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2 unusual facts about Quiet Revolution


Quebec French syntax

In post-Quiet Revolution Quebec, the use of informal tu has become widespread in many situations that normally call for semantically singular vous.

We See Lights

The Quiet Revolution gained members in January 2008 (Craig Ross on (bass/guitar), Ross Harvey (drums), Ciaran McGuigan (vocals) and Jonathan Lapsley (keyboard/vocals)) and soon became We See Lights.


Victoria Day

In Quebec, the same day was, since the Quiet Revolution, unofficially known as FĂȘte de Dollard until 2003, when provincial legislation officially named the same date as Victoria Day the National Patriots' Day.


see also

1985 Governor General's Awards

Michael D. Behiels, Prelude to Quebec's Quiet Revolution: Liberalism versus Neo-nationalism

Bernard Grofman

His works include Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990 (with Chandler Davidson, eds., 1994), Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (ed., 2000), Political Science as Puzzle Solving (ed., 2001), A Unified Theory of Voting (with Samuel Merrill III, 1999), and A Unified Theory of Party Competition (with James Adams and Samuel Merrill III, 2005), among many others.

Ronny Jordan

Jordan's song "The Jackal" (from his 1993 album The Quiet Revolution) gained prominence when actress Allison Janney in the role of C. J. Cregg lip-synched it in the episode "Six Meetings Before Lunch" of The West Wing.