Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadian working in the U.S. I read "Canada Discovers Itself" with interest, enjoyment and inner laughter, for the piece portrays the feelings of most Canadians factually, humorously, and with candor. Expo 67 will accomplish in one giant stride what Canada has struggled to accomplish for so long: to become a fully recognized country on her own merits as a power in the world's arena...
There is noticeably less self-denigration and more self-confidence among Canadians today, and not only in the material field. There is a feeling that Canada's way of handling its problems, both internal and with the U.S., could serve as a model for many lesser-endowed countries struggling toward maturity. "We are always apologizing for not having had any wars or revolutions," says Toronto's Father Michael Quealey. "This is too bad only if history is going to be a replacement for Batman. Creative fumbling is always preferable to fighting. We have made compromise work." That thought...
...countdown to Canada's Expo 67, it was 878 days since the morning in 1964 when the first dump truck dropped the first load of fill into the St. Lawrence River off Montreal. All that seemed a long time ago as a 19-year-old Canadian Army cadet last week sprinted into the Place des Nations amphitheater and, before 5,250 invited dignitaries, handed a blazing torch to Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Grinning, Pearson tipped the flame toward a gas jet in a canister, and a fire flickered up-to burn night and day during the six-month life...
...long yearned to prove that their country is considerably more than the U.S.'s backwoods halfbrother. "Anyone who says we aren't a spectacular people should see this," said Pearson. "We are witness today to the fulfillment of one of the most daring acts of faith in Canadian enterprise and ability ever undertaken...
...Glass. To make its deadline, Expo hired its own expert to speed works through customs, assigned four officials and two armed guards to meet each art work. Heated trucks were on stand-by duty 24 hours a day to transport the pieces to the Expo site because, as the Canadian advisory committee's general secretary, Jean Jacques Besner, says, "We could not risk allowing any of these lovely ladies by Delacroix to catch cold...