People Flashcards
(10 cards)
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Joey Smallwood
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- Canadian publisher/radio personality - urged Newfoundland and Labrador to join Canada in confederation
- he succeeded and became their premier
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Who was John Humphrey?
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Montreal lawyer who set up Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 1946 for UN
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Maurice Duplessis
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- premier of quebec
- he prevented federal gov. involvement with Quebec to expand resources
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René Lévesque
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- minister of Natural Resources
- former politician
- formed Parti quebecois
- proposed sovereignty(independent country) for Quebec
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Marshall McLuhan
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- 1960, studied how media affected us
- print media (books, newspapers) make us think a certain way, electronic media (internet, computers) changed that way
- long distance barriers removed in communication
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Canadian Industrialists:
Kenneth Colin Irving
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Irving invested in New Brunswick, he helped develop industries such as pulp, paper, etc.
He used his profits to buy businesses his relied on (300 companies)
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Frank Stronach - industrialist
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1957 he opened an automative parts business, it was a bug success
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John Diefenbaker
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- PM of Canada in 1958
- 1st of non french or british descent, german
- because of that he brought Chinese-Canadian, Ukrainian, first nations, and women members into parliament
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Lester Pearson
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- Leader of liberals, PM in 1963
- helped create UNEF
- received nobel peace prize in 1957
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Alice munro
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Canadian Short story writer
