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Winnipeg General Strike
Who: Electrical workers, water works employees and office workers
What: The Winnipeg General Strike
When: 15 May-25 June 1919
Where: City Council in Winnipeg
Why: Massive unemployment and inflation
How: When negotiations broke down between management and labour in the building and metal trades, the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council called a general strike -
Group Of Seven
Who: a group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s
What: They are a group of artists
When: The Group of Seven were a group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s
Where: Canada
Why: They were famous because they are good
How: The Group of Seven was strongly influenced by European Impressionism of the late nineteenth century in the Montmartre district of Paris. -
Spanish Flu
Who: The Spanish Flu killed between 50 and 100 million people
What: one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history
When: the pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920
Where: it was global wide
Why: This disease killed a lot of people because it was a virus and they didn't have advance medical health care back then.
How: -
Foster Hewitt & Hockey Night in Canada
Who: Foster William Hewitt
What: Foster was a Canadian radio broadcaster most famous for his play-by-play calls for Hockey Night in Canada
When: February 16 1923
Where: Canada
Why: He was an excellent reporter that is why he lasted 40 years.
How: Hewitt was Canada's premier hockey play-by-play broadcaster. -
Prime Minister: Mackenzie King
when: born Dec. 17, 1874, Berlin, Ont., Can. — died July 22, 1950, Kingsmere, Que
Who: William Lyon Mackenzie King -the longest serving prime minister of Canada
Why/How: Hes in power for a long time because he had remarkable skills that were exactly appropriate to Canada's needs
What: he was deputy minister of labour -Canada's first minister of labour - leader of liberal party before becoming a prime minister
Where: Canada -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Who: The Chinese
What: Banned Chinese immigrants from entering Canada
When: It went into effect on July 1st, 1923
Where: Canada and China
Why: They don't like Chinese People
How: They pulled an act -
RCAF
Who:
What: Royal Canadian Air Force
When: 1924 until 1968
Where:Canada
Why: changed to one of a military nature in Canada
How: changed to one of a military nature -
Black Tuesday
Who:
What: The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (stock market crash)
When: October 1929
Where: United States
Why:
How: The crash began a 10-year economic slump that affected all the Western industrialized countries -
R.B. Bennett
Who: Richard Bedford Bennett
What: 11th Prime Minister of Canada
When: from August 7, 1930, to October 23, 1935
Where: Canada
Why: He was the prime minister during the worst years of the Great Depression
How: He beat Mackenzie King in the elections -
Person’s Case
Who: Edwards v. Canada
What: is a famous Canadian and British constitutional case where it was first decided that women were eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate
When: 1930
Where: Canada
Why: They wanted rights for women
How: went all the way to the Imperial Privy Council -
Statute of Westminster
Who: N/A
What: an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
When: 1931
Where: Britian's colonies
Why: it marked the effective legislative independence of these countries
How: it sets the basis for the continuing relationship between the Commonwealth realms and the Crown -
New Deal
Who: Franklin Delano Roosevelt,President of the United States
What:: a series of economic programs
When: 1933-1938
Where: United States
Why: responses to the Great Depression
How: relief for the unemployed and poor; recovery of the economy to normal levels -
CBC- Canadian Broadcasting Company
Who: Canadian Broadcasting Company
What: CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada
When: 1929
Where: Canada
Why: Aird Commission on public broadcasting recommended the creation of a national radio broadcast network
How: The CRBC took over a network of radio stations formerly set up by a federal Crown corporation, the Canadian National Railway
