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Canada At The Turn Of The Century: The Naval Crisis
By the year 1909 Britain had a real possibility of war with Germany. Britain had the largest navy in the world and Germany was rapidly expanding their navy in order to challenge Britain. When Britain asked Canada for money to support them the French Canadians were against it they wanted Canada to build up there own navy. In the end Laurier dcided Canada should build up its own navy whch could indeed be placed under British controll in the event of an emergency. -
World War One: The Battle Of Vimy Ridge
The battle of Vimy Ridge wa won br Canadian troops on Easter Monday in 1917. It was the first time Canadians had attacked as a national unit meaning not part of British forces. The victory was the most important on the western front at the time. The canadians took over 4000 German prisoners at the cost of 3600 lives. The battle was fought in great effort by the Canadians. -
World War one: War on the home front
The war on the home front had changed many peoples lives especially womens. Women were now aloud to do many more jobs they couldn't do before. Women fought for improved housing and equal rights. Women became the head of the household for the first time during the war and women started to realize their potential to fill other roles and become more vocal about their contributions. When the war ended women were expected to give up jobs they worked so hard to get for the returning men. -
World War One: Passchendaele
The battle of Passchendaele was a month long battle that was thought to be a waste dure to the Germans taking back there territory soon afterwards. During the battle 700 Canadians died and 4000 were wounded. This battle marked the first time the Germans had used mustard gas, plus this battle was fought in a sea of mud where footing was difficult and cover was non-existent. They say the only good thing that came out of the battle was the generals that ordered the battle got replaced. -
World War One: Treaty Of Versailles
World War One - The treaty of Versailles was inteneded to humble and punish Germany. In the treaty was the War Guilt Clause which meant Germany had to admit responsibilty for causing the war. Also included was was the Reparations Clause which stated Germany had to agree to pay for the damages caused by the war. Germany lost 12% of their land, 12% of their population, 10% of their industry, and 15% agriculture. Germanys military power was weakened, -
The Roaring Twenties: Prohibition
During the Christmas season of 1926 many people were showing up to local hospitals with alcohol poisoning, ironically alcohol was banned. The deaths as investigators would shortly realize were courtesy of the U.S government. They had ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols made in the U.S. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead by the time prohibition ended in 1933 the Federal Poisoning Program had killed at least 10 000 people. -
The Roaaring Twenties: The Stock Market Crash
October 29th 1929 will forever be remembered as the day of the great stock market crash. This day was known as "Black Tuesday" because this was the start of the Depression. During the 20's many people played the stock market, buying stocks on margin (on credit) this was a dangerous practice, in September and October of 1929 prices started to fall. Many people who had bought stocks on margin tried to sell their stocks to avoid the loss. A panic started and the stock market crashed. -
World War II: The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a time where Hitler was in power, during this time his objective was to eliminate the entire race of Jewish people. Starting off there was over eleven million Jews and when Hitler was finished there was just over six million left. He did not spare one life, Hitler had made up a set of laws called the Nuremburg laws. These laws prevented the Jews from doing what they wanted to, when he captured the Jews he placed them into concentration camps to kill them. -
The Great Depression: Depression Solutions
Political parties which were made up of farmer’s teachers and labor leaders were another solution. As well as social credit something they would use to buy goods to kick start the economy. Next was Immigration/Prejudice/Racism this made it harder for people to get into Canada to save jobs for Canadians. Lastly was PM Bennett’s new deal which copied US president Roosevelt’s ideas of regulating work hours, using minimum wage, better conditions and accident insurance. -
The Great Depression: Depression Solutions (part 1)
There were 6 very clear “solutions” to help out the people. First was Relief Camps, these were a place for homeless men to go and work, eat and live. Next was Public and Private Relief this was similar to welfare but also included soup kitchens and private organizations. Next there was “On To Ottawa Trek” this was fed up relief camp workers going to Ottawa to protest working conditions but they were stopped in Regina by police and only 1 person was a loud to continue on. -
World War II: 5 Causes Of World War II
The five causes of World War II include The treaty of Versailles which was a treaty that took away from Germany in many ways like minimizing German military, also the failure of the league of nations this was to serve as an international court. Next was the rise of dictators including Togo, Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler as well as Anschluss and Appeasement, this was PM Chamberlain’s policy and violating the terms if the treaty. Also causing world war II was the invasion of Poland by Hitler. -
World War II: Japanese Internment
Japanese internment is the confinement of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia. The Canadian government had promised the return of land and finances when the Japanese were released however these assets were sold very cheaply at auctions. In 1988 after everything had been said and done the Canadian government had given a formal apology and announced the details of the compensation offered to the Japanese citizens that were affected by the mistake of the Canadians. -
World War II: Invasion Of Normandy
The Normandy invasion began on June 6th at 6:30 am with overnight parachuting and glider landings, massive air attacks and naval bombardments. There were five beaches where the battle took place, the beaches are Juno, Sword, Omaha, Utah, and Gold.The landings were conducted in two phases an airborne assault landing of 24,000 British, American and Canadian airborne troops shortly after midnight, and an amphibious landing of allied infantry and armoured divisions on the coast of France. -
Post War Canada
The Second World War brought many changes to Canada like the government which was more centralized during the war, and it remained so afterwards. The federal government also began to adopt social welfare policies, often borrowed from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, which had introduced such policies in the western provinces even before the war. These included hospital insurance, old-age pensions, and veterans' pensions. -
The Seventies: Terry Fox
across Canada to raise money for cancer research. Terry had two targets they were to run 8 000 km across Canada and to raise one dollar for every Canadian he would run 42 km a day five days a week for about seven to eight months. He started in St. Johns newfoundland at 4:30 am and would run all day long. At first not many people knew about his journey but nearing the end thousands came out to watch. -
The Sixties: The Quiet revolution
The Quiet Revolution was a period of rapid change experienced in Québec from 1960 to 1966. From 1960-61 to 1966-67, the budget grew from $745 million to $2.1 billion. The development of government institutions and the vastly increased role of the state in the province's economic, social and cultural life unleashed forces that would have major consequences. -
Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war. The soviet union had placed missiles in Cuba aimed at the USA, when the USA discovered these missiles Cuba demanded all offensive weapons be removed and declared that any missile strike would contribute to an act of war. Tension built when a US spy plane was shot at during a mission over Cuba. After a lot of negotiation while the world waited soviets president agreed to US presidents demands. -
The Sixties: Flag Dispute
The Great Canadian Flag Debate was when a new design for the national flag of Canada was chosen. Although the flag debate had been going on for a long time prior, it officially began on June 15, 1964, when Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson proposed his plans for a new flag in the House of Commons. It lasted more than six months. The debate over the new Canadian flag was ended by closure on December 15, 1964. It resulted in the adoption of the "Maple Leaf flag" as the Canadian national flag. -
The Eighty's: Immigraton
The immigrtion act of 1990 made it much more difficult for people to make it into Canada, there was alot more rules and regulations that had to be followeed. Also introduced was a set of catagories that determined your entry to Canada. These catagories included things like age, occupation, expirence, personality, work expirence, education and family. \the people were also split up into 3 classes. These classes wre the reffugee class the buisness/independent class and the family class. -
The Ninety's: Peacekeeping
The United Nations had many peacekeeping missions through out the years. Including many accomplishments and many failures, Some of the failures were not fault of the untied nations but by the lack of will to change. One of their missions was to somalia where they attempted to solve some of the problems caused by the civil war out break in 1991. Of the Somali population of 4.5 million people, over half were in danger of starvation and disease.
