Dan Needles - Stephen Leacock Medal Nominations and Wins

Stephen Leacock Medal Nominations and Wins

  • Letters From Wingfield Farm, short-listed for the 1989 Stephen Leacock Medal
  • With Axe and Flask – A History of Persephone Township from Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present, winner of the 2003 Stephen Leacock Medal
  • Wingfield's Hope – More Letters from Wingfield Farm, shortlisted for the 2006 Stephen Leacock Medal

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