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The Journey, not the Arrival, Matters

The Journey, not the Arrival, Matters 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, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Microbiology Annual Reviews

The Journey, not the Arrival, Matters

Annual Review of Microbiology , Volume 34 (1) – Oct 1, 1980

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Publisher
Annual Reviews
Copyright
Copyright 1980 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
Subject
Review Articles
ISSN
0066-4227
eISSN
1545-3251
DOI
10.1146/annurev.mi.34.100180.000245
pmid
6776882
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Abstract

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,

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Published: Oct 1, 1980

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