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Canada became a founding member of the League of Nations.
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The Treaty of Versailles ending the First World War took effect. It established the League of Nations, an organization for international co-operation, with Canada as a founding member.
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The first exhibition of the Group of Seven was put on display at the Art Gallery of Toronto. The Group articulated a sense of a distinctly Canadian art, rooted in the Canadian landscape.
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The Canadian Forum magazine was founded; it is Canada's oldest continually published political periodical.
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Robert Borden resigned and was succeeded as Conservative prime minister by Arthur Meighen.
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Mary Ellen Smith was appointed to the provincial Cabinet in BC, the first woman Cabinet minister in the British Empire
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The schooner Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
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The United Farmers of Manitoba won the provincial election, with John Bracken as premier.
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Britain sent a telegram calling upon the Dominions to contribute soldiers in a demonstration of the Empire's solidarity against the Turks. PM King was noncommittal.
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The "Halibut Treaty" with the US was the first treaty signed independently by Canada, without the participation of an Imperial delegate
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The Chinese Immigration Act was replaced by legislation that virtually suspended Chinese immigration on the day known to the Canadian Chinese as "Humiliation Day."
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The Home Bank of Montreal failed, the first chartered bank to do so since the Farmer's Bank in 1911.
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The Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association amalgamated with the Farmers' Union of Canada to create the United Farmers of Canada.
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The House of Commons approved the old-age pension plan.
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Mackenzie King's Liberals were defeated on a motion of censure. Governor General Byng refused to grant King's request to dissolve Parliament. Byng asked Arthur Meighen to form a government, which he did, on June 29.
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The Meighen government was defeated in a nonconfidence motion.
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In a federal election the Liberals and Conservatives reversed fortunes with the Liberals winning 116 seats and the Conservatives 91. The Progressives won 13 seats and the UFA 11; there were 14 others. King became prime minister again, forming a minority.
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Mackenzie King became prime minister again.
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The Balfour Report was adopted at the Imperial Conference, which met in London from October 19 to November 23. This was a resolution defining Britain and the self-governing Dominions as "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status."
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In the Persons Case, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decided women were not "persons" who could hold public office as Canadian senators. In 1929 the British Privy Council reversed the decision.
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At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam, Percy Williams of Vancouver won the gold medal in the 100 m sprint. He added gold in the 200 m August 1.
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The Imperial Privy Council ruled that women were legally "persons" and therefore could hold seats in the Canadian Senate.
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The selling of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange accelerated, leading to panic selling and tumbling prices. By Black Thursday, October 24, the economic boom of the 1920s was in ruins and the Great Depression began.
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A second stock market crash hit Canada.
