Suggested by AC Benus* who discovered Stephen's WW1 articles
Stephen was six
years old when the family moved to Canada, where they lived on a farm near the
village of Sutton, Ontario, on the shores of Lake Simcoe. Educated at the
private school of Upper Canada College in Toronto, Stephen went on to study at
University College at the University of Toronto. He left university to work as a
teacher.
In 1899 Stephen enrolled for graduate studies at the University of
Chicago under Thorstein Veblen, where he received a doctorate in political
science and political economy. On 7th August 1900, Stephen married Beatrice Maude Hamilton.
Moving from Chicago, Illinois, to Montreal,
Quebec, Stephen became the William Dow Professor of Political
Economy and long-time chair of Department of Economics and Political Science at
McGill University.
Stephen died on 28th March 1944.
“The Boy who came back” published in “Vanity Fair”
magazine November 1918
Sources: Find my Past, FreeBMD, Wikipedia
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1918/11/the-boy-who-came-back
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4781/4781-h/4781-h.htm
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/leacock-boyileftbehindme/leacock-boyileftbehindme-00-h-dir/leacock-boyileftbehindme-00-h.html
*AC Benus is the author of a book about German WW1 poet Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele : “The Thousandth Regiment: A Translation of and Commentary on Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele’s War Poems” by AC Benus (AC Benus, San Francisco, 2020). Along with Hans's story, the book includes original poems as well as translations. ISBN: 978-1657220584
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1657220583
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1657220583
