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Prohibition
Prohibition banned the production, import, and transportation of liquor across country,and sale of alcoholic beverages were illegal. Prohibition made by the government in 1918, causing the crime rate to drop, and arrests for frunkenness decreased Opponents thought that it violated British traditions of individual liberty. The United States was also officially "dry" from 1919 to 1933. Some Canadians made fortunes smuggling Canadian liquor south of the border. -
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Events of 1918s--1930s in Canada
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Spanish Flu
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 As soldiers returned home from the war, the country was struck with a this terrible epidemic--"Spanish flu". Soldiers carried the virus with them from overseas. The epidemic ravaged countries around the world. To stop the spread of the flu, there were many coummunitites tried to set up a total quarntine tha allowing no one to travel in or out. School threatres, and church closed.In all, abour 50,000 Canadians died during this epidemic. A federal Department of Health was create in 1919. -
Winnipeg General Strike
Worker unrest came to head in Winnipeg in 1919. A large number of immigrant workers had settled in the city. They wanted to improve working and living conditions. 30,000 additional workers walked off the job. In Winnpeg, the strike spread from industry to industry. It quickly escalated into a general strike.The strike was co-ordinated by the Central Strike Committee. Winnipeg officials and the citizens' Committee of one 1000 were determined to crash the strike. -
THe Group of Seven
Group of Seven ArtAt the turn of the century, art and painting wa changing considerably.The Group of Seven is most famous for its paintings of the Canadian landscape, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley. This group was the first to create a Canadian style in painting. Their influence and popuclarity spread steadily during their lifetimes. -
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
Mackenzie King was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s to the 1940s. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926.He was a workaholic with a shrewd and penetrating intelligence and a profound understanding of how society and the economy worked. In the election of 1930, The Liberals were voted out of office & the Conservative Party came into power. -
The Discovery oF Insulin
The discovery of InsulinIn 1921, over a moillion people in North America had diabetes, but no one knows that how to treat it. In 1922, at the University of Toronto, A doctor, Frederick Banting, Canadian medical researchers discovered a ground-breaking treatment---insulin. Banting thought that people with diabetes could not absorb sugar and starch from the bloodstream and they wasted away, they were missing an important hormone called insulin. By late 1922, in sulin was made available to treat diabetes. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This Act banned all Chinese except students, merchants, and diplomats from entering Canada until the Act was repealed in 1947, Only 8 Chinese people were admitted to Canada. July 1, 1923 is known as "Humiliation Day". Later, the federal government agreed all Asian immigrant to enter Canada because of pressure which was the European immgrants were not staying on farm as intended, they went into the town and city to look for jobs. -
The Royal Canadian Air Force
The Royal Canadian Air Force was used for peace keeping. It was used to patrol for forest fires, watch for smugglers crossing Canada's border, and checking fishing boats. The Royal Canadian Air Force used to be just the Canadian Air Force but then after when Britain removed the Canadian Air Force and they couldn't go to war, they started a Royal Canadian Air Force. -
Persons Case
It is a famous Canadian and British constitutional case where it was first decided that women were eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate.In 1927, Emily Murphy, the first woman judge in the British Empire, and Four other women decided to petition the prime minister about the meaning of 'persons' in Section 24 of the British North American Act. In 1928, the Supreme Court of Canada decided that women were not "persons" qualified for appointment to the Canadian Senate. -
Black Tuesday
1929 Stock Market CrashBlack Tuesday is the Wall Street Crash of 1929, an American stock market crash. It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United StatesAt the time, people had bought plenty of stocks when the price was low and then sold them when the price was high. The people who invested in the stock market lost everything including their jobs, money, cars and houses. -
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett
R.B. Bennett served as the 11th Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930, to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years.•The Conservative government was defeated in the general election of 1935. Mackenzie King became Prime Minister -
The Statute of Westmister
On December 1931, the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster. The Statute made the recommendations of the Balfour Report law. Canada was made completely self-governing, bound by no laws other than its own.There was still one court higher than the Supreme of Canada--- the Judicial Committee od the Privy Council in Britain. Canadiana agreed on the powers to be held by the provincial and federal governments. -
On-to-Ottawa Trek
The On-to-Ottawa Trek In June, 1935, thousands of men fed up with life in the british Columbia relief camps.The trekkers wanted clear economic reforms such as minimum wages and a genuine system od social and unemployment insurance.The men got to Regina, where they stopped by the Mounted Police.PM Bennett claimed the trekkers were disobeying the law and were part of a plot to overthrow the government.Dozens of people were injured and a police officer was killed. -
New Deal
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett knew that Canadians were angry with the government over the economic downturn. In 1935, just before an election, his New Deal was startled by most people.This plan was to use all the government's resourses to get the economy going.However, In the election of 1935, King and the Liberals swept back to power in a landslide victory. -
CBC- Canadian Broadcasting Company
In 1933, the government created the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission(CRBC). In 1936, it became the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation(CBC). It was meant to counteract Amercian domination of the airwaves and to encourage the development of Canadian program.The CBC wa proving that it could be a powerful force in establishing a sense od national unity across Canada.
