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The Persons Case shows inequality of women in society. Judge Emily Murphy asked the government if a woman was a "person" in the eyes of the law and they responded with "no". This meant that women were not allowed to be part of the Canadian senate.
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The Spanish Flu usually affected, in contrast to most influenzas, young and healthy adults. out of the world's 1.6 billion population at the time, approximately 50 million died because of the Spanish Flu and 500 million were infected with the Spanish Flu.
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The leauge of INdians was established to give aboriginal canadians the right to vote without giving up their aborigianl status.
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At 11:00 a.m. approximately 22,000 workers, alomst every worker in Winnipeg, went on strike. They wanted to improve working conditions.
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This marks the end of one of the world's deadliest natural disasters at that time.
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Due to the discovery of the Islets of Langerhans and their connection to diabetes, Frederick Banting discovered insulin and found out regular injections of it will stop the excess blood sugar effects of diabetes. He won a Nobel Prize for this.
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WIliam Lyon Mackenzie King became Prime Minister of Canada. Mackenzie King was a very cold and uncharismatic Prime Minister but he led Canada very well. He was head fo the Liberal party and is Canda's longest serving prime Minister; he was ni power for 21 years.
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This act banned all Chinese except students, merchants,and diplomats from entering Canada. To Chinese Canadians this day isn known as "Humiliation Day".
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the RCAF used to operate under another name from 1920-1924 but had the name changed to RCAF in 1924. It is the part of the Candaian army that deals with air combat and was used during WWII and the Cold War.
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his marks the start of the fall of the stock market in 1929. This crippled western economies including Canada's. The fall of the stock exchange conntinued for a whole month.
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William Lyon Mackenzie King delivered a speech at the beggining of the depression tha said that welfare was provincial government responsibility and that he would not give a "five cent piece" to any porvince that did not have a liberal government. This is one of the main reasnos the liberals lost the election.
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Mackenzie King lost Prime Ministership because he said he "would not give a five-cent piece" to Provincial Tory govenments.
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William Lyon Mackenzie King was re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada. Soon after he was elected a bribery scandal in the Department of Customs.
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Hockey Night in Canada started showing saturday night games of the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was broadcasted throughout Canda and was very popular. It is also Canda's oldest sports program on the air.
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This statue shows the start of Canada being completly independednt of the British. This meant that Canda was completly self-governing.
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Many men in western Canada during the economic depression worked in government releif camps. These camps had bad living conditions and payed workers only 20 cents a day. The workers went on strike and when the provincial goverment ignored them they decided to take their problems to the federal goverment in Ottawa because they had lots of support.
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Wiliiam Lyon Mackenzie King is re-elected to be Canada's Prime Minister.
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was made form the CRBC or Candaian Radio oradcasting Comission. It created to stop the domination of American boradcasting stations in Canada.
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The St.Louis sailed from Germany to Cuba carrying many jew passengers that were refugees seeking to escape the Nazi brutality. They were denied entrance into Cuba bacause of new immigration laws.
