How Stephen Leacock Saved a Local Boy from Diphtheria
Stephen Leacock, the renowned humorist and McGill University professor, sheltered a 10-year-old Orillia boy suffering from diphtheria on his Lake Couchiching property during a severe 1912 outbreak, according to local historian David Town. The life-saving intervention provided a quarantined family a secure campsite after nervous neighbors forced them out of an initial isolation field. The … Read more