1. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.1 Chapter Twenty Contemporary Canada

2. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.2 Wilfrid Laurier took Canada into the twentieth century, and Jean Chrétien took Canada into the twenty-first. Canadian Press/Tom Hanson.

3. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.3 Canadian peacekeepers, part of the large Canadian force in Bosnia in 1998. Department of National Defence.

4. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.4 Canadian soldiers carry the bodies of two fellow soldiers killed in Afghanistan into a C- 130 Hercules aircraft for repatriation to Canada. Department of National Defence, Combat Camera, AR2006-G017-0010

5. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.5 Premier Robert Grimes and Governor- General Adrienne Clarkson with the document that renames Canada’s easternmost province, Newfoundland and Labrador, December 200l. CP Picture Archive/Fred Chartrand.

6. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.6 Distribution of Canada’s Population by Province and Territory, 2001. Source: Statistics Canada, 2001 Census, “Population and Dwelling Counts.”

7. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.7 Quebec in 2002 extended full parental rights to homosexual couples in Quebec. Same-sex couples also gained the same status and obligations of heterosexual married couples when they entered into a civil union. Lesbians react as the Quebec National Assembly passes the law. Canadian Press, the shot appears in Robert J. Brym, John Lie, and Steven Rytina, Sociology. Your Compass for a New World, 2nd Canadian Edition (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2007), 474.

8. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.8 Canadian women’s hockey team, with team coach Danièle Sauvageau (in the centre) just after winning the women’s gold medal at the Salt Lake City Olympics. Canadian Press/COA/Mike Redwood.

9. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.9 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Executive Producer Mark Starowicz just prior to filming the sequence on the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, in the television series Canada: A People’s History.

10. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.10 CP Picture Archive/Andrew Wallace. Alanis Morissette.

11. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.11 Wind power is an excellent source of alternative energy. Here are generators at work on the Cowley Ridge Wind Farm project near the southern Alberta town of Cowley. CP Photo/ Larry MacDougall/ Photo 1825053.jpg

12. Copyright © 2008 by Nelson Education Ltd.12 Mining trucks with loads of oil-laden sand at the Albian Sands oil sands project in Fort McMurray, Alberta, August 5, 2005. CP Photo/ Larry MacDougal.