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R.B. Bennett
He promised a resolution to the great depression in Canada. Once he achieved office he found it difficult to meet any of his promises. The only action he made was the creation of relief camps, all this together combined to make it impossible to be relected. -
Mackenzie King
King was reluctant to acknoledge the scale of the great depression. He refused to provide federal fundings to provinces that were strugling with the unemployment. King had a new deal similar to what Roosevelt had, but it had been too late, King was not re-elected and the deal was not accepted. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a great genocide where 6 million Jewish men, women and children were brutally killed. It was an act of anti-semitism and hatred towards the Jewish. Adolf Hitler, the man who started the genocide of the Jews, blamed them for the loss of WW1, directing the German people to hate the Jews. -
Dionne Quintuplets
The Dionne quintuplets were the first case in where quintuplets were born and survived. Annette, Emilie, Yvonne, Cecile and Marie were 4 Canadian girls born from Oliva and Elzire Dionne on 28th of may, 1934. They quickly grabbed attention world wide. The Ontario government removed the children from the parents care, they soon became a tourist attraction. Oliva fought for 9 years to regain the care of here children. -
Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese internment camps, much like the relief camps, were built to house a certain group for the better. But instead of single men, the camps housed Japanese Canadians. The Japanese faced heavy racism ever since they first arrived in Canada, but after the attack of pearl harbour they faced intensified to a dagerous amount. -
The Manhatten Project
Canada contributed heavily by supplying the demand for uranium need to create the bombs. Canada had also made agreements on the subject, helping with research and supply. -
Nuremburg Trials
After WW2 many of the man who committed the war crimes on the genocide of the Jewish people. Many fled went into hiding. In the acts of investigation in Canada, created the laws to prosecute or deport any suspected war crimminals. -
Declaration Of Human Rights
Canada singed the 10th of december, 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration later brought the enactment of the Canadian Human Rights act and the entrenchment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These impacting the laws in all the Canadian provinces and territories today. -
Hate Crime Laws
Hate Crime Laws were introduced the same time as the Declaration of Human Rights The laws prohibit any action of discrimination towards a specified ethnic group. These laws mold the way we see society today.