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The Roaring Twenties saw the rise of the Group of Seven and Canadian Art, while Stephen Leacock became the world's most popular humourist, dividing his life between Orilla, Ontario, and the very Scottish McGill University in Montreal. Meanwhile a truly terrible novel set in Canada, involving a French hero boiling and eating his moccasins, won the Prix Goncourt for Maurice Constantin-Weyer.
By Douglas GibsonThe Roaring Twenties saw the rise of the Group of Seven and Canadian Art, while Stephen Leacock became the world's most popular humourist, dividing his life between Orilla, Ontario, and the very Scottish McGill University in Montreal. Meanwhile a truly terrible novel set in Canada, involving a French hero boiling and eating his moccasins, won the Prix Goncourt for Maurice Constantin-Weyer.