Eighty Years On, What Is Left of Stephen Leacock?

Before John Maynard Keynes there was Stephen Leacock. Before John Ralston Saul there was Stephen Leacock. Before Margaret Atwood there was Stephen Leacock. Before Rex Murphy there was Stephen Leacock. Before all those Leacock Medal winners there was Stephen Leacock. Before Stephen Leacock there was nobody like him. What is left of him now, after eighty years? This will be the culminating talk in a series of presentations retracing Stephen Leacock’s 1936-37 tour of Western Canada. For information on other stages of the “Re-tour” of Stephen Leacock, go to www.voyageurstorytelling.ca