Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, thinly populated Canada was held together by little more than the railway tracks that joined British Columbia to the prairie provinces and eastern industrial towns. During the '50s, vital east-west links were added. In 1958 the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (TIME, Dec. 14) completed the longest microwave relay network (4,000 miles) in the world. The Trans-Canada pipeline, finished in 1958, put Ontario and Quebec markets within reach of the rich, new Alberta gasfields. By the end of 1960, the last scattered 130 miles of the country's first transcontinental highway - which was only...
...Homemade Seaway. One conse quence of this unity is a Canadian pride in such symbols of well-being as the St. Lawrence Seaway (TIME, Dec. 7). Canadians seldom forget that they put up $340 million of the $475 million cost, regard it as a project of their own. "In the '30s," says one government expert, "it would have been unthinkable for Canada to pro pose to go ahead with the Seaway on its own. In the '50s, we were quite willing to do so, and I think most of us now regret that...
...Exciting '60-." Although high wages make Canadian goods hard to export and new trading blocs, e.g., the Common Mar ket, may force Canada to rely even more heavily on U.S. buying, the richness of Canadian resources ensures long-range prosperity. By 1970, one government commission estimated Canada should have a population of 21 million and a gross national product of $50 billion v. 1959's $34.5 billion. The "surprising '50s," pre dicts Banker Ashforth, "should be succeeded by the exciting...