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Spanish Flu
Historical Significance: Was the most damaging epidemic of influenza in the world, killed about 50 000 Canadians.
What: The most damaging epidemic of influenza which is an infectious epidemic disease caused by a virus.
Who: seemed to kill young and hearty people
Where: Canada
When: Sept, 9, 1918
Why: was brought to Canada by returning troops after World War 1
How: The virus enters the body through the respiratory tract, and soon spreads to cause symptoms that include muscular pain and neuralgia. -
Prohibition
Historical Significance: this taught the government tax bad habits instead of forbidding them
Who: Canadians who hated this law
What: the banning of production, import, and transportation of liquor across Canada
Where: Canada & U.S
When: 1918
Why: crime rates were increasing
How: cause problems in the economy because Canada lost a lot of money from taxes in liquor stores. Also, bootleggers and speakeasies sold illegal liquor. -
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!920s & 1930s
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The Winnipeg General Strike
Historical Significance:was Canada's best-known general strike
Who:started with the Building and Metal Trades Councils in Winnipeg, soon thousand of other workers went on strike too
What:A general strike, which almost all industries and key services were shut down
Where:Winnipeg
When:May, 15, 1919
Why:Massive unemployment and inflation
How:Many immigrant workers moved to Winnipeg wanting to improve working and living conditions, which made the wealthier citizens suspicious. Tensions grew high. -
League Of Indians
Historical Significance:was the first attempt at a united voice for Aboriginal nations
Who:Frederick Loft was a Mohawk veteran who started the organization
What:A national organization to bring First Nation groups together
Where:the organization held its annual meetings in the West because that region had the most active members.
When:Sept, 2, 1919
Why:to improve the lives of Aboriginal people across Canada
How:Loft wrote letters to band councils on reserves around Canada -
Group Of Seven
Historical Significance:nobady displayed the beauty of Canadian landscapes before
Who:Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. Macdonald and F.H.Varley
What:organization of self-proclaimed modern artists that painted Canadian landscapes
Where:founded in 1920
When:Toronto
Why:Tom Thomson was a outsdoorman & awakened thier intertests of painting
How:came together with common fustration with the conserative and imitative quailty of most Canadian art -
Prime Minister: Mackenzie King
Historical Significance:helped people get through the Great Depression & World War 2, & helped reduce depts.
Who:Prime Minister of Canada from Liberal party
What: dominated the Liberal party & political life in Canada
Where:born in Berlin on 1874
When:Dec 1921-Jun 1926, Sept 1926-Aug 1930, Oct 1935-Nov 1948
Why:made Liberal policies acceptable to different groups and regions across the nation. He listened to what different region Canada wanted.
How:governed Canada from his different experiences -
Insulin
Historical Significance: first medicine to treat diabetes
Who: Frederick Banting and his assistant Charles Best
What: a medicine that treats medicine
Where: University of Toronto
When: Late 1922
Why: in 1921, over a million people in North America had diabetes, but no one knew how to solve it
How: Banting took hormones from dogs and injected into humans -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Historical Significance: July, 1, 1923 is known as “Humiliation Day” to Chinese Canadians
Who: Chinese Immigrants
What: An act that stopped all Chinese immigration except for students, merchants, and diplomats into
Canada
Where: Canada
When: July, 1, 1923
Why: there were concerns that too many Chinese men were taking jobs away from white people.
How: Canada passed the act -
Person's Case
Historical Significance:changed the conditions for women to ensure women could participate in all aspects in public life
Who:The "Famous 5" is made up of five Alberta women
What:it showed the inequality women faced
Where:Canada
When:Oct, 18, 1929
Why:Before the case, women were known as "non-persons," and governments said that women were not allowed to be appointed to the Senate.
How:persuaded the Government of Canada to help them persuade the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council -
Black Tuesday
Historical Significance: most famous stock crash in history, the beginning of the Great Depression
Who: many people who bought stocks
What: the day the New York Stock Exchanged crashed
Where: New York
When: Oct, 29, 1929
Why:People started selling their stocks all at the same time. Investors couldn't pay interests for their accounts causing the banks to go out of business.
How:Many people started buying stocks, but then soon realized the stock value was much higher then they were really worth. -
Foster Hewitt and Hockey Night In Canada
Historical Significance: first play-by-play hockey games broadcast over the radio
Who: Foster Hewitt
What: radio broadcasts where Hewitt would announce the play-by-play hockey games
Where: his first show was in the gondola over the rink in Maple Leafs Gardens, but now the show is broadcasted in CND
When: first show in 1931
Why: because of Hewitt’s love for the game, and hockey was very popular
How: Hewitt would broadcast games over a telephone connected to the radio station -
Statute of Westminster
Historical Significance: it made Canada and other Dominions an independent country
Who: Canada and other Dominions
What: a British law clarifying the powers of Canada's Parliament and other Dominions, and giving them the choice to have full freedom or not
Where: Britain
When: December, 11, 1931
Why: the request and with the consent of the Dominions
How: passed by the British Parliament. -
New Deal
Historical Significance:Jan, 1937 the Judical Committee Of The Privy Council declared most of the "New Deal" ultra vibes
Who: R.B Bennett
What:The New Deal promised a more progressive taxation system, a maximum work week, a minimum wage, closer regulation of working conditions, unemployment insurance, health and agricultural support programs.
Where:Canada on the radio
When:Jan, 2, 1935
Why:to try to win the election
How:Bennett started a series of live radio speeches about a New Deal for Canada -
On To Ottawa Trek
Historical Significance:defining event of the Great Depression
Who:Thousands of unemployed men
What:the journey of thousands of men who boarded trains for Ottawa to protest the government
Where:The trekkers got as far as Regina
When:Jan, 3, 1935
Why:thousands of men were fed up with life in the B.C relief camps. The trekkers wanted clear economic reforms such as minimun wages and a genuine system of social and unemployment insurance
How:strikers organized themselves into divisions, -
SS St.Louis
Historical Significance:many Jews eventually died in Nazi concentration camps, and now CAN is more open minded in accepting political refugees
Who:907 Jewish refugees
What:a ocean liner
Where:CAN’s East Coast
When:May,13,1939
Why:the Jews weren’t allowed entry because the Canadians believe that the Jews would not make excellent settlers
How:the Jews had already been denied entrance to Cuba and other Latin American countries, so they tried to go to CAN, but CAN refused them entry