Terms
This was the forced adoption of indigenous children by ethnic European households.
This term appeared for the first time in the 1950s, representing a new group of youth that were not immediately rushed into the workforce.
What is Teenager?
The FLQ kidnaps two people, and Marshall law is declared in this event of the 1970s.
What is the October Crisis?
This crisis began because a town in Quebec wanted to expand a golf course.
What is the Oka Crisis or the Kanesatake Resistance?
PM Pierre Trudeau made this term an official policy of Canada, to truly represent the growing diversity of the Canadian population.
What is Multiculturalism
The destruction of this Nova Scotian town was seen as a racist, and exclusionary event, that later forced an apology by the provincial and federal governments.
What is Africville?
This was the first conflict of the Cold War that Canada participated in...
What is the Korean War?
The term from the Cold War was the reason there was no "hot war" between the US and USSR. Which makes some people 'Angry'
This was the topic of the referendum in the early 90s in Quebec, it was defeated by a margin of 1%
What is separatism?
Championed by Lester B. Pearson this policy becomes integrated into Canadian Foreign policy, and dictates how Canada helps in international conflicts.
What is Peacekeeping?
This was a policy of exclusion and separation of people based on race. It affected famously schools, bathrooms, buses, and movie theatres in Canada.
What is Segregation?
Lester B. Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize due to his peacekeeping in what conflict?
What is the Suez Crisis?
In 1969, the Liberal government proposed the end of the Indian Act. Which was later disavowed as another attempt to assimilate and disregard Indigenous culture.
What are the White Papers?
Major-General Romeo Dallaire was the leader of the UN mission to this country to prevent an ongoing genocide.
What is Rwanda?
The War Measures Act was enacted in Canada FOUR times during our course timeline. Name THREE times it was used.
What is WWI, WWII, October Crisis, and Covid Pandemic.
In response to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO, the USSR and satellite states created the political alliance by this name. (hint: a city in Poland)
This was created in the 1950s by the US and Canada to defend North American Airspace.
What is Norad?
This epidemic was often overlooked and underrepresented by the media and governments in North America largely due to stigma that its spread was mostly amongst homosexual populations.
What is the AIDS epidemic?
After 9/11 Canada and other NATO nations entered into a conflict with what country?
What is Afghanistan?
When the Canadian constitution is 'patriated' in the 1980s under PM Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Civil Rights are encoded in this document.
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
This period was a time of Modernization and Secularization in Quebec, and made the French Language the official language of the province.
What is the Quiet Revolution?
This Espionage revelation is often seen as the starting point for the Cold War. It at least started the distrust between NATO and the Communist Block.
What is the Gouzenko Affair?
A period in the 1970s of peace and diplomacy between the US and USSR, some see it as the eventual downfall of the USSR, or just a 'softening' of cold war policies.
What is Detente?
This organization ensures that Canadian media on radio, television and in more modern times the internet is protected, and promotes Canadian content, and culture.
What is the CRTC?
Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission