[1] Galbraith, John Kenneth, The Affluent Society, second ed, 1970, New American Library, 1979, pp 33-42.
[2] The Ontario Ministry of Education and training lists 25 "universities and related institutions" in the province. Among them, 13 were either founded or achieved University status in the 1960's, one in the 1970's and two in the 1990's. The Ministry also lists 25 "Colleges of applied arts and technology", all of them inaugurated in the 1960's.
[3] Personal anecdote, told to me in 1994 by Paul Hinchliffe, who was at the time a driver for J & H Hinchliffe of Bury, near Manchester in England.
[4] Personal communication by Manpower Canada public relations staff.
[5] Drucker, Peter, Adventures of a Bystander, pp 259-260.
[6] "Survey of Universities" insert in The Economist, Oct 4/97. p 4 of the survey shows numbers on what percentage of each population attends tertiary educational institutions, p 6 reports the percentage of graduates. Because both numbers are given in bar charts, my numbers are approximate -- based on my best reading of the charts.
[7] "Workers in low wage jobs in 1997" The Economy Vol 9 #4, fall 1998, section III.
[8] Purvis, Andrew "Pulling up Stakes," Time, May 11/98, article starts on p 44. Economist Don Devoretz of Simon Fraser University is quoted on p 45.