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Winnipeg General Strike
Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, and rising Revolutionary Industrial Unionism all contributed to the postwar labour unrest that fuelled the landmark strike. -
Discovery of Insulin (+1) (Social)
This was a very significant event in Canadian history because this was one of the biggest discoveries in medical history. Insulin became a big success, millions of diabetes sufferers around the world were treated. -
The Halibut Treaty (+2) (Social)
This is a significant even in Canadian history since it was the first time Canada signed a treaty on its own, and without the prescence of a British offical. This showed that Canada dozen't need to be dependant on Britain and can handle foreign affairs on their own. This was one of the first major steps PM King took to make Canada more independant and autonomous from Britain. -
Old Age Pension Plan (+1) (Social)
In 1927, under the Old Age Pensions Act, the provincial and federal governments agreed to share the cost of means-tested old age pensions available to persons aged 70 and over. This legislation was superseded by the Old Age Security Act. Flat-rate old age pensions to Canadians 70 years of age and older who met residence requirements -
The Great Crash of 1929 in Canada (-1) (Economic)
terror seized the stock exchanges of North America. Capitalism’s speculative party, with its galloping share prices and its celebrity millionaires, came to an abrupt stop. The Great Crash, it was called, and it was followed by the Great Depression. -
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The Great Depression (-2) (Economic)
This was a very signifcant event in Candian history. This is because of the effects that the Great Depression had on Canada. Unemployment rates had reached as high as sixty percent in the Maritimes. This was also significant due to its impact on population, birth rates and immigration rates were lower than ever. Canada's birthrate dropped from 13.1 births per 1000 in 1930 to only 9.7 by 1937 -
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The Dirty Thirties (-2) (Social)
When the stock market crashed in 1929, the economy went into a down spin. Businesses went bankrupt. Workers were laid off and roamed the country looking for work. The West was hit with devastating drought and plagues of grasshoppers. The Dirty Thirties were a decade of hardship for most Canadians. -
Bennett's New Deal (0) (Social)
Bennett tried to solve the problems of the depression at first with economic nationalism. R.B. Bennett negotiated new trade deals with other Commonwealth countries and used the federal treasury to buy prairie wheat. He also set up unemployment relief camps (under the Department of National Defence) and gave some federal handouts to the provinces. -
Canada Enters WWII (+1) (Civic)
Within two months the first contingents of Canadian troops arrived in the United Kingdom to supplement the British Expeditionary Forces -
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Battle of Britain (+1) (Political)
The Battle of Britain was the first battle of the Second World War fought mainly in the air. After nearly four months of anxious combat, the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Fighter Command stopped the German air force's attempt, in advance of a planned invasion, to dominate the skies over southern and eastern England. Hundreds of Canadian air and ground crew participated in the battle, most as members of the RAF. -
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Japanese Internment Camps (-2) (Social)
Canadians of Japanese background were removed from their homes and sent to internment camps in the B.C. interior, and to farms and internment camps across Canada. -
Conscription (-1) (Civic)
Conscription is the compulsory enlistment or "call up" of citizens for military service. -
Battle of Normandy (+1) (Civic)
was one of the pivotal events of the Second World War and the scene of some of Canada's greatest feats of arms. Canadian sailors, soldiers and airmen played a critical role in the Allied invasion force that swept into France that summer, beginning the bloody campaign to liberate Western Europe from Nazi occupation. -
Dieppe Raid (+1) (Civic)
During the Second World War, on 19 August 1942, the Allies launched a major raid on the French coastal port of Dieppe. Operation Jubilee was the first Canadian Army engagement in the European theatre of the war, designed to test the Allies' ability to launch amphibious assaults against Adolf Hitler's "Fortress Europe." -
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (-2) (Civic)
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki.
