Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 3) by Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)

Widely considered a classic of Canadian humorous literature, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town tells stories set in the fictional town of Mariposa. The author Stephen Leacock most certainly based the stories on experience at his summer home in Orillia, Ontario. (Summary by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle)