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Leacock Museum - Orillia

Stephen Leacock was an avid fisherman, with a passion for fly-fishing, who contributed much to fishing literature.

His numerous loving and lyrical essays about fishing were undoubtedly spawned at Old Brewery Bay1 and nearby where he leased a stream, later transforming it, in part, into a trout pond.

He was probably speaking of himself when he wrote about the writer Izaak Walton [The Compleat Angler 1653], "... he bought himself the thing of which all anglers dream - a little place in the country, his own country - and all his dreams came true".