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With the government's new 1985 metrication policy, metric remains mandatory while imperial is tolerated for certain industries. - Television, 4:04

Jan. 30, 1985

A Canadian compromise

Television

4:04

While Canada has already begun metrication, the U.S. is dragging its heels. Will this affect Canada's transition? - Radio, 9:33

May 8, 1974

An irreversible process

Radio

9:33

A Toronto butcher goes to court to fight for ounces and pounds. - Television, 1:44

Jan. 19, 1983

Fighting metric in the meat market

Television

1:44

Front Page Challenge talks to a former civil servant who lost his job for speaking out against the metric system. - Television, 10:10

Feb. 23, 1982

Fired for opposing metric

Television

10:10

Depending on your perspective, it was either a sensible scientific shift, an annoying unnecessary change or a sinister communist plot. Canada's decision to go metric in 1970 definitely sparked some passionate debates. It even drove some Canadians to civil disobedience. CBC Archives explores the history of Canada's gradual and sometimes shaky transition to the metric system — a transition that, to this day, has yet to be fully completed.

Topic spans: 1963-2002

For Good Measure: Canada Converts to Metric

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9 television clips

11 radio clips

Many Canadians are angry about mandatory metric, and say they aren't going to take it anymore. - Television, 9:53

March 16, 1982

Full-scale metric rebellion

Television

9:53

An American metric critic is waging a war against metric on political grounds. - Radio, 4:12

Jan. 3, 1977

Is metric a communist plot?

Radio

4:12

When it comes to metric, school children are better educated than their parents in 1983. - Radio, 4:03

Nov. 15, 1983

Knowing more than mom and dad

Radio

4:03

Feb. 29 was once a rare opportunity for women to propose marriage and girls to do mannish things. - Radio, 6:12

Feb. 29, 1996

Leap year turns traditions topsy-turvy

Radio

6:12

When 18th-century surveyors scientifically determined what the length of a metre would be, it seems they made an error. - Radio, 12:10

Nov. 12, 2002

Radio

12:10

Nova Scotia's premier speaks out against the metric system. - Radio, 7:03

Nov. 27, 1983

Metric = socialism?

Radio

7:03

A store owner in Calgary is charged for selling carpets by the yard. - Television, 1:40

April 19, 1982

Metric carpet fighter

Television

1:40

The National gives an update on the metric transition at the end of 1983. - Television, 5:46

Dec. 27, 1983

Television

5:46

Canada is measuring in two systems these days, and it's getting confusing. - Television, 5:09

Dec. 7, 1985

Television

5:09

Jack Halpert, gas station owner and

Dec. 14, 1982

Metric rebel speaks

Television

7:27

Three different journalists from across the country talk about metric in their cities. - Radio, 15:24

Jan. 20, 1983

Metric, from coast to coast

Radio

15:24

Thanks to the French Revolution, a new measurement system was born. - Radio, 7:54

April 8, 1995

Metric: inspired by revolution

Radio

7:54

To protest mandatory metric, 37 Conservative MPs have opened up a gas station offering gasoline in gallons. - Radio, 8:44

Oct. 1, 1983

MPs moonlight as gas jockeys

Radio

8:44

Sandford Fleming's proposal for Standard Time brings order to a world of a hundred different time zones. - Television, 7:09

April 22, 1982

Sir Sandford Fleming delivers 'the world on time'

Television

7:09

90 Minutes Live features a light-hearted discussion on the pros and cons of going metric. - Television, 9:42

Sept. 27, 1977

'The great Canadian metric debate'

Television

9:42

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