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Suffagrettes
A member of an activist women's organization in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections. This Event affected the Democratic and Legal Rights because women were not allowed to vote and everyone should be able to vote for what they want. The reason it affected the Legal Rights is because the law was not being equal to everyone and was giving genders different lives. This went against that everyone should be treated fairly -
Red River Resistance
The Red River Resistance was sparked by the transfer of the vast territory of Rupert's land to the new dominion. All of this took place in the Red River Colony in Manitoba. Manitoba was formed after this event.
many of the people were Metis who occupied a corner of Rupert's Land and feared for their culture and land rights if they were to be under Canada's control. -
Indian Act
The Indian Act attempted to generalize a vast and varied population of people and assimilate them into non-Indigenous society. It forbade First Nations peoples and communities from expressing their identities through governance and culture. This act affected self expression and Equality Rights because Indigenous and First Nations people weren't able to express themselves and they were trying to make a vast population that was non-indigenous.It didn't allows First Nations to express themselves. -
Manitoba Schools Act
The Act eliminated provincial funding for Catholic schools. This prohibition would ultimately lead to the reduction of Catholic schools. As many Catholic parents were unable to pay for schooling, Immigration from Ontario had created a large English Protestant majority who resented public funding for French Catholic schools. -
Manitoba Schools Act
Responding to this pressure, the province passed the Manitoba Schools Act which created a single, non-denominational school system in English only. This act affected the Democratic Rights because it was not allowing students to believe in what ever religion they wanted and was making less catholic schools meaning that catholic kids wouldn't have a school to go to.
Didn't allow kids to freely express their Religion and do the things their religion said. -
Internment of Japanese Canadians
Approximately 12,000 people were forced to live in internment camps. The men in these camps were often separated from their families and forced to do roadwork and other physical labor. About 700 Japanese Canadian men were also sent to prisoner of war camps in Ontario, During WWII, the government needed to intern Japanese Canadians for various legitimate reasons. -
Internment of Japanese Canadians
The internment camps were established in the interior of British Columbia to remove them from the “safety zone” along the coast to prevent the possibility of sabotage.
Made men leave their families to work and the men had to live in camps that weren't very nice.