Bucking Conservatism : Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s

Leon Crane Bear; Karissa Robyn Patton; Larry Hannant

“The chapters of Bucking Conservatism recall the ‘Long Sixties’ as a time of small, diverse eruptions, often local ones, through which Albertans asserted rights, opened day care centres, stood down a bulldozer and a freeway, experimented in painting and poetry, and articulated a contemporary ethic of conservation.”