Today's notes!

• Chapter 14 notes
  
• - Postwar immigration & baby boom resulted in need for housing: Suburbs were created. Communities outside downtown core made mostly of houses, chance for ppl to own land.
  
• - Central Mortgage and Housing Corp. formed by gov’t in 1946 to lend ppl $ to own houses.
  
• Tech Chg
  
• - Cars chg – Bigger is better, V8 long-wheelbase cars.
  
• - TV came in late 1950s to Cda., black and white. Chg’d eating & socializing habits – TV dinners, not going to church on Sundays, what children watched also became important. Cdn TV shows: The Front Page Challenge, Hockey Night in Canada,
  
• - Jonas Salk created polio vaccine. DNA was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick, Big Bang Theory was first posted.
  
• - Plastic became major material for manufacturing at this time.
  
• - Space Race b/w USA & USSR began 1958 – Race to see who would be first to get man into space.
  
• - ICBMs invented in 1959, and the related plastic became used in consumer goods.
  
• - Have vs Have Not Provinces: Regional Disparity: Some provinces had lots of resources & became rich, some did not have so many resources – i.e. Ontario vs. P.E.I.
  
• - Fewer resources meant fewer jobs meant fewer people would stay in places like P.E.I., so econ would suffer, and fewer jobs – Vicious cycle. Equalization Payments, money given by “have” provinces to “have not” provinces to spread wealth around.
  
• - Department of Regional Economic Expansion (DREE) was responsible for giving grants for new factories, job training, etc.
  
• - Construction of St. Lawrence Seaway, widening of St. Lawrence river to allow bigger ships in and hydroelectric power. Opened 26 June 1959.  Also Trans-Cda Pipeline to carry gas/oil from Alberta across Cda. Company that made TCP was mostly American. Gov’t lent $118 million to company.
  
• - 1958 John Diefenbaker and Conservatives won landslide victory, however by 1962 unemployment was high again, so in 1963 Pearson was elected to gov’t.
  
• Social Support
  
• - As countries grew wealthier post-WWII,they gave more to their citizens in the form of healthcare, support for children, unemployed, elderly, and social services. These countries became known as welfare states
  
• - Why? Prosperity + baby boom= increased need for services. After the Depression and WWII, people were convinced that gov’t owed them a basic standard of living – Help from gov’t was a right, not a privilege.
  
• - Fear in Cda that unemp. Rates would be high post war. 800k veterans returned looking for jobs, and war industries were shutting down.  Ppl wanted gov’t to take care of them.
  
• - Many argue that while Canada’s “Social Safety Net” is a worldwide model, it still lets a lot of people down, esp. those living below poverty line.
  
• Labour Movement
  
• 1950s numerous strikes for higher wages improved working conditions – i.e. 1949 asbestos’ miners strike, 1955 Ford and GM strikes
  
• 1956 Trade and Labour Congress and Canadian Congress of Labour merged into Canadian Labour Congress, CLC worked with CCF to create New Democratic Party – Stood for free education, full employment, Cdn ctrl of economy and natural resources.
  
• Human and Civil Rights
  
• - Racial Discrimination Act 1944 – Couldn’t broadcast or publish anything that was racist.
  
• - Fair Employment Practices Act (1951)
  
• - Diefenbaker created Canadian Bill of Rights, which allowed certain rights by law – Freedom of speech, assembly, association, religion, and press. Also, right to equal treatment before law (Right to fair trial, legal counsel, and protection against unfair imprisonment)
  
• - Ontario Human Rights Code 1962 spurred by CBR, created Ontario Human Rights Commission, a place to enforce the Ont. HR Code. Became a model for other provinces.
  
• Take notes pg 357-60