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The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour (usually the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Stephen Leacock Award ) is an annual award presented to the best work of humorous literature written in English by a Canadian .
Stephen Leacock , a famous Canadian humour writer. The current prize is $10,000 (CAD ) and it is awarded each year in a ceremony in Leacock's hometown of Orillia, Ontario.
Winners 1947 - Harry L. Symons, Ojibway Melody 1948 - Paul Hiebert, Sarah Binks 1949 - Angeline Hango, Truthfully Yours 1950 - Earle Birney , Turvey 1951 - Eric Nicol, The Roving I 1952 - Jan Hilliard, The Salt Box 1953 - Lawrence Earl, The Battle of Baltinglass 1954 - Joan Walker, Pardon My Parka 1955 - Robertson Davies , Leaven of Malice 1956 - Eric Nicol, Shall We Join The Ladies? 1957 - Robert Thomas Allen The Grass is Never Greener 1958 - Eric Nicol, Girdle Me A Globe 1959 - No Award Given 1960 - Pierre Berton , Just Add Water and Stir 1961 - Norman Ward, Mice in the Beer 1962 - W. O. Mitchell , Jake and the Kid 1963 - Donald Jack , Three Cheers for Me 1964 - Harry J. Boyle, Homebrew and Patches 1965 - Gregory Clark, War Stories 1966 - George Bain, Nursery Rhymes to be Read Aloud by Young Parents with Old Children 1967 - Richard J. Needham , Needham's Inferno 1968 - Max Ferguson, And Now...Here's Max 1969 - Stuart Trueman, You're Only as Old as You Act 1970 - Farley Mowat , The Boat Who Wouldn't Float 1971 - Robert Thomas Allen, Wives, Children and Other Wild Life 1972 - Max Braithwaite, The Night They Stole the Mounties' Car 1973 - Donald Bell, Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory 1974 - Donald Jack , That's Me in the Middle 1975 - Morley Torgov, A Good Place to Come From 1976 - Harry J. Boyle, The Luck of the Irish 1977 - Ray Guy , That Far Greater Bay 1978 - Ernest Buckler, Whirligig 1979 - Sondra Gotlieb , True Confessions 1980 - Donald Jack , Me Brandy, You Cissie 1981 - Gary Lautens, Take My Family...Please! 1982 - Mervyn J. Huston, Gophers Don't Pay Taxes 1983 - Morley Torgov, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick 1984 - Gary Lautens, No Sex Please...We're Married 1985 - Ted Allan, Love is a Long Shot 1986 - Joey Slinger, No Axe too Small to Grind 1987 - W.P. Kinsella , The Fencepost Chronicles 1988 - Paul Quarrington , King Leary 1989 - John Kertes, Winter Tulips 1990 - W.O. Mitchell , According to Jake and the Kid 1991 - Howard White , Waiting in the Rain 1992 - Roch Carrier , Prayers of a Very Wise Child 1993 - Joseph Levesque, Waiting for Aquarius 1994 - Bill Richardson, Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast 1995 - Josh Freed, Fear of Frying and other Fax of Life 1996 - Marsha Boulton, Letters from the Country 1997 - Arthur Black, Black in the Saddle Again 1998 - Mordecai Richler , Barney's Version 1999 - Stuart McLean , Home from the Vinyl Cafe 2000 - Arthur Black, Black Tie and Tales 2001 - Stuart McLean , Vinyl Cafe Unplugged 2002 - Will Ferguson , Generica 2003 - Dan Needles, With Axe and Flask: A History of Persephone Township From Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present 2004 - Ian Ferguson, Village of the Small House: A Memoir of Sorts
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Stephen Butler Leacock (December 30, 1869 – March 28, 1944) was a British-Canadian writer and economist. Leacock , always of obvious intelligence, was sent to the elite private school of Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he was top of the class and so popular he was chosen as head boy. Leacock was both a social conservative and a partisan Conservative.
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