Stephen Leacock Award

The Stephen Leacock Award for Humour is an annual award presented to the best work of humourous literature written in English by a Canadian. It is named for Stephen Leacock a famour Canadian humour writer.

• 2003: Dan Needles, With Axe and Flask - A History of Persephone Township From Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present
• 2002: Will Ferguson, Generica
• 2001: Stuart McLean, Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
• 2000: Arthur Black, Black Tie and Tales
• 1999: Stuart McLean, Home from the Vinyl Cafe
• 1998: Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
• 1997: Arthur Black, Black in the Saddle Again
• 1996: Marsha Boulton, Letters from the Country
• 1995: Josh Freed, Fear of Frying and other Fax of Life
• 1994: Bill Richardson, Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast
• 1993: Joseph Levesque, Waiting for Aquarius
• 1992: Roch Carrier, Prayers of a Very Wise Child
• 1991: Howard White, Waiting in the Rain
• 1990: W.O. Mitchell, According to Jake and the Kid
• 1989: John Kertes, Winter Tulips
• 1988: Paul Quarrington, King Leary
• 1987: W.P. Kinsella, The Fencepost Chronicles
• 1986: Joey Slinger, No Axe too Small to Grind
• 1985: Ted Allan, Love is a Long Shot
• 1984 Gary Lautens, No Sex Please...We're Married
• 1983 Morley Torgov, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
• 1982 Mervyn J. Huston, Gophers Don't Pay Taxes Tree
• 1981 Gary Lautens, Take My Family...Please! John
• 1980 Donald Jack, Me Brandy, You Cissie
• 1979 Sondra Gotlieb, True Confessions
• 1978 Ernest Buckler, Whirligig
• 1977 Ray Guy, That Far Greater Bay
• 1976 Harry J. Boyle, The Luck of the Irish
• 1975 Morley Torgov, A Good Place to Come From
• 1974 Donald Jack, That's Me in the Middle
• 1973 Donald Bell, Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory
• 1972 Max Braithwaite, The Night They Stole the Mounties' Car
• 1971 Robert Thomas, Allen Wives, Children & Other Wild Life
• 1970 Farley Mowat, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
• 1969 Stuart Trueman, You're Only as Old as You Act
• 1968 Max Ferguson, And Now...Here's Max
• 1967 Richard J. Needham, Needham's Inferno
• 1966 George Bain, Nursery Rhymes to be Read Aloud by Young Parents with Old Children
• 1965 Gregory Clark, War Stories
• 1964 Harry J. Boyle, Homebrew and Patches Clarke Irwin
• 1963 Donald Jack, Three Cheers for Me
• 1962 W. O. Mitchell, Jake and the Kid
• 1961 Norman Ward, Mice in the Beer
• 1960 Pierre Berton, Just Add Water and Stir
• 1959 -- No Award Given --
• 1958 Eric Nicol, Girdle Me A Globe
• 1957 Robert Thomas Allen The Grass Is Never Greener
• 1956 Eric Nicol, Shall We Join The Ladies?
• 1955 Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice
• 1954 Joan Walker, Pardon My Parka
• 1953 Lawrence Earl, The Battle Of Baltinglass
• 1952 Jan Hilliard, The Salt Box
• 1951 Eric Nicol, The Roving I
• 1950 Earle Binney, Turvey
• 1949 Angeline Hango, Truthfully Yours
• 1948 Paul Hiebert, Sarah Binks
• 1947 Harry L. Symons, Ojibway Melody