Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canada thus won its freedom without rebellion, or without major national heroes. Perhaps it was good (or bad) luck. Perhaps it was more, for after all, character is fate. In the 18th century, as Historian Ramsay Cook points out, English-speaking Canadian settlers had rejected the American Revolution, just as 13 years later, in 1789, French-speaking settlers rejected the French Revolution. As a result, Canada's 1867 charter contained little thought of revolutionary fervor or political ideology. In contrast to the American Declaration of Independence, with its ringing "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," Canada...
...World. With the English conquest of a land that French explorers and Catholic missionaries had opened up, they turned fiercely inward to survive as a minority on a vast English-speaking continent. Ill-educated, church-dominated, cut off by language and often by prejudice from improving themselves, the French Canadians grew ever more provincial. Only after World War II did the "quiet revolution" of the French Canadians take form, demanding better schools and opportunity to share equally in the country's growth. In the early 1960's French separatism, including cells of bearded conspiratorial terrorists, was a major...
Pearson himself has admitted that U.S. economic influence in Canada is partly due to the passivity of Canadian investors. "They might go into the wilderness, cut down trees, break the land, and move over mountains, but if they made $100 in five years, damned if they'd put it in anything but gilt-edge securities." He half jokes that the U.S. has done a lot for Canadian unity because anti-Americanism, at least on the surface, "is one bond between us all." Yet the fact that Americans and Canadians are so much alike is disconcerting...
...demonstrate its independence from the U.S. Despite close cooperation in countless other respects, Ottawa has sided with De Gaulle against Washington on NATO's removal from France, and notably disapproves of U.S. policy in Viet Nam. But elsewhere the "little brother" complex is strengthened by the limitations of Canadian culture. Canada has produced no artists or writers of truly international rank. The only Canadian authors who have achieved renown in the U.S. are the late humorist Stephen Leacock and, currently, Prophet Marshall McLuhan. One difficulty is that Canadian artists, once they begin to succeed, tend to leave their country...
...Canadians today are more than willing to pay the piper. There are innumerable signs that Canada is coming of age in the arts. Much of the awakening is due to vigorous Government participation in the arts, such as Canada's imaginative National Film Board, which has put Canadian documentaries on the world cinema map. But what Canada has wrought physically remains its most stunning reason for pride. Montreal, Canada's largest metropolis, with 2,400,000 people, is agleam with new office buildings, hotels, theaters, boutiques (one soon to be opened by Mary Quant) and more miniskirts...