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Spanish flu
In the early 1920s when the first world war ended a strange but deadly virus spread all throughout Europe and it was called the Spanish flu, now during the time of the virus it has killed more than 50 million people which were civilians and a little bit of ww1 soldiers. -
The Winnipeg general strike
The Winnipeg general strike happened in the year of 1919 this was because the people of Winnipeg wanted higher pay at the time and the government did not give it to them so they stopped working and started striking which makes this event one of the most memorable strikes ever. -
Bloody Saturday
The bloody Saturday incident was a part of the general strike but this was way more violent as the people of Winnipeg walked the streets wanting higher pay the royal north-west mounted police hired men to take out the protesters and killed 2 people -
Flappers
The Flappers were beautiful women at the time and they did a lot of things on their own from drinking to smoking to driving they were gorgeous and restyled the 1920s and made them a huge significance to why its called the roaring twenties -
The golden age of sports
The golden age of sports are widely recognized as the best sports period, during this time boxing, baseball and football were the most entertaining sports and babe ruth for baseball became the first player to earn $100000 dollar contract -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was one of the worst times to be in as families were poor left right and centre and could barely afford to feed themselves and there children. Only certain people were picked to work a job for money which made a lot of families hungry and poor -
The radio
The radio was invented in the late 1800s but the 20s is where it really got its name by giving music to the people and sports being broadcasted which influenced a lot of people to purchase a radio which to this day is one of the best inventions -
Residential schools in Canada
Residential schools opened up in Canada in about 1834 but in the 20s is when it became more operated with there main goal being to strip the native out of young boys and girls so that the children would lose their religion and become something they dont want to be -
Foster hewitt
Foster was a canadian sports broadcaster who was most popular for his broadcasts on hockey night in Canada and people will say he is one of the greatest canadian announcers -
The jazz age
During this time in the 20s jazz artists started to get more involved in the music industry and they were a hit some of the best artists of this time were Louis Armstrong,Duke Ellington and king Oliver these artists changed the way music is played for 100 years. -
Talkies
Talkies are movies that finally introduced sound these movies were better to watch and listen. You could listen to these movies through the radio or go watch it in the theatre these without talkies big movies now wouldn’t be a thing -
The causes of the Great Depression
There were many causes of the Great Depression a couple of them being the dust bowl which killed millions of crops the stock market crashes which loses lots of money and consumer debt which is when people use their credit card too much and cant pay it back. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday is when the stock market crashes and many people lose so much money which made a lot of people angry and upset, this incident happening loses the government so much money. -
Bennett buggies
Bennett buggies were mostly popular due to farmers who dont have gasoline for real cars so they would just use a cart with 2 horses tied to it called the bennett buggie. These cars were just frames and two horse pulling the frame. -
Relief
There was so much relief once everything went back to normal everyone was getting jobs people were celebrating and getting money back people were so thankful for it to finally be over after 10 years