Chapter Twenty
Contemporary
Canada
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Wilfrid Laurier
took Canada into
the twentieth
century, and Jean
Chrétien took
Canada into the
twenty-first.
Canadian Press/Tom Hanson.
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Canadian
peacekeepers, part
of the large
Canadian force in
Bosnia in 1998.
Department of National Defence.
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Canadian soldiers carry the
bodies of two fellow
soldiers killed in
Afghanistan into a C130 Hercules aircraft for
repatriation to Canada.
Department of National Defence, Combat Camera, AR2006-G017-0010
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Premier Robert Grimes
and GovernorGeneral Adrienne
Clarkson with the
document that
renames Canada’s
easternmost
province,
Newfoundland and
Labrador, December
200l.
CP Picture Archive/Fred Chartrand.
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Distribution of
Canada’s
Population by
Province and
Territory, 2001.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2001 Census, “Population and Dwelling Counts.”
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Quebec in 2002 extended
full parental rights to
homosexual couples in
Quebec. Same-sex
couples also gained the
same status and
obligations of
heterosexual married
couples when they
entered into a civil
union. Lesbians react as
the Quebec National
Assembly passes the
law.
Canadian Press, the shot appears in Robert J. Brym, John Lie, and Steven Rytina, Sociology.
Your Compass for a New World, 2nd Canadian Edition (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2007), 474.
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Canadian women’s
hockey team, with team
coach Danièle
Sauvageau (in the
centre) just after
winning the women’s
gold medal at the Salt
Lake City Olympics.
Canadian Press/COA/Mike Redwood.
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Executive Producer
Mark Starowicz just
prior to filming the
sequence on the Battle
of the Plains of
Abraham, in the
television series
Canada: A People’s
History.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Alanis Morissette.
CP Picture Archive/Andrew Wallace.
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Wind power is an
excellent source
of alternative
energy. Here are
generators at
work on the
Cowley Ridge
Wind Farm
project near the
southern Alberta
town of Cowley.
CP Photo/ Larry MacDougall/ Photo 1825053.jpg
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Mining trucks with loads of
oil-laden sand at the
Albian Sands oil sands
project in Fort McMurray,
Alberta, August 5, 2005.
CP Photo/ Larry MacDougal.
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