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The Spanish flu
The Spanish flu went on from 1918 to 1920 and was one of the most severe illnesses of the 20th century. The Spanish flu was a virus that would be passed on from person to person through unsanitary contact. By the end of 1919, the Spanish flu had killed approximately 21 million people -
bloody Saturday
on June 21st, 1919 the royal west mounted police fired into a crowd of thousands of different workers. This caused 2 people to die and injured countless other workers and civilians. the infamous " bloody Saturday" marked the end of the attack. -
Residential schools
Residential schools were camps that were built for indigenous children. The purpose of these schools was to remove the culture that has been inflicted on the child by their original family. however, when the 1920s started the schools started oppressing children of their education. Many people who went to these schools claimed to have been beaten, robbed, had their heads shaved and were numbered. The first residential school opened up in the 1870s and the last school did not close until 1996. -
Flapper
A flapper was a rebellious woman of the 1920s. They would wear short skirts ( which were knee-high at the time ) bobbed their hair, listen to jazz and flaunted their design for what was considered appropriate behavior. -
the golden age of sports
The 1920s were considered the golden age of sports because that was when sports became more competitive. Men's sports started advancing at an eminence rate while womens sports were on a strong decline. The four most popular sports at the time were boxing, baseball, basketball and football. -
The jazz age
The jazz age also known as the Roaring 20s was a time of celebration. This era of time has just begun after the end of the first world war. However, this era would not finish to strongly with the crash of 1929 leading into the great depression of the 1930s -
Chinese exclution act
In 1923 Canada passed a law that is now known as the Chinese exclusion act. This law had claimed against any form of immigration of all Chinese people. -
Insulin
In 1923 Fredric Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip insulin was purified making it a successful way to treat diabetes. Fredric Banting and Charles Best earned a Nobel Prize for there work that same year -
Bennett buggy's
Bennett Buggy was a term used in Canada during the great depression. It was used to discribe a car without an engine, windows and sometimes had frame work taken out of it however it was pulled by a horse. In the United States they called these contraptions " Hoovers " -
Radio
By the 1920s the radio has cost about 150$ however today that would cost over 1000$. by the 1930s the price of the radio had gone down drastically meaning that most people had a radio in there homes making it a common past time activity. -
Persons case
The persons case Also known as Edwards vs Canada was a case that established the right of women to join the Senate. The group started with 5 women in 1928 that went to the supreme court. When the law had passed in 1929 the supreme court said that women were not " persons " as at the time women were not aloud to run for senate now those 5 women changed the law forever -
The great depression
The great depression took place after the stock market's economic crash in 1929. After the wall street crash, everybody lost all of their money in the stock market putting everybody into a panic. This also led to many bank failures and the collapse of the money supply. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was the Tuesday that the wall street crash happened that caused the Great Depression. On October 29th, 1929 16 million shares happened in the New York stock trading industry. This caused the stock market to plummet and billions of dollars to be lost. -
five cent speech
April 3rd, 1930 was the day that Makenzie King give the famous 5-cent speech stating that we should give some of our money to provincial conservative governments. After the speech was given the prime minister interrupted saying they would not be giving 5 cents to " these governments " -
The group of 7
in 1920-1933 the group of seven was a group of landscape painters. when the group found each other in the 1920s the group decided they wanted to show how dense the Canadian shield spiritual force was.