Multi-coloured Victorians

Big Cities - Halifax, Thursday 2017 June 22

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June 22nd 2017
This morning my mental elastic was pulled taut as our first speaker tried valiantly to associate Jane Austen with Canada, even beyond the obvious employment for a time of her brothers in Halifax. This is why I decided not to do a PhD in literature – obscurantism. The second presentation was much more gruesome and macabrely funny: a medical doctor revealed that men in the navy died most often of ... read more

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A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the sou... ... read more