of Leacock, and established a memorial Medal to be awarded annually for the best book of humour written by a Canadian. The winners of that medal and their books are as follows. (The title for the 1995 winner is our favorite.)
| 2003 | Dan Needles | With Axe and Flask, A History of Persephone Township from Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present |
| 2002 | Will Ferguson | Generica |
| 2001 | Lynn Coady | Play the Monster Blind |
| 2000 | Arthur Black | Black Tie and Tales |
| 1999 | Stuart McLean | Home From the Vinyl Cafe |
| 1998 | Mordecai Richler | Barney's Version |
| 1997 | Arthur Black | Black in the Saddle Again |
| 1996 | Marsha Boulton | Letters from the Country |
| 1995 | Josh Freed | Fear of Frying and Other Fax of Life |
| 1994 | Bill Richarson | Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast |
| 1993 | John Levesque | Waiting for Aquarius |
| 1992 | Roch Carrier | Prayers of a Very Wise Child |
| 1991 | Howard White | Writing in the Rain |
| 1990 | W. O. Mitchell | According to Jake and the Kid |
| 1989 | Joseph Kertes | Winter Tulips |
| 1988 | Paul Quarrington | King Leary |
| 1987 | W. P. Kinsella | The Fencepost Chronicles |
| 1986 | Joey Slinger | No Axe Too Small to Grind |
| 1985 | Ted Allan | Love is a Long Shot |
| 1984 | Gary Lautens | No Sex Please... We're Married |
| 1983 | Morley Torgov | The Outside Chance of Maxirnilian Glick |
| 1982 | Merlin J. Houston | Gophers Don't Pay Taxes |
| 1981 | Gary Lautens | Take My Family.... Please! |
| 1980 | Donald Jack | Me Bandy, You Cissie |
| 1979 | Sondra Gotlieb | True Confections |
| 1978 | Ernest Buckler | Whirligig |
| 1977 | Ray Guy | That Far Greater Bay |
| 1976 | Harry J. Boyle | The Luck of the Irish |
| 1975 | Morley Torgov | A Good Place to Come From |
| 1974 | Donald Jack | That's Me in the Middle |
| 1973 | Donald Bell | Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory |
| 1972 | Max Braitliwaite | The Night They Stole the Mounties Car |
| 1971 | Robert Thomas Allen | Wives, Children and Other Wildlife |
| 1970 | Farley Mowat | The Boat Who Wouldn't Float |
| 1969 | Stuart Trueman | You're Only as Old as You Act |
| 1968 | Max Ferguson | And Now.... Here's Max |
| 1967 | Richard J. Needham | Needham's Inferno |
| 1966 | George Bain | Nursery Rhymes to be Read Aloud by Young Parents with Old Children |
| 1965 | Gregory Clark | War Stories |
| 1964 | Harry J. Boyle | Homebrew and Patches |
| 1963 | Donald Jack | Three Cheers for Me |
| 1962 | W. O. Mitchell | Jake and the Kid |
| 1961 | Norman Ward | Mice in the Beer |
| 1960 | Pierre Berton | Just Add Water and Stir |
| 1959 | No Award | |
| 1958 | Eric Nicol | Girdle Me a Globe |
| 1957 | Robert Thomas Allen | The Grass is Never Greener |
| 1956 | Eric Nicol | Shall We Join the Ladies? |
| 1955 | Robertson Davies | Leaven of Malice |
| 1954 | Joan Walker | Pardon My Parka |
| 1953 | Lawrence Earl | The Battle of Baltinglass |
| 1952 | Jan Hilliard | The Salt-Box |
| 1951 | Eric Nicol | The Roving I |
| 1950 | Earle Birney | Turvey |
| 1949 | Angeline Hango | Truthfully Yours |
| 1948 | Paul Hiebert | Sarah Binks |
| 1947 | Harry L. Symons | Ojibway Melody |
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