<P> Prior to the Quiet Revolution, the province's natural resources were mainly developed by foreign investors . As an example, the process of mining iron ore was developed by the US - based Iron Ore Company of Canada . In the spring of 1949, a group of 5,000 asbestos miners went on strike for three months . The 1949 Asbestos Strike found Quebecer miners united against a nationalist foreign corporation . Those who supported the miners included Monsignor Charbonneau, Bishop of Montreal, the Québécois nationalist newspaper, Le Devoir, and a small group of intellectual individuals . Until the second half of the 20th century, the majority of Francophone Quebec workers lived below the poverty line, and Francophones did not join the executive ranks of the businesses of their own province . Singer and political activist Felix Leclerc described this phenomenon, writing, "Our people are the waterboys of their own country ." </P> <P> In many ways, Duplessis's death in 1959, quickly followed by the sudden death of his successor Paul Sauvé, triggered the Quiet Revolution . The Liberal Party, led by Jean Lesage and campaigning under the slogans Il faut que ça change ("Things have to change") and Maîtres chez nous ("Masters of our own house", a phrase coined by Le Devoir editor Andre Laurendeau), was voted into power within a year of Duplessis's death . </P> <P> It is generally accepted that the revolution ended before the October Crisis of 1970, but Quebec's society has continued to change dramatically since then, notably with the rise of the sovereignty movement, evidenced by the election of the sovereignist Parti Québécois (first in 1976), the formation of a sovereignist political party representing Quebec on the federal level, the Bloc Québécois (formed in 1991), as well as the 1980 and 1995 Sovereignty Referendums . Some scholars argue that the rise of the Quebec sovereignty movement during the 1970s is also part of this period . </P> <P> The Canadian Constitution of 1867 made education an area of provincial responsibility . Quebec set up a Ministry of Public Instruction in 1868 but abolished it in 1875 under pressure from the Catholic Church . The clergy believed it would be able to provide appropriate teaching to young people and that the province should not interfere . By the early 1960s, there were more than 1,500 school boards, each responsible for its own programs, textbooks and the recognition of diplomas according to its own criteria . </P>

What was the result of the quiet revolution