Harry L. Symons

Harry Lutz Symons was a Canadian writer, who won the Stephen [Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour] in 1947 for Ojibway Melody, a volume of humorous essays about summer recreational life on Ontario's Georgian Bay.
His other works included Friendship, Three Ships West, The Bored Meeting and Orange Belt Special, and the non-fiction works Fences and Playthings of Yesterday: Harry Symons introduces the Percy C. Band Collection.
Symons, the son of architect William Limberry Symons, was an ace fighter pilot in World War I and later worked in insurance and real estate.
His son Thomas Symons, a noted academic, founding president of Trent University, and former chair of the Ontario [Human Rights Commission], credits the values expressed in Ojibway Melody with framing his career and contributing to Trent's decision to establish Canada's first university department in Indigenous Studies. Another son, Scott Symons, was a writer whose 1967 novel Place d'Armes was the first gay-themed novel published in Canada.