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The Interwar years
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Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu was an epidemic after the veterans returned home from WWII. The Spanish Flu killed over 100 million people world wide. The origin of the Spanish Flu is not known but it is thought to have originated in China. The Spanish flu became so big because of the mass amounts of troops coming back home helped spread the flu more quickly -
Winnipeg General Strike
The Winnipeg General Strike was one of the biggest strikes in Canadian history. Over 30,000 workers went on strike because of the high unemployment rates after WWI. On June 26th the strike was stopped due to the high levels of violence and the workers went back to there job with no pay increase. -
Treaty of Versailles
On the 28th of June 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed. The Treaty of Versailles was one of the treaties signed at the end of World War 1; it ended the war with the allies and Germany.The Treaty of Versailles was signed exactly 5 years after the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. -
League of Indians
The League of Indians was formed on the 2nd of September 1919 in Ontario by a Frederick Ogilvie Loft. The reason for the League of Indians was to stop problems regarding natives like the mistreatment of them and the respect of there land. -
The Group of Seven
The Group of Seven was a group of Canadian landscape artists founded in the 1920's the original members consisted of Franklin Carmicheal, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. Macdonald and F.H. Varley. The Group of Seven was succeeded by the Group of Painters in the 1930's. The Group mostly painted nature landscape pictures of Canada. -
Prohibition
Prohibition was a law passed on the 16th of January 1920 banning the sales of alcohol across Canada. The government believed that alcohol was the main reason for crime. Along with Prohibition came "Bootlegging" witch is where people would illegally sell alcohol. The law was abolished because it created allot of illegal drinking establishments. -
Mackenzie King Becomes Prime minister
On December 29th 1921 Mackenzie King becomes Prime minister of Canada. Mackenzie King holds the record for longest lasting prime minister lasting for a total of 22 years. -
The Discovery of Insulin
Insulin the life saving discovery for diabetes was discovered by Frederick Banting and Charles Best working at the University of Toronto. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed on the first of July 1923 and it would ban all Chinese immigrants from coming to Canada with the exception of merchants, students and diplomats. A total of 8 Chinese immigrants came to Canada between 1923-1947. -
The Five Cent Speech
On the first of January 1928 Mackenzie King gave the "five cent speech". He stated that he would not give five cents to anyone who lost there job or was asking for relief payments. -
Great Depression
In the year 1929 one of the most severe economic disasters of all time, it was the biggest depression in the 20th century. Although the Great depression is mostly regarded as something in the US Canada still suffered greatly from the depression, this made Canada have a very strict immigration policy for a while -
The Persons' Case
The Persons' Case was a case where 5 women argued with the government that women would be called "people". The supreme court of Canada replied with a "no". Then they appealed to the British Privy Council witch overthrew the Supreme Court and women were now considered "people". -
Black Tuesday
On Tuesday October 29th, 1929, Wall Street witnessed a major economic crash. This affected all industrialized western countries. Black Tuesday along with The Great Depression created one of the biggest financial crises of all time. The "Roaring Twenties" were destroyed by Black Tuesday. -
R.B. Bennett Becomes Prime minister
R.B. Bennett Becomes Prime minister on the 7th of August 1930
He won the election because of his promises to stop the depression. However he did not back those promises up and all of his attempts were a failure. He was replaced by the liberal party -
Statute of Westminster
The Statute of Westminster was a act put in place by the British government freeing Canada and from the domain status, along with other British domains. -
The "New Deal"
The "New Deal" was an attempt by Richard Bennett the Prime minister then to bring Canada out of the depression by instituting a new tax and changing the wage laws. This failed and he was preplaced by the liberal party. -
On to Ottawa Trek
The Great Depression Truly destroyed Canadian economy. The On to Ottawa Trek began when thousands of people were protesting for there lost jobs. They decided to take there protest to the federal government so on June 3rd 1935 hundreds of trains were taking people to Ottawa. In Ottawa it was negotiated that the protesters would stay in Regina
