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Updated: 15 Jan 2018
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Created byKing's vibrissa
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Maurice Duplessis and the Great Darkness (1944-1959)Potlatch ban repealed (1951)Aboriginals gain voting rights (1960)Jean Lesage and the Quiet Revolution (maitre chez nous) (1960)Bilingualism and Biculturalism Commission formed (1963)Canada’s New Flag unveiled (1965)National Indian Brotherhood formed (1968)Official Language’s Act passed in Canada (1969)Residential School system abandoned (1969)Aboriginal Red Paper or Citizen Plus – rebuttal to White Paper (1969)FLQ crisis (Laporte and Cross kidnapped, Trudeau invokes War Measure’s Act) (1970)Berger Commission (1977)Bill 101 passed in Quebec (1977)1980 Quebec Referendum
– Sovereignty-Association proposed
by Rene Levesque and the Parti QuebecoisAssembly of First Nations formed (1980)Trudeau patriates the Constitution –
Notwithstanding Clause,
Kitchen Compromise (1982)The Meech Lake Accord dies (1990)The Oka Confrontation (1990)The Charlottetown Accord is voted-down in a referendum (1992)1995 Quebec Referendum and the Bloc QuebecoisRuling on the Delgamuukw Case (1998)Creation of Nunavut (1999)Nisga’a Treaty receives Royal Assent (2000)
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