Paul Hiebert (1892–1987)
Well-known author and university professor Paul Hiebert retired to his wife’s birthplace in Carman, Manitoba. His home was designated as a municipal heritage site, later de-designated and demolished. A cairn was placed on the site by the Carman/Dufferin Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee. It reads: “Dr. Paul Hiebert (1892–1987) was a chemistry professor who became a nationally recognized author. He won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 1947 with his first book Sarah Binks, a Canadian bestseller. He wrote its sequel Willows Revisited in 1967.
He was one of Canada’s major humorists with his tongue-in-cheek humour that satirized prairie life and social pretensions. Some of his other books included Tower in Siloam, Doubting Castle, and Not As the Scribes. He built his house on the site of this cairn in the 1930s, using it as a cottage until retirement, when it became his permanent home.” The house was later demolished and a cairn was placed on the site by the Carman/Dufferin Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee.
See also: Historic Sites of Manitoba: Paul Hiebert Memorial (Carman)