Leacock Museum, Orillia

side facing land with sundial

Leacock's typewriter on desk in solarium

View towards lake

lake side

heron by boat house

decorated chairs part of art competition

Concrete with Leacock's Latin: Years are long, hours short

The house was built in an English style - the plaster on the outside does not stand up to Canadian winters and with the solarium and the dark floors and paneling it's REALLY hot inside in Canadian summers!

Fire extinguisher - the museum doesn't know what's in it - you were supposed to throw this glass bulb at a fire and it would put it out. (update - it's carbon tetrachloride!!)

Leacock was a small man!

Kinetic Sculpture by Rodney Frost on exhibit 

Furniture by Bernice Vasey, at Double Door Studios and Gallery , 4004 Horseshoe Valley Road West, Springwater, ON L0L 1Y0 (till August 4, 2013)

Nothwinds Beach, Blue Mountains, ON

 Nice free beach west of Collingwood on Georgian Bay

 Someone put artificial palm trees on this island

Couchiching Beach Park / French's food stand, Orillia, Ontario

Couchiching Beach Park scale railroad, Orillia, Ontario - locals tell me that it originally was a steam train that operated in an amusement park that was next to this park. The steam train had to be replaced by this diesel as a steam engine requires more licensing - the steam train was sold back to the company that built it many decades earlier in Tonawanda, NY.

Bandstand

French's - built in 1920 by George French, a handicapped man. Stephen Leacock would walk from his house here to have tea, according to a 1995 article in the Orillia Packet and Times, from his summer house and have tea at these tables in the 1930s and 40s. He used to walk along the CPR line that would bring daytrippers from Toronto to the beach. There's plaques on the table tops mentioning this so I think the tables and chairs are originals! Not even the local municipal government has designated this as a historical site, although the Orillia Municipal Heritage Committee includes it in its Walking Tour of Historic Orillia pamphlet.