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 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.
Published in English with chapters in French.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.064/4
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0776636596 9780776636610
- LCCN
- F1034.2
- LCCN Item number
- A15 2021eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvi, 380 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00241721 (OCoLC)1224258239 (CaOOCEL)460741
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Nineteen sixty-eight in Canada
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Half Title Page 2
- Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Abstract 6
- Résumé 8
- Table of Contents 10
- List of Figures and Tables 12
- Acknowledgements 14
- Foreword 16
- Introduction 20
- Chapter 1: Bobby and Pierre 28
- Chapter 2: A Very Canadian Revolution: The Transformation of Backroom Power in Canada’s 1968 52
- Chapitre 3: 1968, vue du Québec 70
- Chapter 4: The Nationalists of 1968 and the Search for Canadian Independence 90
- Chapter 5: Equality, Equity, and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women 114
- Chapter 6: The 1968 Thinkers’ Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism 136
- Chapter 7: Defending Indigenous Rights against the Just Society 166
- Chapter 8: Between Canadians and Culture: The First Year of the CRTC 194
- Chapter 9: Portrait of a Publisher: Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968 214
- Chapter 10: Immigration and “Medical Manpower”: 1968 and the Awkward Introduction of Medicare in Canada 234
- Chapter 11: 1968: A Turning Point for Language in Canada and Quebec 252
- Chapter 12: Standing on Guard for Our Waters: Ottawa’s Response to the Transit of Alaskan Oil 272
- Chapitre 13: L’Union nationale à la croisée des chemins 298
- Chapter 14: Canada and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968 324
- Chapter 15: The Libreville Conference and Federalism in Canadian Foreign Relations 344
- Chapter 16: “Flowers have been getting a lot of publicity this year”: 1968 and David Helwig’s “Something for Olivia’s Scrapbook I Guess” 362
- Contributors 378
- Index in English (Index en anglais) 382
- Index en français (Index in French) 396
- Back Cover 402
