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The Treaty of Versailles
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Timeline Project 1919-1939
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Royal Canadian Airforce
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Discovery of insulin
On November 14th, 1921 insulin was first discovered in. It was discovered by Canadian scientists Dr. Frederick Banting, Charles best, Professor J.J.R Macleod and Dr. James Collip at the university of Toronto. Insulin is a hormone natural hormone created in the pancreas that controls the level of glucose sugar in the blood. -
Chinese Exclusion act
The Chinese exclusion act was that was passed by the parliment of Canada, that banned most forms of Chinese imigration to Canada. The only Chinese people that were allowed in the country were:
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-Diplomats
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The Canaidian Broadcasting Channel
CBC had its first national broadcast covering the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation on july 1st, 1927. -
Women are concidered persons
Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy and Irene Parlby had a petition to declare that women were persons. They asked the supreme court to pass a law saying that women were persons under law, but the supreme court turned them down. they then asked the British Privy Council. The Privy Council found for the women on October 18, 1929, declaring that women were persons under the law. -
Black Tuesday
Canada had a sreong economy, but when the world balance changed, it dragged Canada strait into the great depression on october 29th, 1929. -
New Deal
Prime Minister R.B Bennett, seeing the end of his time in office, he made a bunch of radio speeches promosing Bennett's "New Deal" promised a more progressive taxation system, a maximum work week, a minimum wage, closer regulation of working conditions, unemployment insurance, health and accident insurance, a revised old-age pension and agricultural support programs. -
On to Ottawa trak
The :"on to Ottawa trek" was a 1935 social movement of unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada. The men lived and worked in these camps at a rate of twenty cents per day before walking out on strike in April 1935. -
S.S St. Louis
The S.S St.Lous was a ship with 937 Jews headed for cuba, all with valid Cuban visas. All these Jews were trying to run away from Germany because of the fear of getting killed by Hitler. The S.S St.Louis wasent aloud in Cuba, and couldent get into America, so it eventually tried Canada. "none is too many" Frederick Blair quoted after rejected them out of Canada. Luckily Britain, Belgium, Holland and France took them in.
