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Boomer Timeline
1982
The homegrown Constitution of Canada and Charter of Rights and
Freedoms is signed in Ottawa. (Quebec did not accept the patriation package.)
Time magazine names the computer its Man of the Year.
1988
Canada and the U.S. sign a free trade agreement.
1985 to 1989
The number of Internet hosts grows from 2,000 at the end of 1985 to
30,000 by the end of 1987.Two years later, the number of hosts tops 160,000.
One year after that, the number of hosts has almost doubled to over 300,000.
1989
The Berlin Wall that has separated East and West Germany since the end of
the Second World War collapses, marking the official end of the Cold War and
the beginning of the end of Communism in central Europe.
1990
Native M.P. (then a Manitoba MLA) Elijah Harper refuses to approve the
Meech Lake Accord, marking the beginning of the demise of the proposed
group of amendments to the constitution of Canada, which would have included
recognizing the province of Quebec as a “distinct society.”
1991 to 1992
The dramatic growth of the Internet continues. More than 100 countries
with over 600,000 hosts and 5,000 networks are now connected.A year later,
the number of networks has topped 7,500 and more than a million hosts are
connected.
The World Wide Web explodes onto the cyberspace scene. (Canadian science
fiction writer William Gibson coined the term “cyberspace” in his 1988
novel Neuromancer.) The number of hosts and networks speeds up, doubling
every three months.The Web has become an integral part of popular culture in
less than 30 years.
1994
Canada, the United States and Mexico launch the North American Free
Trade Agreement and form the world’s largest free trade area.
1995
Quebec teeters on the brink of separation when the “No” side, voting for
the province to remain part of Canada, wins by just 50.56 per cent.
2001
September 11 marks the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon.
2008
Gold is worth $1,000 an ounce. (In 1967, it stood at $32 an ounce.)
Twentieth anniversary of Fifty-Five Plus magazine.
September 2008 • 15 • Fifty-Five Plus Magazine