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Spanish Flu
This was a pandemic that lastd from March 1918 to June 1920, spreading even to Arctic and Pacific Islands, Nearly 100 million people died to this flu, making this one of the most deadly natural disasters in Human History. -
Prohibition
After the war, the Canadian government decided to control the making and trading of liquor. During the war, its manufacture and importation into provinces where purchases were illigal. -
Branch Plants
Branch plants were used when United States began building factories in Canada to sell products in the Canadian Market. This took place between the American Civil War and WWI. These branch plants built in Canada would bypass some of Canada's Tariffs. -
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The Roaring Twenties and Dirty Thirties Timeline
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Winnipeg General Strike
This was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history, and became the platform for future labour reforms. Even though World War I resulted in a lot of profit for Canadian companies, workers had very poor working conditions. -
Group of Seven (Artists)
The Group of Seven were a group of Canadian Landscape Painters in the 1920s, who were most famous for paintings of the Canadian Landscape. They were strongly influenced by European Impressionism. -
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King was elected as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada. He was the dominant Canadian Political Leader from the 1920s to the 1940s. He was the longest serving Prime Minister in history. -
Foster Hewitt
Foster Hewitt was a Canadian Radio broadcaster, and was most famous for his play by play calls for Hockey Night in Canada. He coined the phrase "HE SHOOTS! HE SCORES!" He made the sport Hockey very famous as many radio listeners would tune in for his enthusiastic voice. -
Chinese Immigration Act 1923
This was also known as the Chinese Exclusion Act, ensuring that most Chinese immigration to Canada was prohibited. Chinese originally had to pay a head tax but, after many members of the government put pressure on federal government to discourage immigrants. This act banned Chinese Immigrants unless they were merchants, diplomat, foreign student, and special circumstances. -
Royal Canadian Airforce
The Royal Canadian Air Force was the air force of Canada in 1924 to 1968. They were used for transport, but changed to focus on military and became part of the army in WWII. -
The Person Case
Women were given the choice to vote before 1929, but until after 1929 women weren't considered as people in the Canadian Constitution. Women didn't have as many rights as men, and weren't recognized with the same respect as men until the suffragette movement. -
Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 also known as the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the worst stock maret crash in the history of Canada. This crash caused an enormous amount of unemployment, financial problems for Canada and caused a 10 year economic drop that affected North America. -
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett served as the 11th Prime Minister of Canada from August 1930 to October 1935, during the great depression. After his failure to solve the depression's issues by increasing trade with Britain, he moved to England. -
New Deal
This was a series of economic programs passed by the US Congress from 1933 to 1938. These were their solutions to the Great Depression. The three Rs were relief, recovery and reform. -
On-To-Ottawa Trek
This was a movement of unemployed men who were protesting about the poor conditions in federal relief camps in scattered area in western Canada. These men lived and worked in camps for twenty cents a day, before going on strike in April 1935. After two months, the protesters travelled east to Ottawa to bring their issues to the federal government directly. -
S.S. St. Louis
The S.S. St. Louis was a German Ocean Liner which is most notable for the single voyage in 1939 where her captain tried to find homes for 937 German Jewish Refugees, but they were denied access to Cuba.
