1960's

Linda’s Diary

1969

Dear Diary,

I haven’t written in a long time! There is a lot of stuff to tell you.

I’ll start with the political stuff. In the past 9 years we have had three different Prime Ministers. Well the one who was the prime minister when the 1960’s starts is John Diefenbaker he was Progressive Conservative, he was the prime minister from 1957 to 1963. After him we got Lester Pearson and he was Liberal, he was prime minister from 1963 to 1968. And the one who is the prime minister now is Pierre Elliot Trudeau and he is Liberal too, he was been the prime minister since 1968.

The cold war spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962. Last year, Eastern Bloc member Czechoslovakia and other War Pact members, crushed the reforms. This year the détente period begun.

After the 50’s, we saw another great change in popular music. We were now “twisting’ to the music when Chubby Checkers taught us how to do the Twist. There is also a group of music that is really popular they are call Beatles. Also there are more female groups. Some of the songs I listen to are: Stay; Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs, I Want to be wanted; Brenda Lee, The twist; Chubby Checkers.

Also the fashion changed for the past nine years, for example now women wear Bell Bottoms, Mini-skirts, and go-go boots. There is a group of people who are call Hippies and they made their own fashion; psychedelic colors, tie-dyed- t-shirts, love beads and the peace sign.

They have also made new slang's, I don’t know all of them but some of the ones that I know are: Bad ass(A tough guy), Blast (A great time),Bread(money) , Zits( Pimples).

One of the important things that happened in Canada in this time was that we got the maple leaf flag.Also in April 24 Television station CBWFT signed on for the first time as Radio-Canada Winnipeg. Also in December 17 Quebec became the last province to agree to the National Health Act.

These are only some of the things that happened on the past nine years in Canada, but there is a lot more stuff that happened. Right now I don’t have much time but next time I will try to write you more.

I will keep in touch with you,

Linda