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Canada entering WW1 led to massive funding from Britain and job creation +1
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The military expansion helped strengthen our country and build the economy. Canada's military spending budget increased to over $700,000,000 with the help of Britain. +1
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Canada put German and Astro Hungarian immigrants into internment camps during the war. -2
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The expansion of factories for war production greatly increased the amount of jobs available, equality in the workplace (inclusion of women), and big economic gain ($2,000,000 a day) +2
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Although conscription got more men onto the frontlines, a lot of people like French Canadians and Immigrants were unethically forced to fight for a country they don't support (Britain). -1
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Hectic routes through Halifax harbour caused the Mont-Blanc and the Imo to collide, igniting the munitions onboard and causing the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. Although tragic, bearing great loss of life, the Halifax explosion generated better policies for schools and harbour safety. -1
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The 1917 election was the first election woman could vote in. This was due to the war and the government seeing women who married men who served as “heroic”. This later lead to the Person’s act. +2
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Residential Schools were probably one of the ugliest things in Canadian history. They assimilated Indigenous children into Christianity and ripped them from their families. Some even died and hundreds were abused. -2
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The Indian Act was very bad a restrictive, making it illegal for Indigenous Canadians to get a lawyer or challenge government from taking their land. -2
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The Person's act let women be elected to the Supreme Court and senate. This furthered gender equality in Canada. +2
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The Canadian GNP grew extensively from 1917-1929 up to almost $700,000,000. +2
