The socio-economic realities of 1959

 In that time, the cold war was still there, and it was also the period of the "Grande noirceur" where Maurice Duplessis was the prime minister of Quebec. On a better note, those years were glorious years. The economy went well and shops doubled their sales. At the end of the decade, Quebec is undergoing a modernization.

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