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I believe the 1976 Immigration Act was the most significant contribution towards the development of Canada. I believe this because the immigration showed the rest of the world how willing Canada was to take in immigrants as well as refugees. This shows Canada as a significant part of the world and not a minor, nearly powerless country. Also taking in all the immigrants diversifies Canada even further. This diversification allows Canada to boast a multicultural population, which many countries couldn't compare to during that time period.

Cold War

NATO

Flag of NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 and was Canada's first peacetime military alliance. NATO placed the nation in a defensive security arrangement with the United States, Britain and the nations of western Europe. During the Cold War, NATO provided a frontline deterrence against the Soviet Union and its satellite states.

United Nations

The UN Logo

The United Nations was established on October 24, 1945. The United Nations was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century. The UN aims to 'save succeeding generations from the scourge of war'.

Cuban Missile Crisis

A comic made depicting Kennedys and Khrushchev's struggle for power.

In 1962, the Soviets stationed nuclear missiles in Cuba, which posed a threat to the United States and Canada and brought the world to the edge of nuclear war.Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's hesitant response to the crisis enraged U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and fuelled already difficult relations between Canada and the U.S. in the 1960s. After 13 tense days, the Soviet Premier agreed to dismantle their missiles in return for the USA's promise to not invade Cuba.

Which event or development during this period made the most significant contribution to the development of identities in Canada?

Just Society/Indigenous Identity

Sixties Scoop

The Sixties Scoop was the removal of Indigenous children from their homes, communities and families through the 1960s, and later their adoption into non-Indigenous families across the United States and Canada. This experience left many children with a misguided sense of cultural identity. This physical and emotional separation from their biological families continues to affect adult Indigenous people as well as whole Indigenous communities to this day.

Ipperwash Crisis

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James Bay Project

Culturalism/Multiculturalism

1976 Immigration Act

The Immigration Act of 1976 represented a major shift in Canadian immigration legislation. It was the first immigration act that clearly changed the fundamental objectives of Canadian immigration policy, and that defined refugees as a distinct class of immigrants and impose a responsibility on the government to ensure the future of immigration.

Murdoch Case

The Murdoch Case was a Supreme Court of Canada case in 1975 which involved matrimonial property law. Before this case ruling, wives were only allowed to own property by having it placed in their name.

Massey Commission

In 1951 the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences issued a report warning that Canadian culture had become invisible, due to the help of the United States, owing to years of American invasion by film and radio. Henceforth, the government declared that Canada’s mass media would be required to encourage Canadian content in forms such as books, television programs, magazines, and other locally made cultural products.

French/Quebec Nationalism

October Crisis

Men revolting

The October Crisis began 5 October 1970 with the kidnapping of James Cross, the British trade commissioner in Montréal, by members of the FLQ. It rapidly progressed into the most serious terrorist act carried out on Canadian soil. The crisis shook the career of Premier Robert Bourassa, who requested federal help. This help would lead to the only use of the War Measures Act during 'peacetime' in history.

Expo 67

Expo 67 was the focal point of Canada's centennial celebrations in 1967. Senator Mark Drouin of Québec first developed the idea of a world exhibition in Montréal to serve as a main point for Canada's celebrations of its 100th birthday.

Quiet Revolution

The Quiet Revolution was a time of rapid change experienced in Québec during the 1960s. Although Québec was a highly industrialized and urban society in the 60s, the Union Nationale party, became increasingly insistent on their outdated traditional values. This caused disarray and led to the Quiet Revolution.

National Identity

Rwanda Genocide

In 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin. These events were orginally caused due to the murder of the Rwandan president.

Canada Pension Plan

The CPP was created through federal-provincial negotiations in 1965, as a solution to the growing poverty rates among retired Canadians. Its target at the time was to cover at least 25 percent of a worker’s average lifetime earnings, up to a limit on earnings covered.

Newfoundland joins Canada

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