Stephen Leacock remembers the Redpath Museum

Montreal: Seaport and City

by Stephen Leacock

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.

1942, New York

 “On the other side of the campus is the Redpath Library, a marvelous repository of books, a hive of working students, busy as bees and (exactly) as quiet. Beside it, in real silence, is the College Museum. Years ago it carried a sign, “Admission 10 cents.” Nobody went in. Professors lived and died (it is literally true) and never went in; the admission, I say, was ten cents. They moved the sign; admission is now free, but people still hesitate. They say that inside are Hochelaga skulls, the oyster shells found on the mountainside by Sir William Dawson (proving the existence of the Champlain Sea), and much else- more than ten cents' worth.”

-Stephen Leacock