Has anything interesting happened in Montreal, Canada or any part of Quebec in the last 50 years?

Question

I could use any information that would sound good on an oral presentation about family birthplaces. People have talked about immigration difficulties, food shortages, the poor marrying rich, that kind of stuff. I'm sorry I'm not being too specific, but this teacher is so vague. like yesterday he said right before class ended, find out where your parents were born then today got mad saying "Find out where your family is from" then today he got mad "That was your homework! Why didn't you write it down? Tsk,tsk that's not enough."
oops yeah a little irrelevant...

Answer 1

1957: The Montreal Herald (a newspaper) closed its doors after 146 years of printing news.
1959: The Saint Lawrence Seaway is opened jointly by Queen Elizabeth and President Dwight Eisenhower.
1962: Construction of Montreal Metro begins. Champlain bridge is opened to traffic.
1963: Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) members, Gabriel Hudon and Raymond Villeneuve are sentenced to 12 years in prison for manslaughter after their bomb killed Sgt. Wilfred V. O'Neill, a watchman at Montreal's Canadian Army Recruiting Center. Voting age lowered from 21 to 18.
1964: Married women obtain full legal rights (to buy property without their husband's signature, and so forth).
1967: Quebec celebrates the 100th anniversary of its joining in the creation of the nation of Canada. As part of Canada's centennial celebrations, the Universal Exposition of Montreal, better known as Expo 67, opens for the summer. Completion of the construction of Saint Joseph's Oratory on Montreal's Mount Royal.
1968: Pierre Trudeau (of Montreal) is electred Prime Minister of Canada. On October 26, the Parti Québécois is created out of the merger of René Lévesque's Mouvement Souveraineté-Association and the Ralliement national.
1969: The Union Nationale government of Jean-Jacques Bertrand passes "Bill 63" which confirms the status quo on the language of instruction in the public schools (Parents can choose English or French). The Montreal Expos baseball franchise beings play in Montreal. FLQ terrorists bomb the Montreal Stock Exchange.
1970: Terrorist activities by the Front de libération du Québec culminated with the abduction of James Cross, the British Trade Commissioner to Canada, and Pierre Laporte, a provincial minister and Vice-Premier. Martial law is declared and civil rights are suspended.
1971: Premier Bourassa launches the James Bay hydroelectric project.
1975: The Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms is passed and comes into effect the following year.
1976: Montreal hosts the Summer Olympics. Quebec-born author Saul Bellow wins the Nobel Prize for literature.
1980: Premier Lévesque puts sovereignty-association before the Quebec voters in a referendum. 60% of the Quebec electorate votes against it.
1981: In the "Night of the Long Knives" (French: "La Nuit des Longs Couteaux"), Pierre Trudeau makes a constitutional deal with nine anglophone provinces without Quebec.
1982: Following a court challenge to parts of Bill 101 (the French language law of the Province of Quebec), the Supreme Court of Canada rules them unconstitutional.
1984: Deranged former soldier Denis Lortie goes on a shooting spree at the National Assembly on May 8. The assembly is not in session; however, there are 3 deaths and 9 injured.
1989: A geomagnetic storm in northern Quebec causes a nine-hour blackout in parts of province on March 13. Owing to a ripple effect in the transmission lines that feed Quebec-produced energy to New York State, ultimately to New York City; and combined with a number of localised problems there and in neighbouring New Jersey and Long Island, the storm hundreds of miles away in the wilds of northern Quebec also ends up blacking out New York City for several hours.
1990: The Oka Crisis.
1993: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect.
1994: After almost 40 years of preparation the new Civil Code of Quebec comes into effect on January 1st.
1995: On October 30, another referendum on sovereignty is held. For the second time, the measure is rejected, this time by a slim margin of slightly more than one percent.
1996: Severe flooding in the Saguenay region from July 18-21 devastates the region and proves to be one of Canada's costliest natural disasters.
1998: A severe ice storm strikes Montreal and southwestern Quebec in early January, leaving parts of Montreal without power for up to a week; destruction of power lines and pylons leaves a "triangle of darkness" south of Montreal without power for three weeks.
2001: Rhéal Mathieu, who was a member of the former Front de Libération du Québec is convicted of the attempted firebombing of three Second Cup coffee shops in Montreal. Quebec Second Cup cafes took the name of Les cafés Second Cup afterwards. In April, Quebec City hosts the Summit of the Americas, attracting huge anti-globalization protests with activists from everywhere in the Americas. Simultaneously held is the Peoples Summit of the Americas.
2002: The merger of numerous cities and their suburbs (municipal fusions) into "megacities" goes into effect, creating the new megacities of Montreal, Longueuil, Quebec City, Lévis, Saguenay, Sherbrooke, and Gatineau among others.
2003: March: a court ruling legalizes same-sex marriage in Quebec.
2004: Demerger referendums: Many of the cities created in 2002 are again divided. This includes many small municipalities in the western part of the island of Montreal. In March, one of the biggest protests ever - with 80,000 students - takes place in downtown Montreal. A 103 million dollar cut to bursary funds by the government is the main issue. As many as 200,000 college and university students from nearly every region go on strike for up to as seven weeks.

Answer 2

The last 50 years of Quebec have been spent arguing about French Speaking, and Quebec culture and preserving it.

The 1980 and 1995 referendum in Quebec - voting on if they should separate from Canada

The 1970's the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec) bombed, killed and kidnapped all in the name of the separatist movement.

1974 they passed the Quebec Official Language Act, Making French the only official language in Quebec.

in 1977 they passed Bill 101, that went further in the same direction. The biggest part was businesses are fined for having English signs or even bilingual signs.

Answer 3

Both summer and winter Olympics were held in Canada. summer Olympics in Montréal (Québec) in 1976, and winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta in 1988.

In Québec, one of the major political events, forgotten by many, was the nationalisation of electricity production in the mid '60s, which created Hydro-Quebec, and the creation of the great dams project in the Baie-James area.

I hope this can add some "meat" around your presentation...