A Social History of Canada by George Woodcock

In 1955, he took a post in the English department of the University of British Columbia, where he stayed until the 1970s.

Following the war, he returned to Canada, eventually settling in Vancouver, British Columbia. At Camp Angel in Oregon, a camp for conscientious objectors, he was a founder of the Untide Press, which sought to bring poetry to the public in an inexpensive but attractive format. Woodcock spent World War II working on a farm, as a conscientious objector. Woodcock later wrote The Crystal Spirit (1966), a critical study of Orwell and his work which won a Governor General's Award. Eliot and Aldous Huxley and became good friends with George Orwell despite ideological disagreements. It was during these years that he met several prominent literary figures, including T. He was to remain an anarchist for the rest of his life, writing several books on the subject. Though his family was quite poor, Woodcock had the opportunity to go to Oxford University on a partial scholarship however, he turned down the chance because he would have had to become a member of the clergy.Instead, he took a job as a clerk at the Great Western Railway and it was there that he first became interested in anarchism (specifically libertarian socialism). Woodcock was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but moved with his parents to England at an early age, attending Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow and Morley College.

A Social History of Canada by George Woodcock