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The law was reinstated by the campaign of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, it gained traction at the start of WW1. During the war, every province except for Quebec banned the sale of liquor because they didn't want people celebrating while men were overseas fighting. it was also a poor way to spend money to support the war. Prohibition ended in 1927 in Ontario but remained in the USA for longer. This led to a large industry of smugglers coming across the Canadian US border. -
As soldiers returned from the war they were struck with the Spanish Flu. It weakened many people causing them to get pneumonia killing them. This was before penicillin and other modern drugs which led to pneumonia having a much higher death rate than today. To stop the spread schools churches and more closed down similar to what occurred with Covid. Many communities tried to have a complete lockdown, but most were unsuccessful. There were around 500 million infections, and about 50 million died. -
The strike grew quickly into a general strike, store workers, factory workers, telephone operators, postal workers, firefighters, and more stopped working. The police had to keep working but most expressed their support for the strike. It went on for 37 days when it finally ended after Bloody Saturday, June 21, 1919, a parade started to protest the arrests of the leaders, out of fear the mayor read the riot act calling in the mounted police. 1 person died 30 were injured and hundreds arrested. -
In 1919 a meeting was held in Calgary union leaders agreed to make One Big Union (OBU). They believed by standing together they could get employers to agree to higher wages and shorter working hours. The Building and Metal Trades Councils in Winnipeg were the first to strike, they wanted better wages, 8 hour work days, and the right to bargain collectively. On May 15 30,000 additional workers walked off the job. People in Montreal Toronto and more cities went on sympathy strikes. -
Residential schools in Canada were schools run by the Catholic and Anglican church. In these schools, kids had their hair cut, clothes taken, names changed and weren't even allowed to speak their own language even though many of them didn't speak English. Children were abused physically, emotionally, and sexually by teachers if they weren't behaving or even sometimes if they behaved. The first was opened as early as 1830 and the last didn't close until 1996. -
A group of seven Canadian artists that formed in 1913, but didn't begin exhibiting their work until 1920. Had a very unique style of drawing many rugged Canadian landscapes, and Canada's diverse landscape allowed for their work to remain fresh. They used strong colours and heavy brush strokes to make their works stand out. The Group of 7 influenced many modern Canadian artist. -
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist that lived from 1871-1945. Although she wasn't Aboriginal herself, she lived and traveled with Aboriginal people during the 20s, this is what led to her love for their culture. Her love for Aboriginal culture showed in her art as she often painted their villages, in their style, or other things she found on her travels with them. Emily Carr was always inspired by the Group of 7 but was never able to join them as it was a male-only group. -
In 1921 diabetes had no way to be treated and they didn't know what caused it. this led to thousands dead annually. At the University of Toronto, Fredrick Banting discovered insulin. He believed that diabetes by a lack of the hormone Insulin. He first tried to raise animals' insulin believing it would work the same on humans. In 1921 he and Charles Best were granted the research facilities at the University of Toronto and they made Insulin. -
The Chinese Exclusion Act was an act intended to keep all Chinese immigrants out of Canada, excluding students and some other people. July first, 1923 the day the act was implemented was known as humiliation day to Chinese Canadians. Many families were split up because only a few members were allowed in Canada and the others had to go somewhere else. From 1923 when it was created to 1947 when it was removed less than 100 Chinese people entered Canada. -
The radio was the thing that brought all of Canada together. Although the radio was invented in 1895, It was only for the wealthy. In the 20's it became widely available with Edward S Rogers invention of the first non-battery powered radio it sold for about $150 CAD. More innovations involving the radio occurred in the 20's especially the radio being in cars as they became moore popular. -
Talkies was a slang term in the 1920s and 1930s for movies with audio and noises. The first talkie was an American film called The Jazz Signer. Before this people watched silent films that would show a video of someone and then a screen with just words that you would read. Many people would assume that during the depression movies would have really struggled, but people actually still went just as much as before. This shows how valuable entertainment is. -
R. B Bennett was the Canadian Prime Minister during most of the great depression and had many things named after him in a teasing manner. The most popular was the Bennett Buggy, many people bought cars when they had money before the depression, but when the depression hit they could no longer afford the gas. Rather than just not using the car people removed the engine and windshield and pulled it using a horse. Although it was a lot slower it still did the job and was affordable. -
The five-cent speech was a speech by Prime Minister King. He said that social welfare was the responsibility of the government which wasn't a big problem, but after that King declared he would not give a five-cent piece to any province that doesn't have a Liberal government. Not long after that he and the Liberal Party were voted out of office in favour of the Conservative Party and R. B. Bennett. Bennett used King's five-cent speech against him by saying he will give money to ALL provinces. -
During the Great Depression, Many men were out of jobs. This meant they had no way to contribute to society as they couldn't help make things or spend money to help the economy. So the Canadian government introduced relief camps. relief camps were places for vagrants to do work such as building roads, this would be good but the workers were only paid 1/10 of what they would normally get paid. This led to the workers getting upset with the working conditions causing them to riot. -
The Onto Ottawa Trek was thousands of men from relief camps that rode trains that were going to Ottawa so they could protest. As they kept going more and more men joined, some not even a part of the relief camps but wanted to contribute. Unfortunately for them, they were stopped in Regina by the mounted police. The protesters never ended up getting their wishes for better pay and working conditions.