The Sixties in Canada
M. Athena Palaeologu, ed.

The 1960s hosted an unprecedented degree of activist momentum. Everywhere, this decade is being examined, researched, studied and debated. Universities hold major international conferences that bring together scholars, teachers, veteran activists, and those now involved in the world-wide alternative to the globalization movement. The sheer volume of books, articles and periodicals with the purpose of analyzing this decade in any number of countries is staggering. Interestingly, however, very little has been published about the sixties in Canada. 

The Sixties in Canada is an extraordinary anthology that intends to close this gap. The essays published in this volume reflect the minefield of research material that has been brought together from a rich reservoir of sources, mostly little-known. Every possible dimension of the 1960s is analyzed, assessing the pace of exciting ideas, militant movements, and radically outspoken people, as well as the impact of this momentum on Canadian society. The sweeping range of subject material covers: the politics of law and order, youth and the culture of discontent, Black Power, local organizing and the grassroots, music and literature, environmental consciousness, the sixties and the State, the politics of university democracy, sexual liberation, nationalism and radicalism, decolonization, Red Power and culture, feminism and revolution, and "all power to the imagination." The writers range from researchers and scholars to concerned persons who are close to the subject-matter. 

Among these exceptional essayists includes: Bryan Palmer, Jonathan Thompson, Anne Hoefnagels, Pat Smart, Sean Mills, Gillian Helfield, Myrna Kostash, John Cleveland, Paul Jackson, Carrie Dickenson, Eric Morton, Barbara Goddard, Laurence Davis, Kristin Ireland, Chris Harris, Kevin Brushett and Dimitrios Roussopoulos.

Table of Contents

• Preface by Dimitri Roussopoulos
• Introduction by M. Athena Palaeogu
• Killing Me Softly by Myrna Kostash
• "Let's Not Be Cremated Equal:" The Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1959-1967 by Michael Maurice Dufresne
• The New Left Liberations: The Poetics, Praxis and Politics of Youth Radicalism by Bryan D. Palmer
• Democracy, Dissent, and the City: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Sixties Montreal by Sean Mills
• "They Smell Bad, Have Diseases and are Lazy:" RCMP Officers' Reporting on Hippies in the Late Sixties by Marcel Martel 
• "Berkeley North:" Why Simon Fraser had the Strongest 1960s Student Power Movement by John Cleveland
• Native Canadian Activism and the Development of Powwows in the 1960s by Anna Hoefnagels
• Making Shit Disturbers: The Selection and Training of the Company of Young Canadian Volunteers, 1965-1970 by Kevin Brushett
• Our True North Strong and Free: The Sixties and Transsexual Sex in Ontario by Kristin Ireland
• Queen's University History Department and the Birth of the Waffle Movement by Pat Smart
• A Time for Change: The Sixties and Cinema Direct in Quebec by Gillian Helfield 
• Canadian Black Power, Organic Intellectuals and the War of Position in Toronto, 1967-1975 by Chris Harris
• "Eight Days Before the Election:" Politicians, Cultural Industries, and Folk Art in Nova Scotia by Erin Morton 

2009; 362 pages

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