Author: Canada. Travel BureauPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Centennial Year Events in Canada, 1967
Author: Canada. Travel BureauPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Calendar of Events During Canada's Centennial Year, 1867-1967, in the County of Lincoln
Author: Lincoln (Ont. : County). Council. Publicity and Reception CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Canada 1967 : Programme of Principal Events
Author: Canada. Centennial CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Canada 1867-1967
Author: Canadian Corporation for the World Exhibition 1967 (Montreal)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Canada's Indians and the Centennial : a Guide to Indian Events in 1967
Author: Canada. Centennial CommissionPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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1967, the Last Good Year
Author: Pierre BertonPublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Few Canadians over the age of forty can forget the feeling of joy and celebration that washed over the country during Canada's centennial year. We were, Pierre Berton reminds us, a nation in love with itself, basking in the warm glow of international applause brought on by the unexpected success of Expo 67 and pumped up by the year-long birthday party that had us all warbling "Ca-na-da, as Bobby Gimby and his gaggle of small children pranced down the byways of the nation. It was a turning-point year, a watershed year--a year of beginnings as well as endings. One royal commission finally came to a close with a warning about the need for a new approach to Quebec. Another was launched to investigate, for the first time, the status of Canadian women. New attitudes to divorce and homosexuality were enshrined in law. A charismatic figure, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, made clear that the state had no place in the bedrooms of the nation. The seeds of Women's Lib, Gay Pride, and even Red Power, were sown in the centennial year. (Of all the pavilions on the Expo site, Berton singles out the Indian pavilion as having the greatest impact.) The country was in a ferment that year. Canadians worried about the Americanization of every institution from the political convention to "Hockey Night in Canada. People talked about the Generation Gap as thousands of flower children held love-ins in city parks. The government tried to respond by launching the Company of Young Canadians, a project that was less than successful. The most significant event of 1967 was Charles de Gaulle's notorious "Vive le Quebec libre!" speech in Montreal. It gave the burgeoning separatist movement a new legitimacy, enhanced by Rene Levesque's departure from the Liberal party later that year. Throughout the book, the author gives us insightful profiles of some of the significant figures of 1967: the centennial activists Judy LaMarsh and John Fisher; the Expo entrepreneurs, Philippe de Gaspe Beaubien and Edward Churchill; Walter Gordon, the fervent nationalist, and his rival, Mitchell Sharp; Lester Pearson and his "bete noire, John Diefenbaker; the three "men of the world" who helped make Canada internationally famous: Marshall McLuhan, Glenn Gould, and Roy Thomson; hippie leaders like David dePoe, American draft dodgers like Mark Satin, women's activists like Doris Anderson and Laura Sabia, youth workers like Barbara Hall, radicals like Pierre Vallieres (author of "White Niggers of America) and such dedicated nationalists as Madame Chaput Rolland and Andre Laurendeau. In spite of the feeling of exultation that marked the centennial year, an opposite sentiment runs through the book like dark thread: the growing fear that the country was facing its gravest crisis. Berton points out that we are far better off today than we were in 1967. "Then why all the hand wringing?" he asks. Because of "the very real fear that the country we celebrated so joyously thirty years ago is in the process of falling apart. "In that sense, 1967 was the last good year before all Canadians began to be concerned about the future of our country."
The Politics of Participation, a Study of Canada's Centennial Celebration
Author: Centennial Facts
Author: Canada. Centennial CommissionPublisher: Queen's Printer
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Listing of Centennial Events, Celebrations and Projects in the Province of Ontario During 1967
Author: The Anniversary Compulsion
Author: Peter H AykroydPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554883075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Whether it is birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Thanksgiving dinners or New Year's celebrations, we humans demonstrate a peculiar compulsion to celebrate the continuing cycle of the recurrent calendar dates that mark our lives. Public events of the same type evoke an even more pronounced response. The Anniversary Compulsion focuses on Canada's Centennial celebrations in 1967 as an example of how a classic mega-anniversary can be successfully organized and staged. With wit and wisdom, Peter Aykroyd describes how many of the key elements of Centennial year will undoubtedly be present in the staging of what is bound to be an unprecedented worldwide celebratory outburst – the advent of the 21st century, the Third Millennium.