1968 in Canada : a year and its legacies

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"The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one, unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians. It was a year when decisions and actions, both in Canada and outside its borders, were thick and contentious, and whose effects were momentous and far-reaching. It saw the rise of Trudeaumania and the birth of the Parti Québécois; the articulation of th...

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Canada History 1945-

Canada Politics and government 1945-1980

Canada Social conditions 1945-

Canada Social life and customs 1945-

Part of a Series:

Mercury series. History paper Mercury series. History paper ; 61

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ISBN:

9780776636597
0776636596

Description:

xvi, 380 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Nineteen sixty-eight in Canada

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Issued also in electronic format
Includes two chapters in French; abstracts and indexes in English and French

Contents:

Bobby and Pierre / Paul Litt
Very Canadian Revolution: The Transformation of Backroom Power in Canada's 1968 / P. E. Bryden
1968, vue du Québec / Jocelyn Létourneau
Nationalists of 1968 and the Search for Canadian Independence / Stephen Azzi
Equality, Equity, and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women / Jane Arscott
1968 Thinkers' Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism / Michael Temelini
Defending Indigenous Rights against the Just Society / Andrew Gemmell
Between Canadians and Culture: The First Year of the CRTC / Ira Wagman
Portrait of a Publisher: Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968 / Laura K. Davis
Immigration and "Medical Manpower": 1968 and the Awkward Introduction of Medicare in Canada / David Wright, Sasha Mullally
1968: A Turning Point for Language in Canada and Quebec / Graham Fraser
Standing on Guard for Our Waters: Ottawa's Response to the Transit of Alaskan Oil / Christopher Kirkey
L'Union nationale à la croisée des chemins / Alexandre Turgeon
Canada and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968 / Andrea Chandler
Libreville Conference and Federalism in Canadian Foreign Relations / Robin S. Gendron, David Edward Tabachnick
"Flowers have been getting a lot of publicity this year": 1968 and David Helwig's "Something for Olivia's Scrapbook I Guess" / Will Smith

LCCN:

2020446541

Control Number:

3077879

Other Authors:

Hawes, Michael K., 1954- editor
Holman, Andrew C. (Andrew Carl), 1965- editor
Kirkey, Christopher John, 1962- editor

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