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1968 in Canada : a year and its legacies / edited by Michael K. Hawes, Andrew C. Holman, and Christopher Kirkey.

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Canadian Museum of History and University of Ottawa Press ; 2021.

Canada -- Social conditions -- 1945-1971.

Canada -- History -- 20th century.

Canada -- Politics and government -- 1963-1968.

Canada -- Politics and government -- 1968-1979.

Mercury series. Paper (1994) 61.

9780776636597 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Nineteen sixty-eight in Canada

xvi, 380 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Includes two chapters in French; abstracts and indexes in English and French.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Bobby and Pierre / Paul Litt -- Very Canadian revolution: the transforamtion of backroom power in Canada's 1968 / P. E. Bryden -- 1968, vue du Québec / Jocelyn Létourneau -- Nationalists of 1968 and the search for Canadian independence / Stephen Azzi -- Equality, equity, and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women / Jane Arscott -- 1968 Thinkers' Conference and the birth of Canadian multiculturalism / Michael Temelini -- Defending Indigenous rights against the Just Society / Andrew Gemmell -- Between Canadians and culture: the first year of the CRTC / Ira Wagman -- Portrait of a publisher: Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart in 1968 / Laura K. Davis -- Immigration and "medical manpower": 1968 and the awkward introduction of Medicare in Canada / David Wright, Sasha Mullally -- 1968: A turning point for language in Canada and Quebec / Graham Fraser -- Standing on guard for our waters: Ottawa's repsonse to the transit of Alaskan Oil / Christopher Kirkey -- L'Union nationale à la croisée chemins / Alexandre Turgeon -- Canada and the Czechoslavak Crisis of 1968 / Andrea Chandler -- Libreville Conference and federalism in Canadian foreign relations / Robin S. Gendron, David Edward Tabachnick -- "Flowers have been getting a lot of publicity this year": 1968 and David Helwig's "Something for Olivia's scrapbook I guess" / Will Smith.

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.

Hawes, Michael K., 1954-

Holman, Andrew C. (Andrew Carl), 1965-

Kirkey, Christopher John, 1962-

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