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Indian Act
The Indian Act is the document the government uses to give an Indian status. It was first introduced in 1876. The Indian Act pertains only to First Nations peoples, not to the Métis or Inuit. It is an evolving document that has enabled trauma, human rights violations and social and cultural disruption for generations of First Nations peoples. The Act also outlines governmental obligations to First Nations people. -
Xenophobia
xenophobia is the dislike or prejudice of other countries.in the early days cases of xenophobia occurre such as the Komagata Maru incident <1914> and the Chinese exclusion act. it was caused by the government.It was also fueled by fear-mongering and by ethnocentric views. Citizens, not only the government, were against the influx of foreigners coming to Canada mainly because they were afraid to lose their jobs to newcomers or for fear that immigrants will become a burden to society. -
Prohibition
Prohibition banned the production, import, and transportation of liquor across Canada. Women's groups had campaigned for a ban of liquor, stating that grain should be used to feed soldiers & civilians rather than to make alcohol.following this Prohibition was introduced by the federal government in 1918, causing the crime rate to drop and less people getting aressted for being drunk . However, illegal liquor was now made/sold by bootleggers and transported by rumrunners. -
Spanish flu
In 1918,After the return of the canadian soldier from war. Canada was struck with a terrible epidemic called the Spanish flu. it was mainy because the soldiers had viruses from abroad. Civilians usually got pneumonia when diagnosed with this epidemic and often died from it because penicillin and sulpha had not been discovered yet. because of this, schools, theatres, and churches closed their doors. the soldiers had come back from war too face more death -
Suffrage
On May 24,1918 , the canadian Parliament passed the Act to confer the electoral franchaise upon women.it granted the right to vote to all white canadian born women.the movement began in the 1870s under the leadership of emily stowe the first female doctor in canada. -
Bloody Saturday
Bloody Saturday took place on June 21st, 1919, during the Winnipeg General Strike. many people had gathered to watch a parade protesting the arrest of strike leaders, even though, parades had been banned at that time. The Royal North-West Mounted Police were called by the Mayor and the crowd was charged resulting in the death of one man, the injury of 30, and the arrest of hundreds. Five days later, the general strike was over -
Chinese exclusion Act
In efforts to stop immigration from China, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in Canada on July 1st 1923. This Act banned all Chinese from entering Canada, except for students, merchants, and diplomats. Canadians feared that the Chinese would take over their jobs. Due to the Great War (1914-1918), discrimination still existed in Canada. -
Old age pension
The first old-age pension was made by the federal parliament in 1927. It was jointly financed by federal and provincial governments but administered by the provinces, as pensions were considered a provincial constitutional responsibility at that time. The plan paid up to $20 per month, depending on other income and assets, and was available to British subjects 70 years old and older with 20 years of residence in Canada. A strict test was applied and was widely regarded as humiliating. -
Persons case
In the August of 1927, Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Henrietta Edwards, Irene Parlby decided to petition the prime minister about the meaning of 'persons' in Section 24 of the British North American Act. In April of 1928, the Supreme Court of Canada decided women were not 'persons' qualified for appointment to the Canadian Senate, although, the Privy Council in Britain said otherwise. because of this women were considered 'persons' in the eye of the law. -
child labour laws
Child labour is defined as the regular employment of boys and girls under the age of 15 or 16. Attitudes toward child labour have altered dramatically since the late 18th century when it was generally assumed that children should contribute to the family economy from about age 7 . in the 20th century, most provinces had enacted labour legislation to restrict the employment of children mostly due to urbanisation. by 1929 most Canadian provinces had ban children under 14 from working. -
Stock Market Crash
In the 1920s, many people played the stock market, thinking they could get rich overnight. Unfortunately, Tuesday, October 29, 1929, would forever be known as Black Tuesday, the day Canada's stock market crashed. Many people who invested in the stock market were affected terrribely and lost everything. This dramatic event had played a big role in Canada's economic downturn in the 1930's, which was known as the Great Depression -
Fascism in Canada
Fascism in Canada consisted of a variety of movements and political parties in Canada during the 20th century. Largely a fringe ideology, fascism has never commanded a large following amongst the Canadian people and was most popular during the Great Depression.The Canadian Union of Fascists, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was modeled on Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Its leader was Chuck Crate. -
The On-to-Ottawa Trek
The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a social movement of unemployed men, tired of life in the British Columbia relief camps. They boarded freight trains bound for Ottawa to protest the government. The men got to Regina, where they were stopped by the Mounted Police and accused of disobeying the law and plotting to overthrow the government by Prime Minister Bennett. Violence broke out in which dozens of people were injured & a police officer was killed. -
Bombardier
Bombardier Inc. is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of trains and commercial and private aeroplanes. the company was originally incorporated as L’Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942. Its founder, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, was a Québécois mechanical engineer who invented one of the first commercially viable snowmobiles. Bombardier Inc. has grown considerably from its beginnings as a snowmobile manufacturer and is now an iconic Canadian company. -
The st Louis
On 7 June 1939, 907 Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis were denied entry to Canada. The ship returned its passengers to safe harbour in four European countries. Sadly, 254 of its passengers later perished in the Holocaust.
