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Prohibition
The law forbidding the sale of alcohol for reasons such as health problems, increase in crime, urban poverty and domestic violence. -
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Events After the War
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WInnipeg General Strike
A massive strike in 1919, in Winnipeg, Manitoba of employees who believed they were working too long for too little, with bad working conditions. -
Spanish Influenza
This flu killed more people than the great war did as it spread worldwide, killing the infected within hours and spreading to others. -
Group of Seven
Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s consisting of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley. -
Insulin
A hormone that turns glucose to glycogen in your body, that diabetics lack. Canadian Scientists Fredrick Banting and Charles Best discovered they could take this hormone and put it into an injection, saving many lives, in 1922. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in 1923, meant that every Chinese person in Canada, citizen or not, was required to register with government within 12 months of the introduction of this new law. -
RCAF
Royal Canadian Air Force was the air force of Canada from 1924-1968, when 3 branches of military merged into the Canadian Forces. -
CBC
Canadian Broadcasting Company started broadcasting in 1929 as CRBC, as the first Canadian coast to coast broadcast system. -
Person’s Case
The interrogation of women into the workplace. -
Black Tuesday
stocks lost 13% of value. It is known as the first day of the great depression. -
Prime Minister: R.B. Bennett
Richard Bedford Bennett was Prime Minister of Canada from August 7th, 1930, October 23, 1935. -
Five Cent Speech
In the late 1920’s, the King announced that he would not even give a nickel to someone who lost their job or were asking for relief payments. -
Statute of Westminster
commonwealth countries were granted independence from Britain. -
On to Ottawa Trek
1935, a social movement or unemployed men protesting about conditions in federal relief camps across Western Canada. -
SS. St. Louis
A ship that set sail May 13th, 1939, carrying over 900 Jewish refugees and sailed a route of Hamburg to Halifax, Nova Scotia and New York.
