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From 1979: The Ojibway artist was visited by the Thunderbird deity, who told him he had been chosen for a special mission

A 1970 Maclean’s poll asked Canadians for their deepest feelings about the Prime Minister and his chief opponent Robert Stanfield

In 1969, Trudeau spoke candidly about his new job and whether he thought Canada was impossible to govern

In 1969, Maclean’s interviewed a lawyer, a doctor, a professor and a psychologist who all smoked pot, proving the drug had shown a tremendous upward mobility.

Six months into Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s first term, his image had undergone a change, from charismatic swinger to tough administrator. At the time, Maclean’s asked three young pop artists to show how they see the man

In 1969, the international press fawned over Canada’s new prime minister—with the Daily Telegram calling him a curious mixture of Left Bank and James Bond

Chanie was 12, and Indigenous. He died as the white world’s rules had forced him to live—cut off from his people.

From 1959: When TV in Canada was only seven years old, Maclean’s toured the CBC casting offices, looking for old-fashioned and honest ways to get on the "magic box"

From 1959: As the author stood a few feet away in the soft Indian twilight, a fanatic pumped three bullets into the saintly old man

From 1959: On the eve of the big game the coaches follow an almost invariable formula: if the team is healthy, say it’s dying; if it’s dying, say it’s healthy. They practise this innocent deceit in the name of psychology and sometimes it works.