Editing Stephen Leacock (section)

== Death and tributes ==
[[File:Leacock and son.png|thumb|left|Leacock and his son in 1916]]
Predeceased by Trix (who had died of breast cancer in 1925), Leacock was survived by son Stevie (Stephen Lushington Leacock (1915–1974). In accordance with his wishes, after his death from [[Esophageal cancer|throat cancer]], Leacock was buried in the St George the Martyr Churchyard (St. George's Church, Sibbald Point), [[Sutton, Ontario]].

[[File:Leacock grave in the shade (35786202724).jpg|thumb|right|Leacock's grave (shaded) in the churchyard in Sibbald's Point]]

Shortly after his death, Barbara Nimmo, his niece, [[literary executor]] and benefactor, published two major posthumous works: ''Last Leaves'' (1945) and ''The Boy I Left Behind Me'' (1946). His summer cottage became derelict, and was declared a [[National Historic Site of Canada]] in 1958. It currently operates as a museum called the Stephen Leacock Museum National Historic Site.

In 1947, the [[Stephen Leacock Award]] was created to meet the best in Canadian literary humour. In 1969, the centennial of his birth, [[Canada Post]] issued a six-cent stamp with his image on it. The following year, the Stephen Leacock Centennial Committee had a plaque erected at his English birthplace and a mountain in [[Yukon]] was named after him.

A number of buildings in Canada are named after Leacock, including the [[Stephen Leacock Building]] at McGill University,<ref>{{cite web |title=Stephen Leacock Building |url=http://cac.mcgill.ca/campus/Buildings/Stephen_Leacock.html |publisher=McGill University |access-date=20 March 2017}}</ref> Stephen Leacock Public School in Ottawa, a theatre in [[Keswick, Ontario]], and a school [[Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute]] in [[Toronto]].