EDEE 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Maurice Duplessis, October Crisis, Quiet Revolution
6 Feb 2018
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Quebec"s quiet revolution: the duplessis years, the reforms of the 1960s, flq crisis, duplessis years (1936-39, 1944-59) Religion: roman catholic church was extremely influential in quebec. Influenced household decisions: ran the education system, controlled hospitals, institutions, unions, etc, valued traditional way of life, protestant church in quebec and canada was more progressive. Duplessis was asked why he was not doing anything to develop education system- did not want to intervene in what he believed to be the church"s role. 90% of province attended catholic school, 10% protestant (4% protestant, rest non-catholic). 1960 - very religious, 1970s very secular. (a long process). Up until 1960s, there were very strict rules. For example, before buses street cars // ran mostly in city, and could not run on sunday. Churches, alternatively, were in walking distance as opposed to movies/bars. Duplessis and the union nationale (un) - 1936 - 1939 and 1944-59. He was not a separatist but wanted no canadian influence on quebec.
