Culture involves all knowledge beliefs and customs of a people; undergoing enlightenment and refinement often through formal and/or informal education. Cultures die advance regress clash change assimilate or are assimilated are sometimes obliterated through genocide and often survive despite over-whelming adversities. Ray Simm provides some aspects of a spectrum of cultures ranging from his childhood in depression time Hants County through the years of World War 2 to his experience as a teacher and educator in Halifax (Africville)to North End Winnipeg and to First Nations of Turtle Island including the Inuit.