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Rene: a Canadian in search of a country, McClelland and Stewart, 223 pages ISBN 0-7710-2691-9; Dupont, Pierre (1977). How Levesque Won, Lorimer, 136 pages ISBN 0-88862-130-2 (translated by Sheila Fischman) Fennario, David (2003). The Death of René Lévesque, Talonbooks, March 10, 72 pages ISBN 0-88922-480-3; Fournier, Claude (1995).
1960 - The Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup for the fifth consecutive season. As of 2024, they are the only National Hockey League franchise to do so.; 1960 – Quebec general election: The election of a new Liberal Party government led by Premier Jean Lesage marks the beginning of a period of sustained change known as the Quiet Revolution.
The 1973 Quebec general election was held on October 29, 1973 to elect members to National Assembly of Quebec, Canada.The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Premier Robert Bourassa, won re-election, defeating the Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, and the Union Nationale (UN).
[5] [6] After a merger with the Ralliement national led by Gilles Grégoire, the Sovereignty-Association Movement founded a new provincial political party, the Parti Québécois, which placed René Lévesque's Sovereignty-Association idea at the heart of its program. René Lévesque was elected leader of this new party on October 14, 1968.
The Mouvement Souveraineté-Association (MSA, English: Movement for Sovereignty-Association) was a separatist [1] movement formed on November 19, 1967 by René Lévesque to promote the concept of sovereignty-association between Quebec and the rest of Canada.
This is a list of the premiers of the province of Quebec since Canadian Confederation in 1867. Quebec uses a unicameral (originally bicameral) Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the National Assembly (previously called the Legislative Assembly).
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, the longest consecutively serving premier. The premier of Quebec is the head of government of Quebec.Since Canadian Confederation in 1867, there have been 32 premiers who have formed 37 Quebec ministries.
The election also saw the emergence of two other political groups. The Democratic Alliance , led by Nick Auf der Maur , ran 13 candidates in the anglophone areas of the Island of Montreal , while the Parti national populaire (founded by Fabien Roy and Jérôme Choquette ) had 36 candidates provincewide but ran a less-organized campaign.