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Postwar Canada: One immigrant family
War is over, victory savoured. Now what to do with jobless soldiers streaming home? And how to get women out of the factory and back to the hearth? Such postwar fears evaporated as the economy boomed, a surge of immigrants transformed an increasingly confident nation and the social safety net began to take shape. In what's now viewed as a golden age, modern Canada was born.
Program: CBC Newsmagazine
Broadcast Date: Nov. 7, 1954
Duration: 16:28
Last updated: March 30, 2012
Page consulted on March 20, 2013
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