Two world famous authors buried here

St. Georges's Anglican Church & Cemetery, Sibbald Point, Ontario, Canada - a tiny church and small graveyard holding two major Canadian authors of world-wide fame.

Canadian humourist, author, political scientist, and historian Stephen Leacock is buried here. He is sometimes called "the Mark Twain of Canada" and Canada's top prize for humour writing is the Leacock Medal. Both Leacock and Twain are favourites of mine and, apparently, the late Groucho Marx. Wiki. And the Leacock Museum.

Also buried here is Mazo de la Roche, author of the Jalna series of novels of which there were 16 in total. She, like Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery lived near where Linda and I do. Mazo was born in Newmarket, Lucy in PEI, but Lucy lived for many years in nearby Leaskdale, Ontario and wrote 11 of her books there while raising a family. Both sets of stories were huge sellers in there day but Mazo's tales have not enjoyed the lasting fame, sales, PR, and international super-stardom of Lucy's books. Mazo wiki.

I took some photos to update their listings on Find-a-grave. The photos there were terrible, washed out, and the info accompanying them was inaccurate so I've sent in some pretty and clean shots including one like this of the church. It will take a day or few for them to be approved by the site owners. Earlier, I fulfilled a request to take a photo of a gravestone at 12 Mile Lake just two minutes up the road from the Inn where we had stayed. You can see John and Elsie Taylor's stone here, if you wish.