he Sixties Revolution and the Fall of Social Credit picks up the province's story in the tumultuous 1960s. As traditional social values and institutions give way to modernist ideals embraced by the baby boomers, the pace of social, economic and technological change gathers momentum. The old political regimes in Edmonton and Ottawa are swept aside. Protest marchers fill the streets and music festivals take over the parks. Young people flee the churches and flock to the cities. In the oil patch, the hunt migrates north to the tar sands and beyond. Jet aircraft take command of the skies, a hi-rise building boom transforms Calgary and Edmonton, and the environmental movement is born.
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"Eventually everybody's gonna go bottomless."
--Edmonton strip club pioneer Pierre Cochard (1973)
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The Sixties Revolution chronicles these turbulent times through the perspective of Albertans both famous and obscure. They include Calgarian Doris Anderson, editor of Chatelaine magazine and champion of feminism, and Harold Cardinal, the "boy genius" from the Sucker Creek Reserve who led a modern Indian uprising against Ottawa. There are profiles of the province's leading Sexual Revolutionaries: Edmonton strip club owner Pierre Cochard; Red Deer Love Shop founder Brenda Hooge; Alberta-born Everett Klippert, martyr for the early gay rights movement. And Athabasca's David Werenka hitchhikes all the way to Woodstock for the greatest gathering of the counterculture tribes.
