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Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a period in the roaring 20s and 30s of jazz music and new dances like the Charleston. It was a fun period where people would go to parties and have a good time while listening to the music. However, the older generation wasn't very happy because it was mainly played in clubs. This helped the women's rights act, since they would attend all these parties as flapper girls to show their worth. It was also good for people of colour since they could play music without discrimination. -
Bloody Saturday
When women began to work, they were paid half of what men were paid. This was very frustrating, and a woman named Helen Armstrong led a strike for all women to march the streets for their right of "Equal pay for equal work". They marched for a long time, and some men joined to protest. However, the Royal NW Mounted Police were called alongside the Union busters, they were handed bats and guns. This led to an outbreak of shooting and violence. 91 arrested, 30 injured, 2 dead. -
Spanish Flu Ends
The Spanish flu (Great Influenza) was a deadly virus began in 1918. It was like Covid-19, and it killed roughly 50 million people. The disease started during WW1 from an Influenza A virus. Since most people couldn't afford sanitation at war and sometime at home. The public immune systems were weak, and they could catch it more rapidly from lack of prevention. Fortunately, it came to an end in April 1920. -
Residential Schools
Residential schools were meant to teach young aboriginal children about culture and English skills. However, the schools weren't as they seemed, and they abused the children mentally and physically. If they made a mistake, they would be punished. Their idea was to "take the Indian out of the child". Some of the young children would be sexually assaulted, and most kids never returned home. They were taken from the schools, not by choice. They killed more than 10,000 kids. -
Golden Age Of Sports
The golden age of sports was when sports started improving and coming around. Basketball, hockey, tennis, and swimming were top favourites. The clothes were different longer and baggier, the padding was little pads of leather or nothing. Women were also allowed to play sports in this time. They had a basketball team, but not many, and they mainly played less contact sports like swimming and tennis. -
Prohibition
From 1920-1933, the government banned the usage of alcohol, thinking it wasn't fair to be celebrating during the war. After the war, the restrictions stayed. People would smuggle the banned product across boarders for bars that were kept secret. People would often use dog sleds to transport the alcohol. A bootlegger is a smuggler over land and not water, A famous rum runner was William "Bill" McCoy, who was mainly credited with Founding Rum Row, which was the boats transporting the alcohol. -
Flapper
The term "Flapper Girl" was used towards women who didn't want to be created for men, they would be social normalizations by drinking, smoking, partying, and wearing short/ more revealing clothes. -
The Radio
After the war there was a lot of new and creative inventions like the automobile (car), vacuum, radio, and ironing. These inventions became essential and since everyone was wealthy, it was all affordable. the radio became the most essential for entertainment since it has music and a new way of communication. -
Insulin
In Toronto, a young boy was suffering from diabetes and a university discovered insulin and treated him with the product. Within a day, the young boy's blood levels became normal, and he was cured until his next dose. He was the first person to test the product, and it helped the future to this day. -
Black Tuesday
One of the reason for the Great Depression was Black Tuesday, it was the day the stalk market crashed, causing banks to go bankrupt. The banks men would off themselves because of how depressed they had just become since they had just lost everything. It was a horrible time to live. -
Great Depression
In the late 20s the stalk market crashed causing banks and people to go bankrupt and the Tariffs on out of country products were higher than ever. It was an all-time low, where people could barely afford a jar of pickles. Most people couldn't pay rent and got evicted. Resources were low and most were starving. Many people had to give away their children and make huge sacrifices just to survive. Nobody was happy. -
New Deal
The new deal was for lifeguards on the banking industry to reinflate the economy after the stalk market crashed. It was to become normal and to grow out of poverty. It was laws passed by the congress. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president, and he tried to rebuild the economy until WW2. His plans were called The New Deal. -
Relief
During the great depression, many were unemployed. Relief camps came about for men to go to for a bed and limited food and money in exchange for hard labour. The conditions in these camps were rough and uncleanly. It was the help for those in need during the depression for money and food, it was like charity. The government made cards for those to buy food, however it was embarrassing. People were upset they needed handouts and loans when they were used to have a wealthy life they worked for. -
Talkies
Talkies were movies with sound. This was very beneficial since movies before didn't have sound. This was a very exciting time and everyone was in theatres experiencing the first talkie, "The Jazz Singer". The movies used to have words on the screen instead of sound and there would be people on stage playing music and sounds for the movie.