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Residential Schools
- This was a political/social change.
- Rank: -2
- This started in 1883 and lasted throughout the war. The residential schools were created to achieve one thing: "To kill the Indian in the child." The government created these schools to turn the children into "normal people". The end goal was to keep doing this to assimilate every indigenous child in Canada in hopes to wipe out the next generation of Aboriginal culture.
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Chinese Head Tax
- This is a Social/Political Change
- Rank: -1 (Started in 1885, its final tax change was in 1903.) The purpose of this tax was to slow down the number of Chinese immigrants coming into the Country. It started off at $50 when it was first created, then it increased by 1000% in 1903, with the final tax adjustment of $500.
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Robert Borden becomes Prime Minister of Canada
- This is a Political Change.
- Rank: -1 Sir Robert Borden became the 8th Prim Minister of Canada in 1911. He is most known for his leadership during the First World War. He is also known for the Acts he put in place during the war, which many people, especially the French-Canadians, weren't happy with.
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Canada "Declares" War
- This is a Social/Economic Change
- Rank: -1 When the British officially declared war, Canada was also automatically entered in the war, since we were still under British rule. Canada came into the war with a small army as well as ill-prepared.
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The War-Measures Act
- This is a Social/Political Change.
- Rank: -1.5 Because of the situation, the Prime Minister enacted the War-Measures Act to gain more control over Canada than before. Sadly, the War-Measures Act did more harm than good. An example of this is when the Prime Minister held all people of enemy countries in prison, and/or put to work. This was done for "safety reasons", even if these people had nothing malicious planned.
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Women on the home front while men fight in the war.
- This is a social change.
- Rank: -1 While men had to fight in the war, women had to work factory jobs in order to keep military supplies ready for when it's needed. The issue though is that the workplace was unsafe. Many women fell ill because of the lack of ventilation. Plus, they had to stay in this environment for long hours, with very little breaks. Women couldn't even complain about the workplace, because either they would be ignored by their boss, or fired on the spot.
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Jeremiah Jones
- This is a social change.
- Rank: +1.5 Jeremiah Jones was a Black Canadian Soldier who fought in WWI. He became a Canadian war hero when he saved his fellow troops, by blowing up an enemy who was at a Gun emplacement. He proved a Black Man's worth in a White Army. In 2010, he was given the Canadian Forces Distinguished Service Medallion for his actions 60 years after he had died.
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The Military Service Act/Conscription Crisis
- This was a social change and political change.
- Rank -2 Prime Minister Robert Borden created an act called the Military Service Act. This forced every healthy man between the ages of 20-45 to fight in the war. The French-Canadians heard the news, and they got furious. So begins the Conscription Debate. The French felt that they had no loyalty to the British nor France, so why should they fight? In the end, the law was passed, and recruitment sheets were sent out.
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Billy Bishop
- This was a social change.
- Rank +1.5 (The date provided is the date where he got the recognized for his skills in the war and got awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He served all 4 years in WWI.) Billy Bishop was one of the best pilots overall in World War 1. He shot down 72 enemy aircraft during the war. Because of his ACE flying skills, he gave Canada the recognition it needed, which influenced the decision of creating Canada's very own Air Force.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act
- This is a social change,
- Rank: -2 After the Chinese Head Tax/Chinese Immigration Act was abolished in 1923, a new Act was put in place to replace the old one. This was called the Chinese Exclusion Act. This act restricted all Chinese admission to Canada.
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The Famous Five
- This is a social change, as well as a political change.
- Rank: +2 These 5 women banded together to fight the Senate to recognize women as people. The first time in 1927 they tried to challenge the Supreme Court of Canada, but sadly the challenge was unsuccessful. Two years later, they went to the judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, which was still the highest Court of Appeal for Canada, which declared that both men and women are included in the word, "persons".
