Survival in a Continuously Shrinking World

Senator Vivienne Poy

CCAS Annual Meeting
Presidential Luncheon Address – Vancouver, BC
November 3, 2005

President Abrahamse, distinguished scholars, honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen:
I would first like to thank Prof. Karen Gould and Prof. Julia Wallace for inviting me here today. It is indeed a great honour.
I wonder how many of you remember what the world was like about 60 years ago, at the end of the Pacific War. Maybe most of you are not old enough. There was no such thing as air conditioning or T.V., and - can you imagine - you had to put your hand out to signal when you wanted to make a turn while driving a car. I still remember seeing on the news at a theatre about the first escalator installed in a London department store.
As a child, my world was the British Colony of Hong Kong. All our close relatives lived either on the island of Victoria or in Kowloon. Whenever we had a family gathering,......

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