Now Playing on CBC Radio Help Refresh

CBC Radio One

Listen Live Ottawa change

CBC Radio 2

Listen Live Eastern change

CBC Radio 3

Listen Live Radio 3
Digital Archives - Toronto's Yorkville: hippie havenSep 4, 1967 | 14:00Digital Archives Toronto's Yorkville: hippie haven Video
Digital Archives Toronto's Yorkville: hippie haven Sep 4, 1967 | 14:00Yorkville. It's hippie central, full of young kids, drugs, sex, and vagabonds.
Digital Archives - St. Lawrence Seaway: Let the flooding beginAug 15, 1954 | 16:29Digital Archives St. Lawrence Seaway: Let the flooding begin Video
Digital Archives St. Lawrence Seaway: Let the flooding begin Aug 15, 1954 | 16:29CBC Television travels to the towns that will soon be flooded over in the construction of the Seaway.
Digital Archives - Hippie society at Haight-Ashbury: The birth of hipMar 24, 1968 | 7:02Digital Archives Hippie society at Haight-Ashbury: The birth of hip Video
Digital Archives Hippie society at Haight-Ashbury: The birth of hip Mar 24, 1968 | 7:02Canadian filmmaker Don Shebib journeys to the epicentre of the hippie world, the corner of Haight and Ashbury Streets in San Francisco.
Digital Archives - Hippie life: It ain't easyNov 29, 1967 | 6:43Digital Archives Hippie life: It ain't easy Video
Digital Archives Hippie life: It ain't easy Nov 29, 1967 | 6:43A hippie in Kitsilano talks about getting by, meditating, doing drugs and dropping out.
Digital Archives - David K. Foot: Boom, Bust and EchoMar 7, 1996 | 12:02Digital Archives David K. Foot: Boom, Bust and Echo Video
Digital Archives David K. Foot: Boom, Bust and Echo Mar 7, 1996 | 12:02In startling fashion, professor and author David K. Foot uses demographics to explain the link between population trends and the economy.
Digital Archives - Beatniks: The hippie forefathersFeb 17, 1963 | 3:48Digital Archives Beatniks: The hippie forefathers Video
Digital Archives Beatniks: The hippie forefathers Feb 17, 1963 | 3:48A peek at Canada's first "Happening," a Dada-inspired night of beatnik frivolity at Toronto's Bohemian Embassy club.
Digital Archives - Hippies' Rochdale College: Organized anarchyJan 8, 1969 | 16:18Digital Archives Hippies' Rochdale College: Organized anarchy Audio
Digital Archives Hippies' Rochdale College: Organized anarchy Jan 8, 1969 | 16:18The view from inside Canada's first free university and largest co-operative living experiment. Freedom — some might say anarchy — prevails.
Digital Archives - Duplessis Orphans: A dark history revealedAug 14, 1992 | 1:56Digital Archives Duplessis Orphans: A dark history revealed Audio
Digital Archives Duplessis Orphans: A dark history revealed Aug 14, 1992 | 1:56The Duplessis Orphans organize and protest some four decades after their release from psychiatric hospitals.
Digital Archives - Juvenile delinquents become young offendersApr 2, 1984 | 2:19Digital Archives Juvenile delinquents become young offenders Video
Digital Archives Juvenile delinquents become young offenders Apr 2, 1984 | 2:19The Young Offenders Act of 1984 updates how people under 18 are treated when charged with a crime.
Digital Archives - Africville is destroyedSep 15, 1967 | 1:55Digital Archives Africville is destroyed Video
Digital Archives Africville is destroyed Sep 15, 1967 | 1:55Bulldozers move in as residents are shipped out.
Digital Archives - Generation X vs. the BoomersJan 17, 1993 | 9:11Digital Archives Generation X vs. the Boomers Audio
Digital Archives Generation X vs. the Boomers Jan 17, 1993 | 9:11"The Me Generation" does battle with the "Why Me? Generation."
Digital Archives - Duplessis Orphans: Medical experimentationJun 18, 2004 | 2:35Digital Archives Duplessis Orphans: Medical experimentation Video
Digital Archives Duplessis Orphans: Medical experimentation Jun 18, 2004 | 2:35The Duplessis Orphans demand a further investigation into alleged medical experimentation.
Digital Archives - Generation X: making a virtue of necessityAug 23, 1993 | 10:31Digital Archives Generation X: making a virtue of necessity Audio
Digital Archives Generation X: making a virtue of necessity Aug 23, 1993 | 10:31For some, Generation X adversity is an opportunity to redefine what is truly important.
Digital Archives - Generation X, the novelSep 16, 1991 | 8:16Digital Archives Generation X, the novel Audio
Digital Archives Generation X, the novel Sep 16, 1991 | 8:16Canadian author Douglas Coupland pens a tale that defines a generation.
Digital Archives - Generation X: A crash course in realityNov 20, 1985 | 5:01Digital Archives Generation X: A crash course in reality Video
Digital Archives Generation X: A crash course in reality Nov 20, 1985 | 5:01In International Year of Youth, a group of teens discover they cannot be anything they want to be.

1 of 6