Century in Review: 1900-1999
1940-1949
In 1940, Quebec gives women the right to vote. Anyway, among the things Canadian Troops did during the war, are the Dieppe raid of 1942, which failed and the more famous 1944 D-day operation on Juno Beach. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, in 1945, Canada joins the United Nations. In 1947, the Supreme Court of Canada is created and it replaces a British Privy Council. Same year all people of Chinese, Japanese or of Southeast Asian origin get the right to vote. There has been much discrimination against them during the war. Oh, and while were at it, in 1949, the Inuit got the right to vote. So, minority groups got the right to vote from the period of the 1920s to the 1940s, about. Louis St. Laurent succeeds Mackenzie in 1948. He wins the election in 1949. Newfoundland becomes province number 10 sometime in 1949. Canada becomes part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, sometime in 1949.
1950-1959
In 1952, Canada gets a new monarch when Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and of Canada is crowned. She succeeds her father George VI. Is that it? Well in 1958, the famous Avro Arrow, the fastest plane at the time, first flew. The program was cancelled in 1959 after pressure from the American Defence Ministry.
1960-1969
Among the interesting things that happened in Canada in the Sixties is the last legal hanging in 1962. AVRO is sold the same year. Too bad, eh? It is during the Sixties that the Revolution Tranquille starts in Quebec, when people the influence of the Catholic Church reduces rapidly. Nationalism in Quebec starts to be more than, well...nothing really. Canada helped Americans during the War in Vietnam in 1963. About 10,000 Canadians join the US army. In 1967, Exposition '67 opens in Montreal celebrating the centennial of Confederation. Charles de Gaulle says "Vive le Quebec Libre" at expo '67 forcing him to return to France very quickly afterwards. In 1968, Rene Levesque founds the Parti Quebecois and Trudeau is elected for the first time as Prime Minister of Canada. French and English are both official languages in Canada as of 1969.
1970-1979
Quebec Liberal leader Robert Bourassa wins an election, when he opposes Quebec nationalism in 1970. The Front de Liberation du Quebec kidnap Labour Minister Pierre Laporte (who later is murdered) and British Diplomat James Cross. Prime Minister Trudeau is forced to instate the War Measures
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