HIST-261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Indian Register, Canadian Identity, Britishness
10 Aug 2020
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The sixties: protest, reform, and a changing national. This characterization tends to understate the changes taking place in the 1950s while highlighting those of the 1960s. There is no denying, however, that politically and culturally canada was a different country at the end of the 1960s than it was at the beginning of the decade. From 1958 to 1968, canadian politics was shaped by the contest between diefenbaker and. Pearson, with diefenbaker and the conservatives in power for the first half of the period, and. Pearson and the liberals forming minority governments during the second half of the period. While many canadians at the time became tired of the constant political bickering between these two leaders, diefenbaker"s and pearson"s legacies are impressive. These included the adoption of a canadian bill of rights under diefenbaker, and in keeping with this, the enfranchisement of status indians in 1960 for the first time in canadian history,
