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Alcohol Prohibition
Alcohol Prohibition ment that the production, import and transportation of alcohol is now banned. This alcohol prohibition was mentioned due to the fact that people realized the production of this useless liquid contributed more harm then good towards the war. It also used up some of the grain that could of been used to feed people instead of using it to produce alcohol. -
Influenza Epidemic
This Influenza Epidemic was because of a virus many soldiers brought back after the war called, "spanish flu". This virus caused people's bodies to become weaker then natural and soon these people would have gotten pneumonia. Thousands of people died since at that time there was no cure for pneumonia yet. -
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Winnipeg General Strike
This was the day both trades councils (Building and Matal) voted to go on strike. They wanted better wages, an eight-hour day and the right to bargain collectively for better working confistions. This strike influenced many others to join all across Canada and lasted for 37 days. -
Group Of Seven
The Group of Seven was a small group of artists (7) who made art off of the Canadian landscape. The original seven people in this group were Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley. They usually drew areas in northern Ontaria but they also drew many places all across Canada. -
Assembly Line
Henry Ford invented the assembly line which was used for building cars. At first, this assembly line had no movement like the ones we see today, so workers had to walk along these assembly lines while adding parts to the car. Later on this assembly line improved and acted like a conveyor belt so that workers would just have to stay stationary. As the car moved along the assembly line more and more parts are added until it reached the end where it was finished. -
Prime Minister: Mackenzie King
He was one of the prime ministers of Canada in the 1920's. He completely dominated the Liberal party and political life in Canada for about 30 years. He was known to be a policital genius and gernerally listened to what people in Canada wanted. -
Insulin
Insulin was the cure for diabetes and was discovered at this time by Frederick Banting, Charles Best, J.B Collip. Insulin is a hormone that diabete patients lack, Banting came up with the idea of taking this insulin from dogs and injecting it into people with diabetes. With the help of Best and Collip he found a way to extract this insulin from dogs and was able to use it to cure diabete patients. -
Foster Hewitt & Hockey Night in Canada
Foster Hewitt was the first person to broadcast a play-by-play hockey game over the radio. He broadcasted these hockey games for almost 30 years for Canadians. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This act was used to banned any immigration of Chinese people except for students, merchants and diplomats into Canada. To many of the Chinese Canadian citizens of Canada, this day was known as "humiliation day". -
RCAF
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was an organization that was used for peaceful purposes. They usually did good deeds like conducted surveys, patrolled for forest fires, watched for smuggling along Canada's coasts and checked on fishing boats. This airforce was also later on used for sending mail across Canada. -
Black Tuesday
This was the day when the stock markets started to crash. Many people thought that they could be rich investing into these stock markets, but when these stocks crashed many of these people who invested lost all their money. -
Five-cent speech
In the 1930, Canada was struggling though what was called, "the great depression". Mackenzie king thought that the best way to treat this great depression was to wait it out and that all porvinces will recieve a "five-cent piece" except for those that don't have a Liberal government. The election for new Prime Minister in 1930 caused King to lose because he didn't try and help Canada with this struggle for jobs and money. Richard Bedford Bennett replaced King and began to try and help the issue -
The Statute of Westminster
This was the day when British Parliament finally passed the Statute of Westminster which ment that Canda could finally have a self-government and that Britian can't pass any new laws in Canada. -
On-to-Ottawa Trek
In 1932, the new Canadian government created many relief camps for men who had no jobs due to the great depression. These men were given work to do and was given food, shelter and clothes but was only paid 20 cents a day. In 1935, many of the men were fed up with the pay for the work they had to do and decided to protest to the government. "On-to-Ottawa Trek" was the name of the journey to protest agaisnt these relief camps the government created. -
CBC
In 1928 Prime Minister Bennett realized that most of the radio broadcasts came from America. He didn't like the fact that there were so few Canadian radio stations so in 1933, he created the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) this increased the amount of radio stations across Canada. In 1936, the CRBC became the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
