1968 in Canada

A Year and Its Legacies

de Michael K. Hawes (éditeur), Andrew C. Holman (éditeur), Christopher Kirkey (éditeur)

Maison d'édition : University of Ottawa Press

avril 2021

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Résumé

The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one,unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities andtheir consequences for the development of a newnational consciousness among Canadians.

It was a year when decisions and actions, both inCanada and outside its borders, were thick andcontentious, and whose effects were momentous andfar-reaching. It saw the rise of Trudeaumania and thebirth of the Parti Québécois; the articulation of thenew nationalism in English Canada and an alternativevision for Indigenous rights and governance; a series ofpublic hearings in the Royal Commission on the Statusof Women; the establishment of the Canadian Radioand Television Commission, nation-wide Medicare andCanLit; and a striving for both a new relationship withthe United States and a more independent foreignpolicy everywhere else. And more. Virtually no segmentof Canadian life was untouched by both the turmoiland the promise of generational change.

Published in English with chapters in French.

Auteur

Michael K. Hawes (Edité par)

Michael K. Hawes is CEO at Fulbright Canada and professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University. He has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley, Tsukuba University, IUJ, USC and UBC.
Andrew C. Holman (Edité par)

Andrew C. Holman is a professor of history and the director of the Canadian Studies Program at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts.
Christopher Kirkey (Edité par)

Christopher Kirkey is Director of the Center for the Study of Canada and the Institute on Quebec Studies at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh.