Famous Wingham Author & Nobel Prize Winner Alice Munroe Alice Laidlaw was born on July 10, 1931, just outside Wingham, Ontario; the town and its surroundings have been a constant in her work (renamed Jubilee, or perhaps Hanratty). "I am intoxicated by this landscape, by the almost flat fields, the swamps, the hardwood bush, by the continental climate with its extravagant winters," she wrote, introducing the Selected Stories (1996). "I am at home with the brick houses, the falling-down barns, the occasiona