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(+2) -He is one of Canada's most decorated indigenous Soldiers
-He was awarded the Military Medal plus two bars for acts of bravery in Belgium and France
-He became one of the first Canadians to be awarded the Military Medal -
(-2) -His costly offensive at the Somme (1916) and Passchendaele (1917) have became famous for costly loss of lives and senseless battle of WW1
-He continued to send men into battle even though the chances for survival were slim, he did this because he didn't like the fact that Canada's insistence that its divisions fight together as a core
-He became known as "The butcher of the Somme" -
(+2) -January 1916
-before this women weren't even considered people, even though indigenous women and black women weren't allowed to vote at least it was a step in the right direction -
(+2) -He was 58 years old(13 years over the age limit) when he enlisted with the 106th Battalion in 1916
-He was awarded the Canadian Forces Medallion for Distinguished Service in 2010
-In the battle of Vimy Ridge he single handedly killed about 7 German soldiers by lobbing a grenade at a machine gun nest that had his unit pinned down. He captured the German soldiers and made them carry their machine gun back across the Canadian lines and drop it at the feet of his commanding officer -
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-It was conceived like the other wartime taxes, as a temporary measure
-Married Canadians with an income below $2,000, married Canadians with an income below $1,000 were also except form filing a tax return -
(-1) She was hospitalized for diphtheria in October 1917, after she recovered the Military Medical Board declared her fit for active duty. She was assigned "transport duty" aboard the ill-fated Llandovery Castle which was sunk by a German U-boat, all the nurses died. -
(+2) -He was a soldier, a physician and a poet
-He wrote "In Flanders Fields" which was one of the most famous poems written during WW1
-From the poison gas he developed lung disease which weakened him but he still continued to work and care for wounded soldiers. He developed pneumonia and died January 28, 1918 -
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-The Canada Temperance Act of 1878 gave local governments the “local option” to ban sale of alcohol
-during WW1 it became law in remaining provinces as well as in Yukon and Newfoundland
-Liquor could legally be produced in Canada but it was not sold there, it was legally exported out of Canadian ports
-Most provincial laws were repealed in the 1920’s -
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-killing about 50,000 Canadians, the highest death rates among First Nations peoples 37.7 per thousand died
-Aboriginal people did not receive the same health care benefits as non aboriginals -
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-First started in 1876
-it was eradicate First Nationals culture in favour of assimilation into Euro-Canadian society
-In the 1920’s the Indian Act became more restrictive with compulsory Residential schools
-The right for ‘Indians’ to raise money to get a lawyer to sure for land claims was also taken away from them
-Residential Schools were already implemented before the 1920’s but in 1920 the Indian Act made Residential Schools compulsory for children between the ages of 7 and 15