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Canada Entering WWI
Progress and Decline rating>(+1); Canada was apart of the British Empire which intern automatically entered Canada to join the war and send soldiers to help the cause. -
Canadian Women and Men Enlisting(Soldier and nurse enlistment)
Progress and Decline rating>(+1); Both Men and women were given the opportunity to prove themselves while both protecting their families and furthering our country. -
First Nations Soldiers and the Loss of Men
Progress and Decline rating>(-2); Just under 50% of men in the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion had lost their lives in the first 48 hours of the 2nd Battle of Ypres and experienced unexplainable pain and hardship. Many of those men where First Nations and also discriminated during and after the war. -
End of WW1
Progress and Decline>(+1); On the 11th day of November 1918, It was officially declared that Germany had surrendered and that day was marked as the end of the war. -
Immigration Ban Lifted for Sikh Families
Progress and Decline rating>(+1); In 1919, Prime Minister Borden lifted the Immigration ban allowing Indian immigrants that currently lived in Canada to bring their families over to Canada. -
Bloody Saturday
Progress and Decline rating>(-2); During the General strike in Winnipeg more that 25,00 people participated in the strike and many of those where killed by law enforcement agents. -
Residential Schools for First Nations Children
Progress and Decline rating>(-2); In 1920 the General of Indian Affairs made an agreement with a number of church’s to create residential schools for First nations, Metis and Inuit children to be forcibly implemented into the schools. -
Housewives and electrical advancements
Progress and Decline rating>(+1); Canadian housewives and Canadians in general had been given access to electrical machinery in the recent advances of it to increase the efficiency and speed of many tasks around the household. -
The Chinese Immigration Act
Progress and Decline rating>(-2); The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 was introduced to prohibit Chinese residents and/or people from entering Canada. -
Cairine Wilson and The Famous Five
Progress and Declione rating>(+2); Women had decided to fight for their rights and wanted a say in the decisions that were being made. By 1930 the first female senator was appointed by the name of Cairine Wilson.
