Bucking Conservatism : Alternative Stories Of Alberta From The 1960s and 1970s

A collection of essays examining progressive, activist, and dissenting movements in Alberta during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing upon archival records, newspapers, interviews, government documents, and personal recollections, the contributors explore Indigenous rights campaigns, feminist and gay liberation activism, student politics, socialist organizing, peace movements, environmental advocacy, and countercultural initiatives. Arranged in four thematic sections, the volume challenges conventional portrayals of Alberta as uniformly conservative by highlighting the individuals and organizations that advocated for social and political change. Contributions include studies of the Blue Quills occupation, Indigenous women's status rights campaigns, daycare activism, early gay rights organizations in Calgary and Edmonton, anti-apartheid organizing, and environmental protest movements.