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Invention: Automobiles In Canada
Automobiles were invented far before 1913, but 1913 was the year in Canada when cars became more mainstream with around 50,000 vehicles in Canada. The Ford Motor Company of Canada kick started the automobile industry in Canada in 1904. The automotive industry created many jobs for Canadians and became the world's second largest car producer at the time. It is now the world's eighth largest automobile and third largest exporter. These jobs and exports are very important to Canadian citizens. -
Spanish Flu Starts
This post world war one disease wiped out around 50,000 Canadians. It was particularly good at taking out healthy and strong people. Some survivors of this disease went on to develop Parkinsonian syndrome after many years. The Spanish Flu did bring some good to Canada though. The federal Department of Health, something we still have today, was created in 1919 due to the Spanish Flu. This disease also brought Canada together by getting everyone on board to help prevent the spread disease. -
WW1 Armistice
This marked the end of World War One. The big factor for Canada in this is when Robert Borden successfully argued that Canada's efforts in the war should give them a seat at the Paris Peace Conference.This is the first time Canada was ever recognized as its own nation that should be given respect. This helped form the independent country that we have today. -
Indian Act Changes
In 1920 the Indian Act was changed to make is so all status Indian children were forced to go to residential schools. The children had to live at these schools and were taught European values. They couldn't do any Indian customs and were forbidden from speaking their native language. The government wanted to 'kill the Indian in the child'. Residential schools are very controversial today due to the poor treatment of children in them. Many Prime Ministers have apologized for these schools. -
Spanish Flu Ends
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Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King: Liberal Party (First Term)
William Lyon Mackenzie King was Prime Minister a total three years spanning from 1921 to 1948. He helped guide Canada through the roaring twenties, great depression, and world war two.
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Halibut Treaty
This is the first treaty that Canada negotiated and signed by its self.
It was created to protect halibut off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. Prime Minister King was determined to not let Britain have a foot in on signing this deal he called only between Canada and the US. Britain didn't want to give up its right to sign deals for Canada but King threatened to set up a representative in Washington to sign the deal and Britain backed off. Canada proved its self as good deal makers. -
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Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King: Liberal Party (Second Term)
In 1940 King introduced unemployment insurance to please the people who were scared the depression would come back after the war.
In 1927 King introduced the Old-Age Pension it Canada. The pensions were funded together by the federal government and provincial governments. British people who had lived in Canada for twenty or more years and over the age of seventy could also qualify for the pension. The pension paid up to twenty dollars a month. One more King achievement on the next slide. -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
According to many, this is what started the great depression. When people started to sell their stocks to cash a profit, everyone started following suit due to the stock prices going down. On Tuesday, October, 29th, 1929 the New York Stock Exchange collapsed followed by the collapse of the Montreal and Toronto Exchanges on the same day. This has forever been a lesson to Canadians and people everywhere that you must be careful with stocks and keep a sharp eye on the stock market. -
Five Cent Speech
Prime Minister King stated he would not give five cents to any provincial governments with a conservative leadership in order to help their citizens. This foul remark got King voted out of office and Richard Bedford Bennett voted in. Although King would assume office again in 1935, this was a message to all politicians that they cannot get away with everything they say. This changed the course of Canadian politics forever instilling political correctness in candidates running for office. -
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Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett: Conservative Party
Bennett was prime minister for one term during the great depression.
The only achievements Bennett made were ones that seemed to run him out of office. Bennett's New Deal was seen as nothing but pandering to the Canadian citizens, people were not fond of his relief camps that were made for single men, and all of his campaign promises were not executed due to the difficulty of the depression. He became a joke of a Prime Minister and the citizens let him know that in the next election. -
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Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King: Liberal Party (Third Term)
Not all of King's achievements were positive. King had a background in economics, but when the depression hit he would not take it seriously. He did not think that the depression would hit Canada very hard and it cost him and Canada. After he refused to provide federal funding to provinces struggling with unemployment, it was the last straw and he lost the next federal election to Conservative leader Richard Bedford Bennett. -
Keynesian Economics Introduced
Introduced by British economist John Keynes, Keynesian economics is a philosophy that governments should borrow money to get out of the great deprression. They would repay all of the debt when the economy got stable and they were able to. This philosophy is still used today in Canada by some politicians. -
Invention: CBC/Radio-Canada is created
Although radio had been around for several years in Canada, when CBC was formed it changed Canadian entertainment forever. It brought us Hockey Night In Canada allowing all of Canada to connect through the great sport of hockey. Many Canadians today still watch and listen to CBC to get their news, watch their favorite shows, and of course, watch hockey.
