Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Feb 12 2012
•Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously leaky holiday steamer. It is a town similar to many other small towns in Canada with its odd assortment of residents.
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Gordon Pinsent
Elder Stephen Leacock / Narrator
Owen Best
Young Stephen Leacock
Jill Hennessy
Agnes Leacock
Rick Roberts
Peter Leacock
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