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Post War Canada Review

Baby Boom

National Film Board of Canada

Massey Commission

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

St. Lawrence Seaway

Newfoundland

Welfare State ​

  • Canada Pension Plan

  • Employment Insurance

  • Medicare

  • Family Allowance

20th Century First Nations Issues

  • Indian Act, 1876

  • Residential Schools

  • Potlatch, Sun Dance

  • Department of Indian Affairs Reserve House

  • Assimilate

  • Nisga'a Treaty

  • Oka

La Survivance

Maurice Duplessis

Jean Lesage

Quiet Revolution

Maitres Chez Nous

Constitution Act, 1982

  • Repatriate

  • Charter of Rights and Freedoms

  • Notwithstanding Clause

  • Amending Formula

Brian Mulroney

National Reconciliation

Meech Lake Accord

Charlottetown Accord

Front de la Liberation du Quebec (FLQ)

James Cross

Pierre Laporte

FLQ Manifesto

Rene Levesque

Parti Quebecois

Jacques Parizeau

Lester B. Pearson

Bi and Bi Commission

Sovereignty-Association

Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Trudeaumania

Official Languages Act, 1969

"Just Watch Me"

Charles de Gaulle

Daniel Johnson

War Measures Act

  • "Apprehended Insurrection

"FLQ Killers

  • Lortie

  • Simard

  • Rose

  • Rose

Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act

Bill 22 - French Official Language of Quebec

Bill 101

Alliance Quebec

Lucien Bouchard

Bloc Quebecois

Bill 178

Concepts to Understand

  1. How has technology contributed to the changing of Canadian culture post World War Two?

  2. Canada worked hard at protecting its "culture" after World War Two. How did the government go about this?

  3. What major economic and infrastructure projects did Canada undertake to remain competitive with the rest of the industrialized world?

  4. Despite the post war prosperity, not everyone benefited from it. Explain.

  5. The 1960s can be categorized by momentous social change. Explain.

  6. How was the Indian Act of 1876 racist?

  7. What was the British Columbia Residential School experience for Native people?

  8. What did the Federal government do to be more inclusive of Quebec during the 1960-70s?

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