Edging Towards the Abyss, 19581972 Selected Archival Photos

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Chapter 10

• Edging Towards the Abyss, 19581972 Selected
  Archival Photos

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• Earle Birney, winner of the 1950 Leacock Medal.
  LAC, C-31956.

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• Justice Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau with
  Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson at the
  federal-provincial conference of February 1968.
  LAC, C-25001.

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• Anti-Vietnam War protestors make their way to the
  US Consulate in Montreal, 19 February 1966. LAC,
  PA-173623.

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• John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, 30 January
  1958. Duncan Cameron/LAC, PA-117093.

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• Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau arriving at the
  Notre-Dame basilica in Montreal for the
  funeral of Pierre Laporte, 20 October 1970. An
  FLQ cell had seized Laporte on 10 October, and
  his body was found a week later in the trunk of a
  car at the St-Hubert airport. His murder helped
  to justify the federal government in its
  imposition of the War Measures Act. LAC,
  PA-113490.