1968 in Canada

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9780776636610

<p>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. </p>

<p>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 the

new nationalism in English Canada and an alternative

vision for Indigenous rights and governance; a series of

public hearings in the Royal Commission on the Status

of Women; the establishment of the Canadian Radio

and Television Commission, nation-wide Medicare and

CanLit; and a striving for both a new relationship with

the United States and a more independent foreign

policy everywhere else. And more. Virtually no segment

of Canadian life was untouched by both the turmoil

and the promise of generational change.</p>

<p><i>Published in English with chapters in French.</i></p>