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Canadian history
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Women fight to win the vote
January 28, 1916. Manitoba gives women the right to vote provincially. -
Battle of Vimy Ridge
By April 1917, both French and British troops had tried and failed to capture Vimy Ridge. -
spanish FLU Epidemic killed 50 000 Canadians
The pandemic lasted from June 1918 to December 1920,spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. Between 50 and 100 million died, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. -
Canada at the Peace Table
Canada at the Peace Table, When World War I officially ended on November 11, 1918, Canadians had changed. They were no longer willing to allow English to speak for them. -
The Winnipeg General Strike
On May 15, 1919, 30 000 Winnipeg workers walked off the job at 11 a.m. -
XWA in montreal began the first experimental radio broadcasts in Canada
In 1919, station XWA---eXperimental Wireless Apparatus---- in Montreal began the first experimental radio broadcasts in Canada, but it would be the early 1920s before stations began broadcasting in other cities. -
Prohibition in the United States
During this time, some Canadian make a lot of money from smuggling alcohol into the United States. -
Frederick Banting and Charles Best
In January 1922, the team injected insulin into Leonard Thompson, a 14-year-old with diabetes. He improved immediately. -
The Dust Bowl
In 1929, a terrible drought began. It lasted nearly 10 years. Crops dried up and the soil turned to dust. The wind blew away this dry soil.Nearly 14 000 Canadian farms were abandoned during the Depression. -
Black Thursday
On Thursday, October 24, 1929, wheat prices on the Winnipeg Grain EXchange plummeted. Everyone wanted to sell their wheat but few wanted to buy. Millions of dollars in profits were lost as people tried to cut their losses by selling wheat. The day became known as Black Thursday -
World War II Begins
On September 10, Canada declared war independently. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, and Canada declares war on Japan. -
Hong Kong
In september 1941, Britain realized that Japan was about to join the Axis Powers.The Canadian force arrived in Hong Kong in mid-November.After japan declared war by attacking the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. -
Dieppe
On August 19, 1942, Canadian troop experienced another terrible loss in the raid on the seaport of Dieppe, France.
The sacrifice was worthwhile because the raid gave military planners important information that was critical to the success of the 1944 D-Day -
The Invasion of Normandy
On June 6, 1944, 200 kilometres west of Calais on the beaches of the French province of Normandy.The incasion force fight to Germans... -
Coldest country
Canada's record cold temperature is set in Snag, Yukon Territory, when the mercury plunged to -63 degrees Celcius, solidifying Canadian reputation as one of the coldest country in the world. -
War Tax Act
The Income Tax Act is enacted, taking effect for the 1949 and subsequent taxation years. After numerous amendments to the Income War Tax Act introduced in 1917, the new act largely reworded and codified the former law with little change in actual policy. -
Gas line
The last weld is completed on the TransCanada Pipeline, a 2 290 kilometer, $375 million gas line that took twenty-eight months to build and ran from Burstall, Saskatchewan, to Kapuskasing, Ontario. Capable of delivering more than nine billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, the project is compared to the building of the transcontinental railway in the 19th century. -
FLQ
The FLQ, a terrorist group dedicated to revolution to establish an independent Quebec, explodes bombs in Montreal. -
Expo '67 in Montréal.
World attention is turned to Expo '67 in Montréal. -
October Crisis
British trade commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by the FLQ, precipitating the October Crisis. -
General Strike
Organized by the Canadian Labor Congress to oppose wage controls, the Day of Protest was the Canada's first national general strike and saw more than one million workers leaving their jobs for a day. -
O Canada
O Canada is officially adopted as Canada's national anthem -
Terry Fox
Terry Fox dies. Minus one leg already lost to cancer, Fox attempted to run across Canada in 1980 in his Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research. But in September, near Thunder Bay, Ontario, cancer struck again and the run was called off. By the time of his death $24 million was raised for his cancer research fund. Every September, runs are held in Canada and around the world to keep Fox's memory alive and also raising fund for the cancer research. Terry Fox in one of the most beloved -
Free trade
After a federal election fought over the issue of free trade, the free-trade agreement between Canada and the United States comes into effect, gradually ending controls on trade and investment between the two countries.
