Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock
Reeks: Extraordinary Canadians
Margaret MacMillan
- Stephen
- Leacock's
- satiric
- masterpiece
- Sunshine
- Sketches
- of
- a
- Little
- Town
- captures
- "the
- Empire
- forever"
- mentality
- that
- marked
- Anglo-Canadian
- life
- in
- the
- early
- decades
- of
- the
- twentieth
- century.
- Historian
- Margaret
- Macmillan—whose
- books
- Women
- of
- the
- Raj
- and
- Paris
- 1919
- cast
- fresh
- light
- on
- the
- colonial
- legacy—has
- great
- affection
- for
- Leacock's
- gentle
- wit
- and
- sharp-eyed
- insight.
- The
- renowned
- historian
- examines
- Leacock's
- life
- as
- a
- poor
- but
- ambitious
- student
- who
- rose
- to
- become
- an
- economist,
- celebrated
- academic,
- and,
- most
- importantly,
- the
- beloved
- humorist
- who
- taught
- Canadians
- to
- laugh
- at themselves.
