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Residential Schools
Residential schools were created by the Catholic church to try and convert Indigenous children to be apart of the Catholic church but they would beat the children and treat them terribly. Most of them died during this time frame and they were kept until they were 18 years of age -
Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu was a deadly virus that started in 1918 and killed fifty thousand Canadians. The Spanish Flu was worldwide though and caused fifty million deaths. It was reported to be in Canada when visitors came to Canada -
Winnipeg General Strike
Workers went on strike 30, 000 people were involved but the government believed that they wanted to create a communist revolution so in tern they called the police and many people were arrested as well as two people being killed -
Bloody Saturday
This was when people crowded by a street car around City Hall and started vandalizing it. The police attacked the crowd with their batons and guns causing 30 injuries and 2 dead. -
Xenophobia
Xenophobia is a phobia against people of different nationalities and people from different countries. It was big in the 1920s because of the white supremacists -
Flappers
The term "Flapper" was used as a derogatory term to define young women who wore short dresses and showed a lot of skin. They also worked in clubs and were a part of the entertainment business. They were seen as young skinny women that "showed off" -
Group Of Seven
They were a group of artists that disbanded in 1933 they were a group of landscape painters that would paint the beauty of Canada -
Radio
The first broadcasting system was a great form of entertainment for people at the time because they didn't really have anything else so it was a great form of entertainment -
Insulin
There was a little boy who was suffering from diabetes and he was close to dying before his doctor gave him a shot of insulting which made his blood sugar levels drop. This cause the world to catch the news of insulin to better take care of patients with diabetes -
Talkies
The Talkie was invented in October 1927 and was used to make it so that movies had sound when they watched it because previously there was no sound when movies were invented -
Persons Case
The Persons Case was the women fighting for their right to work in higher paying jobs and workplaces. In 1929 it was ruled and became a law that women were allowed to be elected into the Senate, which was just the beginning of women's rights -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday is when the stock market fell about 30 points which means that the stock market lost it's value about 12% and that is when the beginning of the Great Depression started -
Bennett Buggy
Bennett Buggy's were created during the great depression when things were much more expensive and the market dropped. The motor, windows, and sometimes doors were taken off the buggies and they were pulled by horses. They most likely did this to save money -
Great Depression
The great depression started after the market fell in the united states, which caused a mass economic struggle across Canada because it was even harder to pay to live.