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Prohibition
The level of prohibition was different in different provinces, it is an attempt to prohibit the selling and drinking of alcoholic beverages during the First World War. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union, bought up the idea of national Prohibition in the United State and think this will protect the people from alcohol abuse. The prohibition started on January 16, 1920 and the sale of alcohol is forbidden with very few exceptions (such as aboriginal wines). -
Prohibition (continued...)
Alcohol can only be sold through government for industrial, scientific, artistic and medical uses. However, the ban also had created much alcohol crime such as smuggling and people would abuse the use of doctor’s prescription to get alcohol. Later in 1920, British Columbia already voted to have made alcohol available through government legislation and by 1930, most of the other provinces had voted against prohibition, with the exception of P.E.I, which kept the prohibition until 1948. -
Spanish Flu (continued...)
... This influenza was mainly in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Brazil, and South Pacific. Even many men in WWI was hit by the Spanish Flu, many were so sick that they could not even fight. In fact, the influenza killed even more men than what the weapons did. -
Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu lasted for one year, and it happened near the end of WWI. This influenza was started in China and slowly made its way globally. It had killed more men than WWI, killed around 20-40 million people. It was the worst epidemic recorded in world history. Many young kids and people got this infectous disease and died instantly. The doctors and physicians could not do anything to stop this disease from spreading. -
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Interwar Timeline
END OF WORLD WAR I TO THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II. -
Bloody Saturday
This day was the day that Winnipeg General Strike ended. Many were injured (approximately 30 people) and 1 person died. Those on strike even set a fire on one of the cars that was passing by on the street. Many people lost their job, which cause the economy in Winnnipeg to decline, as for all the leaders... they all went to jail. -
Prime Minister Mackenzie King
Mackenzie King was the tenth Prime Minister of Canada, in 1919 he was elected as the leader of Liberal party and the first issue he addressed was tariffs and freight rates and he reduced them. In the 1926 election, he won again and he reduced the war debt but he lost the 1930 election. In 1935, the Liberals were formed again and remain in the position until 1948. -
Insulin
Insulin was one of Canada's most well-known discoveries made by Frederick Banting and Charles Best. Insulin helps save many lives of those who are suffering from diabetes. Diabetes is when someones body cannot break down sugar. Back then, no one understood how diabetes worked so there were no way to help save those with diabetes but to set them on a special diet. They could only eat foods in which they can metabolize. They ended up losing a lot of weight and became somewhat like a skeleton. -
Foster Hewitt & Hockey Night in Canada
Foster Hewitt is a Canadian radio broadcaster back in the 1920s. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, on November 21, 1902. The first time he ever broadcasted was on Feburary 16, 1923, for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He bacame famous by/ with his comment, "He shoots! He scores!" in the Hockey Night in Canada. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Many Chinese men from China were brought to Canada to help build the Canadian Pacific Railway, The Chinese were treated unfairly mainly because the "white" men were paid double the wage of the Chinese men. Also they were taken advantage of because the Chinese men were called over to build the most difficult and dangerous part of the railway. After the railway was finished, everyone including the union workers and politicians told the Chinese workers that they can head back home to China, but... -
Chinese Exclusion Act (continued...)
...the politicians and the union workers were surprised by the response they got from all the Chinese men. All the Chinese wanted to move and stay in Canada. Everyone thought that it was a joke, and soon in 1885, the federal government put a head tax of $50 per Chinese immigrant. This was to try to discourage the Chinese from immigrating. As years passed, the head tax kept increasing. The federal government earn $23 million just from the Chinese head tax. http://canadaonline.about.com/od/history -
Royal Canadian Air Force
On September 19, 1918, just before the end of WWI, the Canadian Government approved for Canada to have their own air force separate from the Royal Air Force, which belonged to Britain. The Canadian Air Force was temporarily disbanded on June 19, 1919 and then permanently reestablished in April 24, 1924, but this time they added the word, "Royal" to its name. So it was then known as the Royal Canadian Air Force. -
The Person's Case
It wasn't until October 18, 1929, that Canadian women were legally considered as, "persons", this meant that they did not have the same rights and freedoms as men. Five women from Alberta asked Prime Minister Mackenzie King to let the Supreme Court decide whether this law was fair. The Supreme Court did not rule in their favour, so the women were able to appeal the court's decision to the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council where the case was won... -
The Persons Case (continued...)
So after that, the women were able to be appointed to the Senate, -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was the cause of the Great Depression. On October 29, 1929, most Canadian and American investors sold many stocks at once because they were scared of the sudden drop in values. At that time many borrowed from the bank but was unable to pay back the money. Many citizens who were not part of the playing in the stock market lost lots of money because the bank loaned it to others to borrow/ use. Many businesses even went bankrupt which caused the loss of many peoples' jobs. -
Five Cent Speech
The "FIve Cent Speech" was delivered by Prime Minister Mackenzie King. This speech was to inform citizens about how many provinces are all helping with both the Great Depression and Black Tuesday.He also mentioned that social welfare was the responsibility of all the provinces. One big thing that probably got him thrown out of power was probably how he told the citizens that he wouldn't give a "five-cent piece to those alleged unemployment purposes". -
Five Cent Speech (continued...)
When the speech was made the Liberals party was in power.
Conservatives came into power after the speech. Which means that after the speech, Mackenzie King had no more power and Bennett was the new Prime Minister. -
Richard Bedford (R.B.) Bennett
On August 7, 1930, Richard Bedford Bennett, the eleventh prime minister of Canada, became Prime Minister because Mackenzie King was thrown out of power. He was the Prime Minister even throught the Great Depression, during that time, he tried his best to try not to get Canada involved in the Great Depression. When he was Prime Minister, one big thing he did was that he increased the trade between Canada and the British Empire. -
Statutue of Westminister
This was enforced on December 11, 1931, to allow countries to become independant nations. This applied to six diminions, Canada as being one of them, but not including India. This was an act created by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in which all the dominions of the United Kingdom was capable of creating their own laws. -
New Deal
R.B. Bennett started broadcasting on radio on Januwar 2, 1935, telling Canadian citizens about the "New Deal" at the time of the Great Depression. Some things that he promised the citizens included, health and accident insurance, a revised old-age pension and agricultural support program, a maximum work week, etc. Those who had cars were not able to buy gas anymore, but instead, the cars were dragged by horses which were called, "Bennett Buggies". He tried to keep Canada away from the depression -
Ottawa Trek
This event was both an economic and social event. It happen during the Great Depression when many people got really angry and mad about the the way the relief camps were controlled and the condition in which they were in. Many of the men went on strike in Vancouver, British Columbia in April. Hundreds and thousands of men would try to stow away on trains that would lead them to Ottawa. Soon the men would have arrived in Ottawa. -
Ottawa Trek (continued...)
The reason for why they wanted to move to Ottawa was because they wanted medical care, the right to vote, and also better first aid.