1914-1929

By emily147

  • Residential schools (1914) -2

    Residential schools (1914) -2
    First Nations children were seperated from their families and had to abandon their culture. Those children suffered abuse and most never saw their families again. These schools were open for decades.

  • Women's rights (1914) +2

    Women's rights (1914) +2
    women had to fight really hard to be treated equal to men. Before 1914 women weren't allowed to vote, work or treated fairly. The women's right movement gave women all these opportunities that they should have had the whole time.
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    1914-1929

  • Influenza (1918) -1

    Influenza (1918) -1
    Influenza was a big disease in 1918 that affected millions of people and millions of people died. At the time they didn't have the proper resources and technology to make a vaccine which wasn't invented until the 1930s

  • wage Winnipeg increase strike (1919) +1

    wage Winnipeg increase strike (1919) +1
    Winnipeg unions went on strike in 1919 as their current wages were too low for them to live off of. About 30,000 people joined the strike. The strike began a new era of political involvement for workers.

  • Diabetes treatment development (1922) +2

    Diabetes treatment development (1922) +2
    Before 1922, little was known about diabetes treatment. Frederick Banting and J.J.R Macleod discovered insulin as a treatment for diabetes, saving millions of lives.

  • Changes in Technology (1923) 0

    Changes in Technology (1923) 0
    many new technology developments happened during the 1920s. they built 40,000km of highways and and millions of motorized vehicles. The use of the telephone became increasingly popular.

  • Halibut treaty (1923) +1

    Halibut treaty (1923) +1
    In 1923, Canada and the US settled an agreement to set fishing limits. Normally Briatin would have to sign off on this agreement. But the king decided Canada could do it on its own. This helped establish Canada's right to take independent diplomatic action.

  • Fighting tuberculosis (1925) +1

    Fighting tuberculosis (1925) +1
    At the time, Tuberculosis was a leading cause of death. The National Research Council had started a vaccine which made TB a preventable disease.

  • The Balfour report (1926) +1

    The Balfour report (1926) +1
    The Balfour report lead to Canada's independence as they argues Britian shouldn't make decsions for Canada.

  • Child Labour (1929) 0

    Child Labour (1929) 0
    Before the 1920s children labour was common in Canada. By 1929 most Canadian provinces had passed a law that no children under the age of 14 can work in factories or mines which were very dangerous and instead go to school.