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Spanish Flu
Who: Most victims were healthy young adults, affect juvenile, elderly, or weakened patients.
What: The name originanted in u.s but Spain, a neutral country in WWI
Where: Arctic and remote Pacific islands
When:1918s
Why: The flu pandemic was implicated in the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s
How: An estimated 50 million people, about 3% of the world's population . -
Prohibition
Who: Canadians: soldiers who came back from the war, citizens of Canada
What:Canada banned the production,import,&transportation of liquor across the country
Where: Canada
When: 1918
Why: Many workers did not bring their pay cheques home to their wives and children.
How: workers took the pay cheques to buy alcohol -
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The Winnipeg General Strike
Who: strikers and their friends and family
What: a number of people including immigrants, and workers went on strike
Where: Happend in Winnipeg, Canada
When:1919
Why: to stand up for themselves
How:a number of people including immigrants, and workers went on strike -
Group of Seven
Who: Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley. Tom Thomson (died in 1917).
What: Canadian landscape painters.
Where: Algonquin Park
When: 1920s
Why: The Group of Seven is most famous for its paintings of the Canadian landscape.
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Insulin
Who: Nicolae Paulescu
What: Insulin is a hormone that is central to regulating carbohydrate and fat metabolism in the body. Insulin causes cells in the liver, muscle, and fat tissue to take up glucose from the blood, storing it as glycogen in the liver and muscle
Where: University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest
When: 1921
Why:might hold the key to the treatment of diabetes.
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Foster Hewitt & Hockey Night in Canada
Who: Foster William Hewitt, OC (November 21, 1902 – April 21, 1985)
What: famous for his play-by-play calls for Hockey Night in Canada
Where: CBC . Canada
When: 1923
Why: the sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star told him that the Star was going to start its own radio station.
How:Hewitt became a reporter at the paper, and was ready to go on the air when CFCA was launched. CFCA's first hockey broadcast was on February 8, 1923 -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Who: Chinese Canadians
What: banning most forms of Chinese immigration to Canada.
Where: Canada
When: 1923
Why:the Chinese Immigration Act was passed
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Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
Who:Canadian military plane pilots
What: started off with doing stunts in the air, Performing for people at fairs.
where: Happend in Canada
when:1924
why:The pilots also got people to sit in the planes and got paid 2dollars for every flip they did -
Assembly Line
Who:Henry Ford
what: mass productions, Ford set up an assembly line that ran from one end to another
where: Canada
when:1927
why: Automobiles were made because it was more convient for people to drive in a car, than to walk -
Black Tuesday
Who: Canadians
What: The stock market crashed
Where: Canada
When: 1929
Why: Because everyone were selling their items for high price and everyone didn't buy them -
League of Indians
Who:Aboriginal people
What:Aboriginals were facing many difficulties to keep their culture.
Where: Canada
When: 1933
Why: Canada government wanted the Aboriginals to be absorbed into the Canadian culture
How: government made it illegal for Aboriginal nations to raise funds for land claims -
New Deal
Who:
What: When R.B Bennett promise retaliated against the smoot-Hawley tariff
Where: Canada
When:1933
Why: Because the economy suffered -
CBC- Canadian Broadcasting Company
Who: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as the CBC.French : la Société Radio-Canada
What:CBC is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada
Where: Canada,
When:1936
Why: first established in its present form on November 2, 1936.
