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An oil well is drilled in Alberta and oil was discovered causing a growth in drilling and removing oil changing the economy.
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NewFoundland went bankrupt and joined Canada.
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Canada sent troops overseas to under the United Nations in Korea.
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Many more children were born causing an explosion in the population in Canada.
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Many more people immigrated to Canada and brought their way of life with them and changed the way Canada was.
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Harold Johns invented the Radiation treatment for cancer nicknamed Cobalt Bomb. It was installed for the first time in October 23 1951.
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CBC the first Canadian television station firs went on air and this brought a new era of communication.
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IBM made the first personal computer and later more were made and used in more places such as schools and offices.
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War over control of Suez Canal in Egypt, Canada had a Peace Keeping Force under the United Nations.
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Phyllis Cormack was a boat that went to protest against a bomb being tested on an island. This lead to more organizations such as Greenpeace.
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Terry Fox Starts his Marathon of Hope which lead to funding for more cancer research, and inspired more people to do similar things.
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Marc Garneau was the first Canadian to enter space on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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He did a 40 000 km trip around the world in a wheel chair to try and raise money for spine research.
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The wall that divided Germany East and West came down.
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The World Wide Web was invented in 1990, this is what started the internet that we are familiar with today.
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Judges started to uphold more of the rights of the Native Nations.
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Cod was being over fished and so they had to stop fishing, after the area had been fished for over 500 years.
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Kim Campbell was the first woman to be Prime minister in Canada
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At the turn to the year 2000 people panicked because they weren't certain if computers would crash because they could not input the new year, programmers managed to resolve the issue before it could have happened.
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Nunavut became he third territory of Canada
