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Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.

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Stephen Leacock
Age: 74 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 30
Died: 1944
Died: March 28
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Stephen Butler Leacock
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