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Prohibition
Here's a story about Prohibition with a little cartoon. Canada started prohibition during WWI. Prohibition is the law that bans alcohol from being consumed and sold becasue peopel thought alcohol casue violence and drunkeness in public. However, when America allowed prohibition, Canada had a lot of criminal activity. This was during the 1920' and early 30's. Some of the criminal activity included "Bootlegging" which is selling alcohol illegally and "Blind Pigs" which is places where illegal alcohol is sold and drank. -
Spanish Flu
Here's a map of how the Spanish Flu spread throughout the World The Spanish Flu started in the Spring of 1918. It was a pandemic which is a worldwide epidemic. It was fatal, as over 100 million people died form it, of those people, 50, 000 were Canadian. Even if the soldiers had survived four long years of war, they might of come home to find out that their family had died because of the Spanish Flu. -
WWI Ends
More infomation on the treaty of Versialles, click here. World War One, or the Great War comes to an end by a armistice. An armistice is a treaty for both sides to stop fighting. In this case it was Germany and the Allied Forces. This armistice was called the Treaty of Versailles. Germany wanted this because it was on the verge of collapsing and it was losing the war. This treaty was signed at the Paris Peace Conference in Versailles and signed on January 28th, 1919. -
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Interwar years
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Winnipeg General Strike
It officailly began on this date and it was Canada's largest general strike as 30,000 employees quit their jobs and went on strike. They went on strike because they wanted to be paid higher wages, they were frustrated at the unemployment rates after WWI and they were scared of Canada becoming a communist place. They were scared of beccoming a communist country becasue the Russian Revolution lead by Vladimir Lenin had succeeded. The strikers were known as "Boshleviks" too. -
Bloody Saturday
more information on this event, click here. The Wennipeg General Strike ends on this day, the results? One person died and there were 30 injuried. The strikers had also flipped and set fire to a passing street car. The leaders were sent to jail and many people lost their work and therefore, the ecomomy in Wennipeg started to drop. -
Jazz Age
Cleick here for a video of the Jazz Age The Jazz Age is the span of time in the 1920's and it was commonly used to discribe the culture in the U.S. Jazz music and dance had been introduced into society along with public radio. It was introduced by Black Americans in the 1800's in New Orleans but white musicians were used to populaerize it. In the Jazz Age, countries like England, America and France became slightly mroe multicultural. It was a socail and cultural event. -
Group of Seven
More Group of Seven Paintings, click here. The Group of Seven was founded in the year 1920.The original artists in this group were Franklin Carmicheal, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. Macdonald and F.H. Varley. Tom Thomson was a close friend of the group but he died in 1917. They all met in Toronto in 1911-1913. The Group of Seven was a group of artists that painted the landscape of Northern Ontarioand they made better ways to show the beauty of the lanscapes. -
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Roaring Twenties
The time of the "Jazz Age" and "Golden Twenties". -
Mackenzie King became Prime Minister
This date was the first time that Mackenzie King becomes the Prime Minister. He was Canada's longest serving Prime Minister as he won the election in 1925, 1926, 1935, 1940 and 1945. He put the unity of Canada first but he often conradicted himself, as revealed in his diaries. This was a political event. -
Insulin was discovered
For more infomation on Insulin, click here. Insulin was discovered by Frederick Banting and Charles Best in this year. It is the best Canadian medical discovery and it is still in use today. They had discovered it by tying a string to the pancreatic duct of many dogs. At first there were many flaws with the insulin but Banting and Best recieved a labratory in Toronto and eventually discovered a working sample of insulin on this date. Insulin is not a cure but it help the diabetic. -
Foster William Hewitt & HNIC
Foster William Hewitt was a Canadian broadcaster for the radio back in the 1920's. He became famous by his "play-by-play" commentary and the quote, "He shots! He scores!" in the Hockey Night in Canada. He was born in Toronto, Ontario on November 21, 1902. Hewitt's first broadcast was on February 16th for the Toronto Maple Leafs. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
For more information on the Chinese Exclusion act, click here. This is the date of when the act was passed and was known by Chinese people as "humiliation day". In the act, no Chinese people were allowed to come to Canada except for students, merchants and diplomats. From 1923- 1947, only eight Chinese people came to Canada. This act had ended in 1947 but the effects remained until 1967, twenty years later. This happened because the railway was complete, there was rascism and people were scared that Chinese would take jobs from the white community. -
Person’s Case
for more information on this event click here. The persons case was arguement between the Famous Five and the government. The Famous Five were a gruop of five women from Albertal; Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Edwards and Louise McKinney. The Famous Five led the argument that women were to be qualified as "persons". In 1928, the Supreme Court of Canada said that women were not "persons". This happened becasue women weren't considered to be "persons" and the Famous Five wanted to change that. It was won on this day. -
Black Tuesday
Click here for more information on Black Tuesday. This day was when investors were nervous of the sudden drop in value and began to sell many stocks at once. This happened in Canada as well as the United States. People borrowed money from banks at that time but they couldn't pay the bank back. Even people who didn't play the sotck market lost money because the banks gave their money to borrrow, Many comapnies went bankrupt andmany more people lost their jobs. This is what started the Great Depression. -
Great Depression
More info. on Great Depression. The Great Drepression is the age between 1929 and 1939. It started after Black Tuesday. It was an economic issue that affected many countries, some such as Australia. Some causes to the Great Depression was that Canada was producing more than the people can buy, Canada was too dependent on the U.S. and counrties in Europe stopped buying Canada's products because they had to repay loans to the U,S. Canadians weren't able to buy the products because they were paid under the poverty line. -
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Dirty Thirties
The time of the great depression. -
Five- Cent Speech
for more information on Mackenzie King and the "five- cent" speech, click here William Lyon Mackenzie King, the prime minister of Canada, gave a speech called the "five- cent speech" during this month and year. This speech was to tell the citizens that the provinces are helping with Black Tuesday and the Great Depression. He said in the speech, "would not give them a five-cent piece to those alleged unemployment purposes". he also said that "it is the provinces' responsibility." After this speech, King was thrown out of power and Bennett became the new Prime Minister. -
Richard Bedford Bennett becomes the Prime Minister
For more information on R.B. Bennett see here. This is the date that R.B. Bennett came to power. he is the 11th Prime Minister of Canada. Bennett had come to poower during the Great Depression and he tried many things to pull Canada out of it. Some things included to increase the trade between Canada and the British Empire. -
Statute of Westminster
Here's a map of all the counrties that accepted it It is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which the dominions of the British Empire or the United Kingdom had the ability to form thier own laws. India, however, was not included. It applied to the six dominions that exsited in 1931, Canada was one of them. The Statute of Westminster was applied on this date. This allowed the countries to become independent nations. -
New Deal
For more information on the "New Deal" click here. Bennett began live radio speeches on this day ouitlining the "New Deal" during the peak of Great Depression. Some items that he said " were "progressive taxation system, a maximum work week, a minimum wage, closer regulation of working conditions, unemployment, health and accident insurance, a revised old-age pension and agricultural support programs." (Canadian Encyclpedia). The people who had cars could no longer buy gas so they had horses drag the cars, these were called "Bennett Buggies". -
On to Ottawa Trek
Here's some more infomation on the Ottawa Trek. This was during the Great Depression when unemployed people grew fed up of the conditions in relief camps. The men started to go on strike in April in Vancouver, B.C. but eventually moved to Ottawa. On this day, hundred of people hitchhiked onto trains that would carry them to Ottawa. They wanted better first aid, medical insurence and to have the right to vote. This is a economical and social event. -
World War Two starts
WWII starts on this day but as a independent nation now, Canada can choose wheather or not to join the war but we joined anyway. On September 10, 1939, Canada declares war on Germany. This was a military and religous event because many countries were at war. This event had also brought Canada out of the Great Depression because the war industries were back in business and people got their jobs back. Then, people started to sell and buy things again, the economy gradually got better.
