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Winnepeg General Strike
In March, 1919 labour leaders gathered together to make one big union. But on May 15, 1919 in Winnipeg when negotiations broke out between labour and management in the building and metal trades, the Winnipeg Labour and Trades Council also known as the WLTC ended up calling a general strike. -
Bloody Saturday
June 21, 1919 was the 37 day of the Winnipeg General strike, but was by far the most remembered day of the whole strike, as it is remembered as Bloody Saturday. June 21st was the day were violence erupted, a huge crowd gathered to watch the parade of people protesting the arrest of the strike leaders, they flipped over a car and burned it, the Mayer started to fear so he called in the Mounted Police who came in with there guns and killed 2 people, injured 27, and arrested around 100 people. -
Group Of Seven
The Group of Seven was created in the 1920 as an organization of self proclaimed modern artists, in addition to Emily Carr, David Milne and Tom Thompson, the group of seven were considered the most important artist of the twentieth century, there art work was different from most other artist, they used bright colours, tactical paint handling, and simple but very dynamic forms and they were all based off of Canadian landscapes -
Golden Age of Sports
The Golden Age of Sports was during the beginning The 1920s as this was when games like Baseball were starting to be broadcast on radio which aloud people to gather around and listen to the games commentary, during this Golden Age it also brought up a lot of new celebs in the pro level spectrum such as Babe Ruth who lead the Yankees to a lot of success in his time. -
Canada Joins The League of Nations
January 10 1920 was the official date at which Canada became one of the founding members of The League of Nations, the League of Nations was abbreviated as LN or LoN, the LN was a result of the Paris peace conference or also known as the treat of Versailles which was signed on June 28 1919, which ended WWI. -
Model T and Assembly Line
The first Ford Model T was sold on September 27 1908, the model T was on the market until May 26, 1927, this vehicle was a big hit because of its affordable price for the blue collared people, The Model T became so much more Affordable from different cars was the way they were built, ford came up with the idea of many people working on cars at once to get the car to the buyer faster. this was called an assembly line, fords would get the car sold faster and would pay employees less per car. -
The Persons Case
The person case was a very constitutional ruling that aloud women the right to be appointed to the senate, this case was started by the famous five, they were a group of women right activist. In 1928 the supreme court of Canada declared that women's were not people, during this time the supreme court of Canada wasn't the highest court in Canada, the British Privy Council was so the five took there case to the next level and the privy council declared women people which aloud them on the senate. -
Black Tuesday
On October 29, 1929 was the day were the stock market crashed, which sparked what was known as the Great Depression. Before black Tuesday many people would buy stocks at low prices and sell them high to make money fast, but on October 29th people started to see the decrease in the market and started to panic, these sellers traded approximately 16 million shares on the new York stock exchange (four times the normal) and the dow jones industrial average dropped -12%. -
Bennet Buggy
In the twenties many farmers bought cars, but in later years during the great depression and drought that was occurring up in the parries most farmers couldn't afford the price of gasoline, nor could they afford the cost of repairs, so people started to take out the engines and wind shield and go back to the old fashion horse and buggy, Then somebody came up with the idea to call them Bennett buggy's after there Prime Minister R.B. Bennett as Canada blamed him for most of the depression. -
Five Cent Speech
Makenzie King was the Prime Minister of Canada during the early years of the depression and Canadians started to realize that he wasn't doing much at all in fact he was actually trying to wait it out.
But on April 3, 1930 King gave what is still remember as the five cent speech, this speech stated that Makenzie King would refuse to give unemployment benefits to any provincial government that wasn't Liberal. This became the leading reason on why he wasn't re-elected in the later election. -
Residential Schools
Canadian Residential Schools were created for the sole purpose of removing indigenous children from the influence of there own culture and forcing them into the dominant Canadian culture. Over the course of the hundred year existence of Residential schools 1931 was its peak year with more than 80 schools across Canada, around 30% of all indigenous kids were placed in these school system and 3200-6000 indigenous kids died in this schools, there's no exact # as it was incomplete historical data. -
Relief
Reliefs were vouchers that families in need during the Great Depression were given, they could exchange for food and clothing. If you were a single un married men you were not eligible for a relief payment, during this time company's were laying off a lot of men and would keep only a few. Since so many people were looking for jobs, no one would complain about there wage or they would risk getting replaced, so employers would pay low wages, the government or unions couldn't do much about this. -
New Political parties
The Federal and the Provincial Governments didn't seem to have fresh ideas for solving Canadas depression so the Canadian citizens were looking for new leaders as they were fed up with the lack of leadership from the liberal and the conservative. in 1932 the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation was formed by farmers, labour groups and university teachers, and also some MPs. The main reason the CCF never ended up getting elected was because the other big party's stole there ideas and used them. -
On-To-Ottawa Trek
In 1935, residents of the relief camps in British Columbia decided to go on strike, men would move rocks and build things like train tracks, but they would only get paid $0.20 a day, many men from relief camps got together and travelled by train and trucks to Vancouver, Regina, and Ottawa to protest the poor conditions, and low wages of relief camps. there was approximately 1500 men who joined the protest but the leaders eventually got arrested, which resulted in the Regina riot. -
Bennett's New Deal
In the mid 30s, just before the next election R.B. Bennett introduced something called radical reform, he wanted to bring in unemployment and social insurance, set minimum wages, limit the hours aloud to work a week, guaranteed fair treatment of employees and control prices so businesses cant make an unfair amount of profits, people ended up calling this Bennett's "New Deal", this system was similar to the united states program introduced by President Roosevelt, around the same time.
