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Stephen Leacock 1912
From: Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations
Date: 19940401
Author:John Robert Colombo
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Stephen Leacock 1912
"Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about seventy or eighty of them. You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square streets and the same maple trees and the same churches and hotels, everywhere the sunshine of the land of hope."
Stephen Leacock was frequently accused of modelling his fictional Mariposa on the Ontario town of Orillia, where he spent his summers in a residence that is now a museum dedicated to his life and work. But Mariposa was the quintessential small Ontario town of the ...
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