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Canadian Childhood: 1916-1936 I was born in Victoria, British Columbia, then a small Canadian provincial capital, halfway through the first cataclysmic War of the 20th century. Survivors used to refer to it, with unconscious irony, as the "Great" War. 0066-4227/80/ 1001-000 1 $01 .00 STANIER As one who grew up during the '20s and 30s on the isolated Canadian ' periphery, largely protected from the Great Depression, faint afterglow of Victorian optimism. passage of ev I experienced a I believed that science and culture would go hand in hand to the common enrichment of civilization. The ents during this dark and terrible century has long since shattered this illusion. I recall Victoria as being sharply stratified fifty years ago. There was a - minority of British gentry primarily a first generation influx, attracted by the mild and beautiful surroundings with its own peculiar esprit de classe. The gentry coexisted alongside of a large majority of native Canadians, democratic and egalitarian. Both my parents belonged to the gentry. My father had emigrated in 1888, at the age of 17. Blessed with a numerous Victorian family, my grandfather sold his farms in Shropshire during the agricultural depression of the '80s,
Annual Review of Microbiology – Annual Reviews
Published: Oct 1, 1980
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