HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Quebec Liberal Party, Maurice Duplessis, Richard Riot
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Notes: produce handwritten, computer notes for sources along with paper. Historiography: read other accounts of same event. Election of 1960, quebec taking a different path. Liberals elected, marking the beginning of the quiet revolution. Marks a period of vast transformation in quebec, where in the eyes of francophone quebec society was decolonized. Definition: quiet revolution describes the relatively non-violent, rapid political, institutional, social, and cultural changes that occurred in quebec during the 1960s and 1970s, an attempt to reverse the process of decolonization of the majority of quebec"s population. Maurice duplessis: member of quebec legislative assembly from trois rivieres, leader of union nationale, quebec premier 1936-1939, 1944-1959, refuses federal grants to universities (1951), viciously anti- union, against welfare state, pro-big business, intensely catholic, autocratic. Protecting provincial jurisdiction by refusing education grants, seen as keeping quebecers uneducated. Worked with unions to support his agenda, cracks down on unions pushing their members agenda further than he sought proper.
