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Automobiles (1)
The booming economy in Canada lead to more consumers. Although the automobiles had been invented before the 1920s they made a big impact on Canada's economy in the 1920s. Since the 1920s was full of prosperity many people had enough money to purchase an automobile. The growing demand for automobiles opened up new job opportunities in Canada, jobs such as auto mechanics and jobs for assembling cars. -
Automobiles (2)
In 1929 over 16, 000 Canadians had jobs in the automobile industry. This was important for Canada because the demand and production of automobiles was a major role in the booming economy. -
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1920s and 1930s Timeline
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The halibut Treaty
The Halibut Treaty was a treaty signed between Canada and USA, it was signed in March 1923. The Halibut treaty was about the international commissions on fishing in the Pacific. This was very important for Canada this is because this was this was the first treaty which Canada signed and Britain was not involved. This started the to show the separation and independence form Britain. -
The Balfour Report (2)
5 years later this report was made law and gave more power to Canadian parliament and the prime minister, they were now also able to create their own foreign policies. This was important because Canada began to become more independent and made their own decisions showing the separation between Britain. -
The Balfour Report (1)
The Balfour Report took place in 1926. It all started when Mackenzie King and Governor General Julian Byng had a disagreement about who had more authority in Canada. Because of this they held a conference in 1926 in London. The head of the conference was Arthur Balfour who was part of the British Cabinet. As a result of this conferences The Balfour Report was created, it was mainly written by Mackenzie King. -
The Persons Case (3)
Later they decided to fight their case in Britain's Privy Council, where they won their case and now the definition of “person” in Canada referred to both men and women. This was very important for Canada because it gave women more rights and changed what women were capable for, if this were not to have happened then women today wouldn’t have certain rights they do and they wouldn't be valued as much as a male would be. -
The Persons Case (2)
They wanted to change the legal definition of “person”. At the time when the word “persons” was used it was referring to men only, even in law which said that only a person can be appointed to the senate, which meant only men. These five women fought for their rights and took their case to supreme court in Canada where they lost their case. -
The Persons Case (1)
October 18, 1929 was the day when women were now considered persons. In 1927 five women from Alberta named Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney and Irene Parlby fought the persons case. -
Black Tuesday (1)
October 29,1929 is called Black Tuesday this day marks the date of the stock market crash which lead to the great depression. In the 1920s buying stocks in the stock market was one the most popular ways to invest money. It was so famous that people would buy on credit thinking they could just pay back the credit with the profit they make, although that didn't happen since when the stock market crashed the value of the stocks dropped and people didn’t make any profit and were stuck paying credit. -
Black Tuesday (2)
The stock market crashed because of the sudden panic and people starting selling their stocks which drastically dropped the price of them. This was important because it was the one of the reasons for the great depression which followed afterwards. -
R.B. Bennett (2)
And because he raised the tariffs Canadian exports dropped by 67%. By 1933 Canadian knew that he wasn’t going to make a difference, at this time there were a lot of jokes about him. For example people were unable to afford gas so they removed the engine from their automobiles and hooked them up to horses they called them the Bennett buggy. He was important because he made the great depression in Canada much worse, he later left office in 1935. -
R.B. Bennett (1)
Richard Bedford Bennett was elected Canada’s 11 Prime Minister on August 7, 1930. He was a lawyer, businessman and politician. Since he was elected during the Great Depression he promised more jobs, and he would increase tariffs to protect Canadian industries and to help Canada get through the great depression. Although after he was elected unemployment skyrocketed. In 1933, 826,000 people were unemployed. -
Regina Riot (2)
People from these towns felt unsafe because they felt that the young men were up to no good. So the government decided to create relief camps were young men would work. At these relief camps the men had to do very hard labour, they were given shelter, money and food although they felt that the conditions were very bad. So they decided to go to Ottawa and talk to the R.B.Bennett to tell him how they feel. -
Regina Riot (3)
Although when the R.B.Bennett found out they they were coming he had them stopped in Regina, but allowed for the strike leader to come meet him. When the strike leaders met with the R.B.Bennett he didn't listen to them so they went back to Regina mad. On July 1, 1935 the men on strike held a rally where the RCMP came in and tried to keep things under control. On this day 1 police man was assaulted and many others were injured. -
Regina Riot (1)
During the great depression many young men were unemployed and because of this they went town to town searching for job opportunities. -
William Lyon Mackenzie King Re-Elected :
On October 23, 1935 William Lyon Mackenzie King was re-elected for the third time. Mackenzie King had many different views on the great depression compared to R.B.Bennett. He felt that the government couldn't do anything to help with the great depression, and he had no plans on helping the economy. He said that he would not give a “five cents piece” to help any conservative party. Although he did do things to help for example he lowered tariffs and made relief programs. -
Drought in Saskatchewan (2)
Since farming had went down in the prairies it had an effect in Ontario which is why it was so important. This is because the people in Ontario who manufactured farming equipment lost their jobs since the demand for them decreased. By them losing their job they had less money to spend on other things which lead to other industries to go out of business. -
Drought in Saskatchewan (1)
In 1937 the drought in Saskatchewan ended. The drought had a major impact on the great depression. Saskatchewan suffered the most severe drought. Because of the drought many farmers weren't able to grow crops and didn't make any income.
