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Trudeau Years
1968 ΓÇó Skier Nancy Greene wins Olympic gold at Grenoble and second world title
ΓÇó 300 arrested, 130 injured during St-Jean Baptiste Day riots
ΓÇó National medical care inaugurated
• Parti Québécois formed, René Lévesque leader
1969 • Natives and Métis protest Manitoba Hydro’s Churchill River diversion
ΓÇó Sir George Williams University students destroy computer centre
ΓÇó CBC bans tobacco advertising
ΓÇó U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong walks on moon
• Montréal Expos play first game
ΓÇó Official Languages Act passed
1970 ΓÇó FLQ Crisis, War Measures Act imposed
ΓÇó Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
1971 ΓÇó Trudeau marries Margaret Sinclair
1972 ΓÇó Paul Henderson scores winning goal in Canada-USSR hockey series
ΓÇó Canada recognizes Communist China
ΓÇó National Action Committee on the Status of Women formed
ΓÇó Joey Smallwood resigns as premier of Newfoundland
ΓÇó Margaret Atwood publishes Surfacing
1975 ΓÇó CN Tower, world's tallest free-standing structure, completed in Toronto
ΓÇó "O Canada" officially adopted as national anthem
1976 • Montréal Olympics
• Parti Québécois elected
1977 • Québec Language Law, Bill 101, passes
ΓÇó Highway signs go metric
ΓÇó Pierre and Margaret Trudeau separate
ΓÇó Two hundred mile limit set around Atlantic coastal fisheries
ΓÇó Dempster Highway completed, first all-weather road in North America across the Arctic Circle
1978 ΓÇó Edmonton Eskimos win the first of five straight Grey Cup games
1979 • James Bay Power Project completed, Québec
ΓÇó Canadian Parliament abolishes capital punishment
1980 • Québec voters reject separation in referendum
ΓÇó Terry Fox stops ΓÇ£Marathon of HopeΓÇ¥