Permanent year factsheet

Canada in 1970

Historical records for Canada in 1970, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

6Records
6Events
4Named people
1Places
3Categories

Historical records

March

11 March 1970Deja VuNeil Young

Arts / Popular Music

Releases Deja Vu with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young during the supergroup's peak period.

September

19 September 1970After the Gold RushNeil Young

Arts / Popular Music

Releases After the Gold Rush, combining acoustic songs, electric rock and environmental imagery.

October

16 October 1970October CrisisPierre Elliott Trudeau

Ottawa · Government / Government of Canada

Invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.

Other Events

1970From Cliche to ArchetypeHerbert Marshall McLuhan

Humanities / Social Science

Publication of "From Cliche to Archetype"

1970OhioNeil Young

Arts / Popular Music

Writes Ohio after the Kent State shootings, turning protest into one of CSNY's defining singles.

1970The Dialectic of SexShulamith Firestone

Humanities / Social Science

Publication of "The Dialectic of Sex"

Names involved

Herbert Marshall McLuhanNeil YoungPierre Elliott TrudeauShulamith Firestone

Places involved

Ottawa

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.