Canada's Growing Autonomy

By 123Zaniyah

  • The Battle of Vimy Ridge

    The Battle of Vimy Ridge
    Vimy ridge’s capture by the canadians was essential to the advances by the british army to the south Canadians advanced behind a “creeping barrage” which was an intense allied artillery fire that moved at a set rate and was timed to the minute.

  • The Last 100 Days

    The Last 100 Days
    The name, “Canada’s Hundred Days”, was given due to the significant contributions (countless successful attacks/advances) and role Canada played during that time

  • The Chanak Affair

    The Chanak Affair
    • Prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's first major foreign policy test -Turkish forces were threatening British troops stationed in Turkey after WWI
    • King decided to not automatically send Canadian troops to aid Britain
    • Canada is starting to take on a independence voice in World Affairs by doing so -King's Cabinet agreed that only Parliament could decide such matters. By the time Parliament could address the matter, however, the crisis in Turkey had passed.

  • The Halibut Treaty

    The Halibut Treaty
    • Canadian-American agreement on fishing rights in the pacific ocean
    • The first treaty independently negotiated and signed by the Canadian government
    • Another step closer to semi independence from Britain
    • The Halibut Treaty came about as the result of diminishing halibut stocks in the North Pacific, in fishing grounds shared by both Canada and the United States. -The British wished to sign the treaty along with Canada -PM king said this was solely the concern of Canada and US (No Brits here)

  • The King-Byng Crisis

    The King-Byng Crisis
    • The King-Byng Affair was a 1926 Canadian constitutional crisis putting the powers of a prime minister against the powers of a governor general.

  • The Balfour Report

    The Balfour Report
    • The Balfour Report of 1926 declared that Britain and its Dominions were constitutionally equal to each other.
    • It was a landmark document confirming Canada as a fully independent country, united with Britain and the other Dominions through the Commonwealth.
    • On 1 July 1867, the Dominion of Canada was established. It comprised a union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Province of Canada.
    • The Dominion had its own Parliament,

  • The Statute of Westminster

    The Statute of Westminster
    • British law clarifying the powers of Canada's Parliament and those of the other Commonwealth Dominions.
    • It granted these former colonies full legal freedom except in those areas where they chose to remain subordinate to Britain. -the Statute of WM was passed by Brit Parliament, finalizing the dominions legislative independence