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Bloody Saturday
From May 15 - June 26, over 30,000 people went on strike in Winnipeg. Protestors fought with police, and over the span of six weeks, thousands of protestors were shot and many leaders were arrested. -
Residential schools
Residential schools were used to forcibly convert Native children into English children. In 1920, it became absolutely mandatory for Indian children to go to these schools where they would be abused mentally, physically, and sexually. These children were not allowed to go to any other educational system. -
Crop failure
In the 1920s, Canada's crop markets started disappearing, due to troubles in the forest industries, Later on, the potato industry started suffering as well. Prices started dropping, and farmers and crops were suffering from depletion and disappearances of different markets and industries -
Spanish Flu
While the flu started in 1918, the pandemic continued until near the end of 1920. It started as a minor sickness until people started dying because of it. -
Radios
After being introduced in WW1, radios became a very common thing in many households. A standard home most definitely had a radio, and radio stations started popping up everywhere. Radios and television had started to contribute to media culture. -
Insulin
Surgeon Frederick G. Banting, his assistant Charles Best, and John Macleod used two dogs to extract residue from their pancreas'. After many tests and fails, the men had discovered the first signs of anti-diabetic progress, which they named Isletin. They continued to reduce the toxics in the chemical, and eventually succeeded. -
The Rise of Fascism
Fascists started aligning themselves with mainstream conservatives -
Bombardier
Joseph-Armand Bombardier was an inventor, born in 1907. 1922, he made the prototype of an engine that could run over a kilometer on snow. His dad demanded that he take the machine apart, as it could cause injury. Joseph married and had six children, one sadly dying during one winter when they couldn't get to the hospital on time, pushing Joseph to finish his invention of an engine that could run on snow easily. -
Chinese Immigration Act
Chinese immigration had been curved by a 'head tax', then stopped all together by the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 -
Rise of Fascism
In 1930, the Canadian Union of Fascists was founded, led by Chuck Crate. Later in the 1930s, The Union of Fascists, The National Social Christian Party, The Canadian Nationalist Party, and some others formed with nazi groups to make the National Unity Party -
Group of Seven
The Group of Seven (The Algonquin School) was a group of seven Canadian Landscape painters. They initiated the first canadian national art movement. -
On to Ottawa trek
In 1935, hundreds of men decided to do an organized protest/walkout. These men, homeless and unemployed, took to the task to ride and walk over 3,000 miles from Vancouver to Ottawa. -
The Canadian Wheat Board
The Canadian Wheat Board was an agricultural board in Manitoba. The CWB was established in 1935 as a voluntary marketing agency to help during The Great Depression. -
Regina Riot
What began as hundreds of men trekking to Ottawa as a protest turned into a huge movement against the government. In Regina, police and other authorities decided to stop these men. The blood of officers, civilians, and trekkers was spilled onto the streets. Two dead and hundreds injured. -
MS. St Louis
About 1939, 907 Jewish Refugees were refused approval to seek refuge in Canada. MS St. Louis turned around, and brought them all back home. A small percent of the refugees later died in the holocaust