The life of teenagers in Canada in the 1950s is difficult to understand without having lived there. With this new demographic, many things had to be created to cater to this demographic, such as clothing, music, rules, and schools. The unique aspects of teenage life in this era include many rules, movies, rock n' roll, and how they communicated with each other. The problems adolescents face include marginalization, condemnation, and disapproval. The new demographic helped Canada as it reduced the “kids” demographic, and gave teenagers more freedom, independence and they finally felt like they could have their own “things”, as they would call their music, the their clothes, their friends, their social life etc. The teenage demographic was created in the 1950s due to the huge population size in this age group and the fact that teenagers gained more independence, freedom and privacy. Because of this new demographic, people began to see teenagers differently than children, as they did before. They had more freedom; they could go out after school, they would start doing some "adult" activities, such as working. They had more independence from their parents. Teens would usually want to be alone in their rooms talking to friends on the dial phone (if they had one) or sneaking out at night to go to clubs and parties. The baby boom made a great contribution to the new word “Teen” as in “In the 10 years from 1946 to 1956, the population increased by 20%, in Canada. Those new kids required the production of new furniture, new clothes and more food, along with new homes, new cars and many other amenities such as schools, playgrounds, swimming pools and hockey rinks. Lots of nice... middle of paper... ongoing help for Canadian culture as a whole. It allows teenagers; now that they are a population of their own they have more independence, freedom and rights. They were no longer seen as children, so they began to focus on post-secondary education and look at their future adult life in general, struggling to. a richer future.In Canadian culture, groups and musicians such as Elvis Presley or the Beatles (1960s) were able to have a target audience. It is important to learn how teenagers were in the past to receive advice from good and reject evil, Today. We could look at how much less teenage pregnancy was in the 1950s and learn, and we can reject all the exaggerated rules that existed for teenage girls during the 1950s. Works Cited (http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/fifties. htm)(http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_the_Baby_Boom_impact_Canada#slide5)