I remember:

Trudeaumania-- Canada's sauve Prime Minister when he was a bachelor, had screaming women meeting him, rumours who he was dating, etc.

When Canada celebrated its centennial as a country in 1967, the children in our school were taught the theme song, there were sport activities which we were given special 100th birthday ribbons

When Neil Armstrong planted his foot on the moon in 1969. I stayed up to watch tv at approx. 1:00 am.


When Paul Henderson scored the winning goal for 1972 Canada-Russia hockey games. Our entire school was allowed to watch this in the gym. OUr cheering could have lifted off the school roof.

The reaction of Canadians to the Vietnamese boat refugees.. there was furor in the press across Canada, both wanting to welcome the people, but also some who didn't want them..more foreign faces..

When the Berlin Wall was pulled down peacefully.

The headiness of getting onto the Internet from home computer --approx. 1992.

The first computer I requested for my dept. I did have to submit a business proposal for hardward & for software. It was a super big deal, since it was the 2nd computer granted for a dept. for a govn't agency I worked for. This was 1988. I used DOS commands, it was so easy to solve operating systems problems. Entire library database of 3,000 records plus software only took up 30 megabytes. Then Windows software blew apart the computer memory requirements.