Baby Boom Teenagers in Canada

HSB4U Chapter 5

Day 3

“My Generation”

• Song and album by The Who, 1965– Lyrics on page 156

My Generation, Album. (2014, Oct). Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Generation_%28album%29

Conservative Parents

• Great Depression

• WWII

Go Canada!

CBC/Radio Canada. (2011). 1960-1969. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/history/1960s_details.shtml

American Culture

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library. (2009, Dec. 16). The psychedelic 60s: literary tradition and social change. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/posters.html

Woodstock poster, 1969.

1968 poster.

Beatlemania Hits Toronto, 1964

Zoomer Mag. (2011, Dec. 8). John Lennon: our favourite Canadian moments. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.zoomermag.com/people/john-lennon-our-favourite-canadian-moments/33441

Rock n Roll

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones at a concert in Toronto in 1965.

CBC TV 75th Anniversary. (2011, Aug. 16). Image of the day: satisfaction. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/75/2011/08/image-of-the-day-satisfaction.html

Music Hop

1966 ad for CBC tv show, Music Hop, featuring live music. Alex Trebek was the first host.

CBC TV 75th anniversary. (2011, July 28). Lively music for the teen set. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/75/2011/07/lively-music-for-the-teen-set.html

Rock n Roll

The Doors on CBC program Rock Scene Like It Is, filmed at the O’Keefe Centre in Toronto in 1967.

CBC TV 75th Anniversary. (2011, July 5). Rocking the rock scene. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/75/2011/07/rocking-the-rock-scene.html

Counterculture

• Defined on page 156– Of course not every baby boomer teenager

expressed aspects of counterculture– Not everyone was into sex, drugs and rock

and roll

Hippies in Yorkville

• CBC Digital Archives. (N.d.). Yorkville: Hippie haven. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/youth/hippie-society-the-youth-rebellion/yorkville-hippie-haven.html

Story from 1967

Political Activism

Martin Luther King, Jr., on the CBC program Sunday, 1967. His Massey Lectures, Conscience for Change, also aired on the CBC in 1967.

CBC TV 75th Anniversary. (2011, Aug. 15). Image of the day: conscience for change. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/75/2011/08/image-of-the-day.html

Civil Rights Movement

This Hour Has Seven Days, 1965. Civil rights leader debates with KKK Grand Dragon.

CBC TV 75th anniversary. (2011, July 23 ). Image of the day: taking on the grand dragon. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/75/2011/07/image-of-the-day-taking-on-the-grand-dragon.html

Canada and Vietnam War

• 30 000 Canadians volunteered to fight as part of the US military

• 30 000 “draft dodgers” became Canadians

CBC Radio - Rewind. (2011, April 15). Canada’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/rewind/episode/2011/04/15/canadas-involvement-in-the-vietnam-war/

Anti-War Protests

Anti-Vietnam War activist Claire Culhane, 1969 at a Montreal protest.

McMaster University Libraries. (N.d.). Claire Culhane: Canadian peace activist and humanitarian. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/case-study/claire-culhane-canadian-peace-activist-and-humanitarian

Student Activism

McMaster University Libraries. (N.d.). The Vietnam War: popular protest comes of age. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/canadian-american-committee-end-vietnam-war-leaflet-20-january-1969

Canadian-American Committee to End the Vietnam War poster, 1969, Toronto.

Pamphlet by Joe Young, 1969.

Draft DodgersLove In, Queen’s Park, Toronto. Booth of Union of American Exiles.

John F. Philipps Photography. (N.d.). Draft dodgers and deserters from the war in Vietnam, 1967-1974. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://johnphillipsphotography.com/Baldwin_St/Dodgers/index.html

Protest at US Consulate in Toronto.

“Ohio”

• 1970 song performed by CSNY and written by Neil Young

• written in response to Kent State University shooting where 4 young anti-Vietnam war protesters were shot and killed by National Guardsmen

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkg-bzTHeAk

Red Power

CBC Digital Archives. (N.d.). Our Native Land: American Indian Movement shakes up Canada. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/archives/discover/programs/o/our-native-land-1/american-indian-movement-shakes-up-canada.html

Just Society for Aboriginal People, 1965

Sexual Revolution

Definition on page 159

Your Freedoms Related to Sexuality or Gender

Sexual Revolution

Model Twiggy in mini-dress, London, 1967.

Kazakina, K. (2010, Sept. 13). At fashion week, hemlines are up and down, just like markets. Bloomberg. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-13/at-fashion-week-hemlines-are-up-and-down-just-like-the-markets.html

Second Wave Feminism

The famous book by Boston Women’s Health Collective first appeared as a pamphlet in 1969, then went through nine editions, selling four million copies.

CBC Books. (2011, Oct. 31). Our Bodies, Ourselves; 40 years later. CBC Books. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/books/2011/10/our-bodies-ourselves-40-years-later.html

First wave was late 19th century to early 20th century when women got the right to vote. Second wave was more about social, economic and other forms of equality.

Women’s Rights Protest, York University, 1970

Fawcett, B. (2009, June 19). Canada’s 1960s: book review. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/article1179578.ece

Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada

CBC Radio. (2012, March 8.) International Women’s Day. Rewind. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/rewind/sirius/2012/03/08/international-womens-day/;

Prime Minister Pearson announced the commission in 1967 and it reported in 1970. It was led by Florence Bird.

Royal Commission’s Key Findings

• Women should be free to choose whether or not to take employment outside their homes.

• The care of children is a responsibility to be shared by the mother, father, and society.

• Society has a responsibility for women because of pregnancy and childbirth.

• In certain areas women will, for an interim period, require special treatment to overcome the adverse effects of discriminatory practices.

Royal Commission quoted in Applied History Group – University of Calgary. (1997). Calgary and Southern Alberta: time of change, 1960s to present; Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Retrieved from http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/calgary/royalcom.html

Birth Control

• http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2010/05/07/con-pill-fifty.html– Canadian Press. (2010, May 10). Birth control pill turns 50.

Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2010/05/07/con-pill-fifty.html

• 1964 CBC Report: – http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/health/reproductive-

issues/the-birth-control-pill/the-pill-meant-women-could.html• 2001 CBC report on 40th anniversary:

– http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/health/reproductive-issues/the-birth-control-pill/the-pill-40-years-later.html

– http://article.wn.com/view/2010/05/07/The_pill_50_years_of_birth_control_changed_womens_lives/ (University of Minnesota, 2011)

Sexual Revolution Activity

• Main Inquiry Questions: – What impact did the Sexual Revolution have on baby

boomers, and what impact did they, the boomers, in turn have on society?

• 7 groups each with its own focus:– 1. Statistics on Women in the Workforce– 2. Second Wave Feminism Matching– 3. Timeline of Second Wave Feminism– 4. Moments in the History of Birth Control– 5. Marriages in Canada– 6. Average Age at First Marriage by Gender– 7. Births in Canada

You may also want to look at page 159 in the textbook.

HW

• Read 156 to 159 (skip 158).

• Answer Questions 2, 3 and 4 on page 160.

– For question 2 you might want to watch the Hippies in Yorkville video on the PPT slide.