History Unit 1 TimeLine timeline.

Emily Stowe started the campaign for suffrage in 1870. 1900 other leaders continued to fight for rights to vote and other causes such as woman's right to run for Senate. 1918 women could vote in provincial elections in 6 provinces.1919 women's right to run for Parliament was recognized. 1921 Agnes Macphail was Canada's first woman elected to parliament, she ran for the progressive party. This shaped Canada because it was the beginning of women starting to get the equal rights they deserved.

There was violence between Canadian new comers and First Nations people who tried to keep the new comers from taking their territory. The first Nations were granted reserves which were land set aside for only their use. Then Parliament passed the Indian act in 1876 which granted the government almost full control over the lives of the people on the reserves. Canada's relationship with First Nations peoples is one we will forever be trying to mend, this act effected so many First Nations people.

Influenza spread quickly in WW1 in the harsh conditions of the trenches. Wounded soldiers brought it back with them and before the war had end it spread across Canada. The flu became a global pandemic. Canada lost 50 000 citizens to this disease and it drastically impacted the Canadian economy.

Winnipeg's building trade union wet on strike when their employers refused to negotiate wage increase. Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council called for a city-wide strike to support the strikers. The strike closed factories & stores. The Citizens Committee formed and opposing side, they hired volunteers to replace workers & fired officers who refused to pledge not to join a strike. After a lot of chaos, a law formed that required employers to recognize the rights of workers to bargain collectively.

The Immigration Act barred people from countries that had sided with the Central Powers in WW1, those who were illiterate or held socialist or communist beliefs, and people who had "peculiar customs, habits, modes of life, and methods of holding property." In 1920 the situation improved when railway and steamship companies persuaded the government to loosen restrictions on immigration from Europe.

More Canadians bought radios as the technology improved and the prices lowered. By 1928 Canadian radio programs existed but 80% of programs where from the USA. President Mackenzie King did the first cross-country radio broadcast, he was impressed with this new way to communicate across the country and continued to use the radio. This helped to shape how communication across Canada developed.

In 1920 parliament changed the Indian act that required all children between the ages of 7-15 to go to residential school. Many were set thousands of km away from their families. Teachers where cruel. By 1931, 80 school opened across Canada and 15 000 Aboriginal students attended. This was a horrible thing that happened to Indigenous people and really changed our country and damaged the relationship we could've had with Indigenous people, and Canada will forever be apologizing.

Germany failed to prosper after hyper inflations and had little love for the democratic political system. Poverty was widespread and people were openly frustrated when the Depression started in 1929, and the situation became worse. Germany wanted a leader who could fix their countries political and economic troubles.1920, Hitler joined a small new political party known as the Nazis, by 1921 became their leader. His rise to power continued from there and the rise of fascism started in Germany.

This law meant that male workers already in Canada could not bring their wives and children. Fewer than 50 Chinese immigrants were allowed to Canada between 1923-1947. This caused a large amount of male Chinese men in Canada, with a lot of poverty in China as a result of women being left to raise the family alone.

The dial hand phone was introduced in 1924 and the one piece handset in 1927. At first only the wealthy could afford phones but over time they became more affordable and were promoted as essential to modern life. This helped Canadians to contact people all across Canada and the phone is a product that is continuing to develop today.

By 1929 most Canadian provinces had passed laws banning children under 14 from working in factories and mines. By 1931 83 percent of children had attended school for any period of time. During the Depression families often relied on their children's income.

Most believe that the 1929 stock market crash was the most immediate cause of the Great Depression. October 4 the Toronto stock exchange lost 200 million dollars in value. On Oct 28, the value of shares on the Toronto stock exchange fell by 1 million dollars a minute. The next day known as Black Tuesday stock continued to plummet as sellers desperately tried to cut their losses. This caused many to lose money and were very poor and starving, businesses closed, many were out of work.

2000 unemployed trekkers had reached Regina to protest. Bennet wanted to stop them so he agreed to meet the trekkers leader in Ottawa while the rest stayed in Regina. The Ottawa meeting didn't resolve anything. Bennet insisted there was nothing wrong with relief camps and that the trek leaders were communist agitators. The RCMP tried to arrest the trek leader on a public holiday and many citizens joined the trekkers. Chaos broke out. In the 1935 election the relief camps were closed.

Vast area of farmland were hit with drought, dust storms and high temperatures. Summer of 1936 temperatures climbed to over 38 degrees C and no rain fell. Dust storms blew through and covered roads, houses and fields. When the winds died down swarms of grasshoppers ate wheat still standing. In that one year, 14 000 farmers had no crops to harvest and had no money.

President Mackenzie King was convinced that allowing Jewish immigrants would threaten national unity, so he opposed all immigration. In 1939, the passenger liner St. Louis carried 900 Jews trying to escape Nazi persecution. They were refused by Cuba, and turned to the USA and Canada for help but were forced to sail back, and some were allowed into other European countries that were taken over by Germany in WW2, more than half the passengers where eventually killed by the Nazis.