1968 in Canada

<p>The year 1968 in Canada was an extraordinary one unlike any other in its frenetic pace of activities and their consequences for the development of a new national consciousness among Canadians. </p> <p>It was a year when decisions and actions both in Canada and outside its borders were thick and contentious and whose effects were momentous and far-reaching. It saw the rise of Trudeaumania and the birth of the Parti Québécois; the articulation of the new nationalism in English Canada and an alternative vision for Indigenous rights and governance; a series of public hearings in the Royal Commission on the Status of Women; the establishment of the Canadian Radio and Television Commission nation-wide Medicare and CanLit; and a striving for both a new relationship with the United States and a more independent foreign policy everywhere else. And more. Virtually no segment of Canadian life was untouched by both the turmoil and the promise of generational change.</p> <p><i>Published in English with chapters in French.</i></p>