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Canada through the 1920's and 1930's
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Assembly Line
The assembly line developed by the Ford Motor Company between 1908 and 1915 made assembly lines famous in the following decade through the concepts like mass production, such as the affordability of the Ford Model T and the introduction of high wages for Ford workers. Henry Ford was the first to master the "art" of the Assembly Line and made it more effective. Assembly Lines made units cost less to reproduce and made them faster to build. -
Spanish Flu
The 1918 Spanish Flu was a widespread Influenza pandemic that spread across the world. Most victims are healthy young adults which was unusual for most of the other influenza outbreaks that mostly effect kids and the elderly. The outbreak lasted from March 1918 to June 1920 nearly killing 50,000,000( 3% of the World's population at the time) and infecting more than 500,000,000 people. The virus even spreaded to the Artic and remote Pacific Islands. -
Winnipeg General Strike
The Winnipeg General Strike was one of the most influential event which became the "platform" for all labour reforms in the future. Although Canadian Companies enjoyed huge profits, the labour regulations were almost non-existent. When the surviving men came back from the Great War, they immediately found out their jobs were taken by immigrants. In March 1919, labourers from all across Western Canada all gathered in Winnipeg and plan to go on strike. Two strikers were killed during the strike. -
Prime Minister Mackenzie King is elected
William Lyon Mackenzie King was the dominant Canadian political leader in the 1920s. He served as the 10th prime minister of Canada.A Liberal with 21 years in office, he was the longest-serving Prime Minister in British Commonwealth history. Voters did not love him, he lacked charisma. He was elected because his skills was what Canada needed at the time. One of his memorable times was the "Five Cent Speech". -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This act went to effect in July, 1st, 1923. The act banned any Chinese people from entering Canada, except Chinese Diplomats, Foreign Students and Merchants. Chinese people with British nationality were also banned as well. -
The Royal Canadian Air Force is created
After the war, Britain committed Canada to the International Convention for Air Navigation as a peace covention signed in Paris, 1919. Canada was to control their own air traffic and also in charge of protecting their own airspace. -
Person's Case
Person's Case is when Women went to trial to demand their right to vote. In the 1910s Women, children under 21, Mental Institute patients were not defined as "Persons".The case, put forward by a group of women known as the Famous Five, a group of five Canadian women who in 1927 asked the Supreme Court of Canada to answer the question, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"The persons case established that Women have rights to vote. -
Black Tuesday
Also known as the "Great Crash" was one of the most devastating Stock Market Crash ever in the history of the United States. The "Roaring Twenties" was a time where the economy was looking great. Wealth and a lot of excess. People were buying a lot of stocks because they were profitable. On "Black Tuesday", the stock prices plummeted. People kept selling the increasingly cheap stocks therefore causing the Market to collaspe. Almsot all the people lost their jobs and all their belongings. -
R.B. Bennett elected as Prime Minister
Richard Bedford 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. By defeating William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 1930 federal election, he was unlucky to take office during the Great Depression. Bennett tried to combat the Depression by inducing more trades within the British Empire and imposing tariffs for imports outside the Empire. -
The Five Cent Speech
During the beginning of the Great Depression , Mackenzie King made a speech that the problem of Social Welfare was the responsibility of the provinces. He also said that he will not give a "five cent piece" to anybody who lost their jobs in a province without a Liberal Government hence the name of the speech. This speech was one of the reasons why the Liberals lost the elections to the Conservatives.Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett replaced Mackenzie King. -
Statute of Westminster 1931 11 Dec 1931
This is an act from the Parliment of the United Kingdom which effectively allowed countries in British control to properly govern themselves as a nation, but it remained in the "commonwealth Realm" This Statute effects 6 dominions,the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Irish Free State, the Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa. -
Foster Hewitt & Hockey Night in Canada
Foster Hewitt was famous for his play-by-play calls for Hockey Night in Canada,the first radio program widely listened to in Canada. He was born on November 21, 1902 and died on April 21, 1985. He was the creator of the phrase " he shoots, he scores!".Hockey Night in Canada is a television broadcast of National Hockey League games in Canada in the 1950s, produced by CBC Sports. It is one of the oldest sports related television program still on air today. -
The New Deal
The "New Deal" was a plan passed by Frankiln D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States. The plan was to help the economy and the people affected by it recover , as a response to the Great Depression. Unemployment rates were at a all time high and people were in a state of poverty from buying stocks. the New Deal created more Social agencies to help people find work and it also created a lot of jobs. Although the New Deal didn't work out effectively, it gave the people hope.we -
The Canadian Broadcasting Company is Created
In 1929, there was huge concern that the growing influence of American radio broadcasting as U.S.-based networks began to expand into Canada. The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Company was also created in 1932 as a predecessor of the CBC. The network was used to broadcast programming to riders aboard its passenger trains, with coverage primarily in central and eastern Canada. -
SS St. Louis
The SS St.Louis was an German Ocean Liner famous for her one voyage where the Captain Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for the 937 German Jewish refugees after they were denied entry to Cuba. The jews were looking for a place to escape to since the Nazi government came into power. When the ship arrived at Cuba, The Cuban government under Federico Laredo Brú refused the passengers as tourist and demanded a fee of $500 each, money that the passengers didn't have. A dozen passengers suicided.
