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Chapter NineteenChapter Nineteen

Canada in the Canada in the 1970s and 1970s and 1980s: 1980s: Constitution Constitution and Free and Free TradeTrade

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Prime Minister PierreTrudeau and Alberta

Premier Peter Lougheed, 1973, at

the Western Economic

Opportunities Conference in Calgary. Appear-ances

can be deceiving — despite the cordiality

evident in this photograph, animosity existed between

the two leaders over the federal government’s

pricing of Alberta oil and gas.

Herald Collection/Glenbow Archives, Calgary, Canada/NA-2864-23502.

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The signing of the Canadian Constitution by

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, April 1982. Prime Minister Trudeau

looks on. The agreement ended the British

Parliament’s power to amend the British

North America (BNA) Act, and also established, for

the first time, a Canadian Charter of

Rights and Freedoms.

Bob Cooper/National Archives of Canada/PA-140705.

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Prime Minister Brian Mulroney greets

American President Ronald Reagan

on his arrival for the “Shamrock Summit” at

Quebec City, 1985, during which both

leaders made much of their Irish

origins. Mulroney hailed the summit as the

inauguration of a new positive era in Canadian

–American relations.

CP Picture Archive (Paul Chiasson).

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Gay community activists in Toronto, protesting a speech by right-wing family

values advocate Anita Bryant, 1978.

Archives of Ontario/C193-3-0-3167, 78285-20, AO5290.

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Editorial staff of Chatelaine, 1972.

Traditionally a homemaker’s

magazine, Chatelaine switched

its emphasis to women’s issues in

the 1970s.

Courtesy of Chatelaine © Maclean Hunter Publishing Ltd.

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New religious groups in Canada. A photo

taken on Ste.Catherine Street,

Montreal, May 1, 1993. Religion has become both more

personal and highly diversified.

Sociologist Reginald Bibby claims that

Canadians now want “religion ‘à la carte,’

preferring to pick and choose … from

religious smorgasbords.”

Photography by Michel Brunelle..

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CP Picture Archive/ Frank Lennon.

The most famous winning goal in

Canadian hockey history, scored by Paul Henderson in

Moscow in the final game of the 1972

Russia-Canada hockey series, with just 34 seconds of

play remaining. On the 25th anniversary

of the goal in 1997 Paul appeared on a

postage stamp issued by Canada

Post.

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Courtesy of Covenant House, Toronto.

Covenant House poster, “Most Kids

Are Picky Eaters.”.