Hours & Location
LEACOCK MUSEUM HOURS FALL – WINTER 2011-2012
| OFFICE | MUSEUM | SHORELINE CAFE | |
| Monday | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | TBA |
| Tuesday | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | TBA |
| Wednesday | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | TBA |
| Thursday | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | TBA |
| Friday | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | TBA |
| Saturday | CLOSED | CLOSED | TBA |
| Sunday | CLOSED | CLOSED | TBA |
Museum Location
50 Museum Drive, Box 625
ORILLIA, ONTARIO, CANADA
L3V 6K5
From Highway 11
Take highway 12 south to Forest Ave.
then east to Museum Drive
From Highway 12
Proceed north follow highway 12B to Forest Ave.
and proceed east to Museum Drive
- Toronto 129km / 80 miles
- Newmarket 92 km / 57 miles
- Barrie 38 km / 23 miles
- Parry Sound 114 km / 71 miles
- Muskoka 55 km / 34 miles
Stephen Leacock Loved Fishing
Ronny Jaques, 1930 photograph of Stephen Leacock fly fishing in his trout stream.
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”.
1. Hilary Russell, National Historic Sites Directorate, Ottawa
