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The Residentail schools were schools usally run by the church that would take the first nations children from their homes and out them in the schools, the purpose of the schools were to "take the indian out of the child". These schools went wrong when the children started getting abused by the teachers and leaders. They would also die from malnourishment and disases. They began in the 1880s and 150,000 First Nations children attended the schools until 1996. -
October 1st 1908, the ford model-T was a self starting vehicle with a left-sided stearing wheel, a four-cylinder engine with a detachable roof. It costed $15,000 dollars. -
The Spanish flu started in 1918 (it was the most servier pandemic in recent history). It was caused by an 41N1 virus. There was not universal consequences for this virus but it did spread world wide during 1918-1919. -
The Winnipeg Strike was the largest strike in Canadian history, between May 15th and June 25th 1919. The strike was for the right to better wadges and better working conditions. June 21st 1919 near the end of the strike two men were killed and 27 were injured due to the strike getting violent. This is called Bloody Saturday. -
The Group Of Seven once known as the Algonqin School, was a group of Canadian landsacpe painters from 1920 to 1933. The seven men were Franklin Charmichel, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank Jhonson, Aurthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Fredrick Valrey. -
The power Radio was introduced during WW1, Radios became a common thing in American homes in the 1920s. Hundred of radio stations boomed over the decades. By 1950 60% of homes had a radio. -
Talkies were films with sound! The fist musical film was released in 1927. It was called "The Jazz Singer". This was very exiting for people in this time because it was new and exiting. -
The flapper dancer name came to be because George Oraves thought the name was related to a bird. Also a women flapping her arms while doing the Charelston (a very popular dance of the 1920s). The most popular dancer was Louise Brooks born November 14th 1906 and died August 6th 1985. -
The Pearsons Case was the fight for Women in Canada to be voted into the Senete.There were five women in this case: Aenrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parbly. -
The deppression began after the stock market crash in October of 1929, this was because there were not many people working and there were no supplies ans people started to lose their jobs and money, they began to starve. The deppression is the reason for the decaeds nick-name, the dirty thirtes. -
Relif money also know as "The Dole" was a small amount of money for,e the government gave to the poor and unemployed. It could usally buy the nessary things like flour, pork, peas, corn meal, molasses, and coca. It would just buy the "Needs". -
Febuary 1930 Makenize King gave a speech about how he thought the Canadian goverment should NOT give unemployment benifits to people (the speech casued Makenize King to lose the election). -
A Bennette Buggie was a term used to desribe a car witch had its windows, engine, and frame work taken out and it was pulled by a horse and buggie., This was becasue R.B. Bennette (the 10th primeinister of Canada) failed at dealing with the deppression and people became very poor. -
Many new partys formed in the 1930s, the most popular party of the 1930s was the Democratic party on Canada. The least popular party in Canada was the Republic party.