CRI 550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ryerson Press, Canada Council, Academic Publishing
2 Apr 2016
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Massey commission advocated for the federal funding of a wide range of cultural aciviies. Naional library of canada (library and archives canada), the creaion of the canada council for the arts, federal aid for universiies, conservaion of canada"s historic places. First major steps to nurture, preserve and promote canadian culture. Use of propaganda and cultural insituions in germany and soviet union during second world. Call for government support of art and culture as a way to protect democracy. Growing concern over the anemic state of canadian culture and the pervasive inluence of. Increasing military and economic associaion with the us in the post war period led to fears of coninentalism (closer ies, trade links with the us) St- laurent asked u of t chancellor vincent massey to lead the royal commission on the. Held 114 public meeings across canada in 16 ciies and heard from 1200 witnesses.
