1968 in Canada : a year and its legacies /
Nineteen sixty-eight in Canada
edited by Michael Hawes, Andrew C. Holman, and Christopher Kirkey.
- 1 online resource
- Mercury series. History paper .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Abstract -- Résumé -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Bobby and Pierre -- Chapter 2: A Very Canadian Revolution: The Transformation of Backroom Power in Canada's 1968 -- Chapitre 3: 1968, vue du Québec -- Chapter 4: The Nationalists of 1968 and the Search for Canadian Independence -- Chapter 5: Equality, Equity, and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women -- Chapter 6: The 1968 Thinkers' Conference and the Birth of Canadian Multiculturalism -- Chapter 7: Defending Indigenous Rights against the Just Society -- Chapter 8: Between Canadians and Culture: The First Year of the CRTC -- Chapter 9: Portrait of a Publisher: Jack McClelland and McClelland and Stewart in 1968 -- Chapter 10: Immigration and "Medical Manpower": 1968 and the Awkward Introduction of Medicare in Canada -- Chapter 11: 1968: A Turning Point for Language in Canada and Quebec -- Chapter 12: Standing on Guard for Our Waters: Ottawa's Response to the Transit of Alaskan Oil -- Chapitre 13: L'Union nationale à la croisée des chemins -- Chapter 14: Canada and the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968 -- Chapter 15: The Libreville Conference and Federalism in Canadian Foreign Relations -- Chapter 16: "Flowers have been getting a lot of publicity this year": 1968 and David Helwig's "Something for Olivia's Scrapbook I Guess" -- Contributors -- Index in English (Index en anglais) -- Index en français (Index in French) -- Back Cover
"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."--