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Canada 1914-1929
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Canada goes to World War 1
Canada goes to world war one across the Atlantic joining the allies powers to go to war against the Germans and Austro-Hungary empire in trench war fare. -
Halifax Explosion
The tragedy in Halifax that took 2000 Canadians lives due to two boats crashing into each other and left 12000 buildings damaged, this lead to a better safety measures and affect the we storage materials that could be dangerous -
Canada Prohibition
Canada has had a law that made drinking alcohol illegal in Canada as it was linked to marriage problems including spouse abuse, criminal activities and be irresponsible, this did get repealed in 1920 as the government could tax it and moderate the alcohol -
Canada Armistice
Canada and the allies won the war therefore they are out of war and they can bring many Canadians home from Europe as heroes who kept our freedom and risked their life for us. -
Winnipeg General Strike
The strike happened as 30,000 people lost their job the strike was consider as a way to fight back for so many layoffs the consequences were transits, factories and many more vital services were shut down and two protesters died and many more had injuries -
Aboriginal issues
In 1920 many issues with first nation people erupted as they wanted to vote the government would allow this if they could get their land in return, during the whole year their was propositions trying to get a vote and keep their land at the same time was a real struggle for the first nation people due to strict negations -
First use of insulin
In Toronto Sir Frederick G Banting tried out the first use of insulin to help regulate your blood sugar, by 1923 this proud invention was used globally and was available to the public -
William Treaty
This treaty was signed by the first nation people exchanging 20,000 square km of land for a one time intal payment which ripped off the first nation people and took their land for a very unfair price -
BalaFour Declaration
This declaration stated that Canada could now become a independent self governing nation not fully ruled by Great Brittan any more this gave Canada more political control on its self which felt like freedom. -
Peoples act
This act lead to woman being able to run in senate which was a big step forward as they influenced the next election by 52% this showed Canad going in the right direction
