Kathleen perhaps never thought much about the fact that she, like others 
     
     around her, were in the vanguard of profound social and economic 
     
     changes that would shake Prince Edward Island to its very core. From 
     
     her vantage point in 1949, as Canada was entering the second half of the 
     
     20th century, she could barely even begin to imagine the social, cultural 
     
     and economic changes that she would experience in the neXt 60—plus 
     
     years. The generation that emerged from the depression and war would 
     
     see the world transformed. 
     
    
   
   
    
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