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Contents may not be commercially reproduced, but reproduction for not-for-profit educational purposes is encouraged provided that PLEA is properly credited and contents are not taken out of context. Graphics credit Shutterstock. © 2017 Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan, Inc. ISBN #978-1-988445-09-0 Table of ConTenTs ...............................................................................................................................................................................1 Introduction ......................................................................3 SunshineThe People Sketches of Mariposa of a.................................................................................................................................................. Little Town: Pre-reading 5 The Demographics of Mariposa ................................................................................................................................7 Leacock on Immigration ................................................................................................................................................9 Horatian Satire and Stephen Leacock: An Overview .................................................................................11 ..........................................................................13 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town: The Book Preface ........................................................................................................................................................................................15 ................................................................................................................................................15 Deeper Understanding Sunshine Sketches “Give it another squeeze”: Leacock and Recycled Writing ..........................................................................................15 In Depth: Irony and the Intrusive Narrator of ......................................................16 In Depth: Politics, Patronage, and Political Financing Laws .................................................................18 One: The Hostelry of Mr. Smith ...........................................................................................................................21 Deeper Understanding ................................................................................................................................................21 “Dindon farci à la Josh Smith”: Corporate Social Responsibility ...............................................................................21 “Some of the people signed it twenty or thirty times”: Petitions ..............................................................................22 In Depth: Prohibition and Liquor Regulation ................................................................................................23 Two: The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe ............................................................................................25 Deeper Understanding ................................................................................................................................................25 “Everybody knew Jeff and liked him”: Kindliness and Humour ................................................................................25 In Depth: Financial Regulations and the Importance of Language ..................................................26 Three: The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias .............................................................29 Deeper Understanding ................................................................................................................................................29 “So presently they both knew that they were blocked out of one another’s houses for some time to come”: John Stuart Mill and Engaging Other Opinions .............................................................................................29 “The Mariposa Belle always seems to me to have some of those strange properties that distinguish Mariposa itself”: The Real Mariposa Belle ...................................................................................................................31 “When they put her in the water the lifeboat touched it for the first time since the old Macdonald Government placed her on Lake Wissanotti”: Lifeboats and Public Safety .........................................................31 In Depth: Orillia, Treaty Land, and Inhabitants of Lake Couchiching’s Shores .........................32 Four: The Ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Drone ......................................................................................35 Deeper Understanding ................................................................................................................................................35 “Was it already the dawn of the New Jerusalem?”: Leacock on Religion ................................................................35 “The Dean always showed the greatest delicacy of feeling in regard to any translation”: Reliable Information ..........................................................................................................................................................................37 In Depth: Burial Sites and Ownership of Human Remains ....................................................................38 Five: The Whirlwind Campaign in Mariposa .........................................................................................41 Deeper Understanding ................................................................................................................................................42 “The day for that kind of religious bigotry is past”: Fundamental Freedoms in Canada ....................................42 In Depth: Charities and Administrative Costs ...............................................................................................43 Six: The Beacon on the Hill .....................................................................................................................................47 Deeper Understanding ................................................................................................................................................47 “Against the intrigues of a set of infernal skunks that make too much money anyway”: Judicial Opinions ...47 In Depth: Fiction and Literary Libel ....................................................................................................................49 Seven: The Extraordinary Entanglement of Mr. Pupkin..............................................................53 Deeper Understanding ................................................................................................................................................54 “When a Liberal got in it made him mad, and he said so”: Judges and Political Connections ............................54 “The Judge howled like an Algonquin Indian”: Historical Wrongs and Reconciliation .......................................55 In Depth: The Conduct of Canada’s Judges ......................................................................................................57 Eight: The Fore-Ordained Attachment of Zena Pepperleigh and Peter Pupkin ....59 Deeper Understanding ................................................................................................................................................59 “With all the hardihood of the United Empire Loyalists”: Canada’s First Refugees .............................................59 “Young Pupkin was kept out of the law by the fool system of examinations”: Becoming a Lawyer .................60 In Depth: Working for the Bank in the Early Twentieth Century ......................................................61 Nine: The Mariposa Bank Mystery ..................................................................................................................63 Deeper Understanding ................................................................................................................................................63 “Half the witnesses were off with shotguns as soon as the court was cleared”: Coroner’s Inquests...............63 In Depth: Identifying and Combatting Profiling and Racial Profiling .............................................65 Ten: The Great Election in Missinaba County .......................................................................................69 Deeper Understanding ................................................................................................................................................70