Quiet Revolution

The next thematic area looks at Quebec, and Francophones in the country as a whole. 

This is the jersey and hockey stick of Maurice "Rocket" Richard, one of the greatest players in NHL history, and a legend in the Montreal Canadiens. He was tough, skilled, and a hero to millions in the 1940s and 50s.

The Quiet Revolution was a period starting in 1960 in which Quebec fundamentally changed in its own nature and how it dealt with the country as a whole. 

This included big projects, like the hydro projects that have made Hydro Quebec what it is today.

French-Canadian music took on a life of its own as well.

In 1967, a colossal prick came for a state visit and set off a political firestorm. Charles de Gaulle, the president of France, legend in his own mind, and egomaniac who weaseled his way into power after World War Two came on a state tour. De Gaulle was the biggest egomaniac in history up to that time, though he has since been surpassed by a certain Orange Shitgibbon. 

He gave a speech from a balcony at Montreal's city hall, bellowing the words "vive le Quebec libre". In doing so, he fanned the flames of sovereigntists, insulted the actions of Canadian veterans who had fought and died to free his country during the Second World War, and insulted the country as a whole. I still hold that nothing he did during that war couldn't have been done by another French officer, and that history might have been better served if some lucky German sniper had taken him out in 1940. I'd use more colourful language, but the Sisters of Little Or No Mercy are already mad enough at me.

During the 1960s, terrorism and extremism began to grow in Quebec, with the growth of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ). They began carrying out a series of bombing attacks.

This is the armor and robot vehicle of a police bomb squad member of that period, not so different from the current counterpart.

The October Crisis of 1970 began when the FLQ kidnapped Pierre Laporte, a provincial cabinet minister, and James Cross, a British diplomat.

Prime Minister Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act as a response.

Cross was eventually freed from captivity, while Laporte was murdered.