The Quiet Revolution The purpose of this paper is to analyze the aspects of The Quiet Revolution on Quebec, and how the changes implemented by Lesage made Quebec the province it is today. The Quiet Revolution was only quiet at name; it triggered many conflicts that appeared in Quebec. The province began to move away from Catholic Church with the help of nationalists, leaving Quebec reformed and quite different from how it was before the 1960’s. Before the Quiet Revolution, Quebec was majorly
Units 4-5 Reading Summary - Canadian History Unit 4- Origins of the Quiet Revolution and the Baby Boom The origins of the Quiet Revolution are said to have started on March 13th, 1955 when Montreal Canadiens fans attacked Clarence Campbell during a game against the Detroit Red Wings. It is believed that this started the revolution as it was the start of French Canadians protesting against the Catholic Church after hundreds of years of control. After being defeated in 1673, many French Canadian
overview of Maurice Richard’s humble beginnings and his French-Canadian identity. This essay will then emphasize Maurice Richard’s impact on French Canadians as the central figure in the 1955 Richard Riot, and as a potential influencer of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec in the 1950s and 1960s. Additionally, this paper will analyze Richard’s suspension and the subsequent riot as exemplifying English-French relations, especially in the National Hockey League. Overall, this essay will show that Maurice
Government, as well as citizens. Since the needs of Quebec were not being met to their full extent, they made a conscious decision to handle the matter themselves, which resulted in the beginning of the Quiet Revolution. This resulted in the Quebecois people voting the Liberal Party into power, lead by Jean Lesage, in the year 1960, which gave French Canadians a limited amount of influence in their government. During this point in time, Quebec had reached the peak at which it could hold its patience, and
change was left unattended, matters were taken into hand, thus sparking the Quiet Revolution1. The people of Quebec wanted the change that would finally unite them with English Canada. Seeing that this was a long way to come, Quebec jump-started the change in their own manner by voting the Liberal Party into power in the year 19602. The liberal party made many positive endeavours for Quebec in that era, led by Jean Lesage. The most notable of these endeavours, regard the modernization of the Quebec
this link was further depreciated primarily because of conscriptions during the First and Second World War along with the Quiet Revolution and the October Crisis. Conscription during the First and Second World War was one of the initial major causes that began the deterioration of French-English relations largely because the French had no desire to go to war. The Quiet Revolution was an effort to redefine the role of the francophone civilization inside Canada, which was an attempt at strengthening
jurisdiction. In the 1960s a "dramatic change of values and attitudes, especially toward the state, a new collective self confidence, and a new brand of Nationalism" occurred in Quebec this change was termed the quiet revolution of Quebec. According to Conway this quiet revolution occurred because of the sudden influx of people from rural to urban areas, and a increase of population during the 1940's and 1950's. This was a time when Quebec started seeking ‘special status' and wanted international
Maurice Duplessis died, this marked the beginning of the Quiet Revolution. Duplessis was the Union Nationale leader and the party had controlled Quebec for decades until shortly after Duplessis’ death, a provincial election was held where the Liberals, led by Jean Lesage, had won the vote. The Liberals started moving away from the Catholic ideologies, traditions were being shifted and a transformed society was taking over the province of Quebec. Lesage was famously quoted in 1962 “There is no doubt in my
this paper will first address the causation of the 1970 October Crisis and the origins of Quebec autonomy through separation. Going back to the election of Jean Lesage and the Quiet Revolution in 1960’s, it marked a period in which provincial autonomy would inspire nationalism. Elected under the phrase ‘It’s time for a change’, Jean Lesage would implement an attitude of high modernism that saw the secularization of industry, education and healthcare. By extension of the high modernist attitude
costal town by the name of New Carlisle, where he realized quickly that “most of the French Canadians were poorer, with smaller homes and more wretched schools, than the English Canadian families — descendants of Loyalists who had fled the American Revolution — who were the self-appointed elites of the region.” (The Canadian Encyclopedia). This epiphany was said to build resentment in him against English-Canadians for having a more prosperous life, possibly due to their status as Loyalists. René Lévesque