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Women's Roles in The Great Depression (part one)
During these times, work was typically divided by gender, with women doing more service work, such as being a teacher, nurse, cleric, ect, and males doing more labour like steel production. Women’s jobs suffered a lot during the Great Depression faced things such as lowered pay scales, because employers didn’t value these jobs as much as other, more “important” ones that men do. -
Women's Roles in The Great Depression (part two)
Despite this, during the great depression, male employment rates lowered while women’s highered. This still didn’t affect women’s rights in the workplace until a lot later in society. This photo shows women working as seamstresses or other at home jobs, which was very common. -
Continuity and Change - Women's Roles in The Great Depression
Now, women can work in any field that they want to. They can get any type of education they want, and have almost as much rights and freedoms as men get. Obviously certain fields of work aren’t as welcoming to women for sexist and old fashioned reasons and beliefs, but society has gotten a lot more progressive since the Great Depression. -
Indigenous People's Contributions to World War 2 (part one)
Many Indigenous people weren’t allowed to fight in the Second World War. Until 1942 and 1943, the RCAF and the RCN said that volunteers had to be “of white and European descent”, so Indigenous people were excluded from that, as well as other minorities. Inadequate healthcare and schooling in Indigenous communities affected their ability to meet the strict standards of education for the war. Eventually, 3090 Indigenous soldiers enlisted in the Canadian military for WW2. -
Indigenous People's Contributions to World War 2 (part two)
Status Indians were included in mandatory military training after France surrendered in 1940. Indigenous people contributed a lot to war efforts, but never received recognition for their actions. Coming home from the war, Indigenous soldiers expected to be treated differently, but the prejudice and discrimination still continued despite their help. -
Continuity and Change - Indigenous People's Contribution to the War
Things have changed since then. Now that times have progressed and many people are starting to unlearn their discriminatory mindset towards Indigenous people, there is a lot less prejudice. Residential schools continued after the war and into 1996, when the last one closed. This is an example of how things stayed the same regarding Indigenous rights for a while after this time period. It took far too long for Indigenous people to be recognized as anything other than their skin or descent. -
The Holocaust
Hitler being in power greatly affected Jewish people’s businesses, financial security, and eventually their lives. At the time of Hitler’s power, Jewish people were greatly discriminated against. The Holocaust happened during WW2, which consisted of persecution and murder of Jewish people. Nazis killed approximately 6 million Jews using things such as concentration camps and mass shootings to kill them off. The photo shows young children being held in said concentration camps. -
Continuity and Change - The Holocaust
Some things have stayed the same regarding Jewish people, but for the most part, Canada apologized and tried to fix or aid these actions by turning old concentration camps into museums to educate and show how terribly Jewish people were treated while Hitler was in power during WWII. -
Women's Roles in WWII
During WW2, the first women’s services were created and 50 000 Canadian women were enlisted in the air force or navy. They started as clerics, cooks, seamstresses, or other home defence and support roles but eventually became things like drivers, mechanics, and parachute riggers. They also played an important role in espionage and solving coded messages. Women were more important than they got credit for, since sexism and gender roles were still very set into society's standards. -
Continuity and Change - Women in WWII
Although some people still agree with the old fashioned beliefs and standards for women, a lot of people realized that just because someone is female, it doenst make them any less able. Women can do the same things that men can, and even though some people may not have noticed or acknowledged it, women who enlisted in the war proved that. -
Camp Ipperwash
The Canadian federal government asked the Stoney Point First Nations to surrender their line so that they could build a training camp on the reserve. When the people who lived on the reserve refused to give up their land, they were given $50 000 in compensation and were relocated to a nearby reserve called Kettle Point. The Stoney Point reserve unfairly remained a training camp even though the government promised that the First Nations would have their land returned to them. -
Continuity and Change - Camp Ipperwash
Canada has a history of unfairly stealing Indigenous people's land. This happened for years, the Ipperwash Camp being just one example out of many instances. An example of change is now there is an official land acknowledgement done at schools or other places, where we recognize that the land we are standing on doesn't belong to us and was originally the home to Indigenous people. -
Chinese Canadians
From 1923 to 1947, Chinese people weren't allowed to immigrate to Canada. There were head taxes for Chinese people who were already in Canada throughout the 1900s. The cost of this head tax made bringing a wife or children to Canada more expensive for these people, so a large majority of Chinese immigrants in Canada were male. A lot of racism and discrimination took place during these times, and Chinese immigrants were a big target for it. The photo shows a document of a Chinese man's head tax. -
Continuity and Change - Chinese Canadians
Racism is still a very apparent issue in many places such as Canada, but it definitely has improved. Eventually, the head tax was removed and Chinese Canadians started to be let into the country.