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Allowed police to arrest and imprison people born in enemy countries without charging them. The government labeled them " Enemy aliens" and began a national internee operation in which 8000 were imprisoned in the camp (-2 political and social change) -
A black Canadian soldier was recommended for a Distinguished Conduct medal for rescued his unit from an enemy machine gun nest. ( +1 social and political change) -
Introduced in 1917, allowed female relatives of soldiers, nurses, and women who worked in the armed force to vote in the election. ( +1 social and political change) -
In 1917 the government released the Miltary Act, which caused conscription and greatly divided the country in half. After all the incident, less than 1% of soldiers was sent overseas. ( -2 political and social change) -
In 1917 the government introduced a tax based on yearly income to most Canadians expect those who are serving overseas and low income. Taxpayer that did not submit a tax return were fined $100 per day until a maximum of $10000 (+1 economic change and -1 social change ) -
Two ships collide, producing a force bigger than any man-made explosion before it. More than 1500 people were killed immediately, and a hundred died from their injuries soon after. ( -2 social change ) -
In May, the OBU (One Big Nation) called out a general strike. Over 30,000 workers walked off the job. In the same year, in June, the Royal Northwest Mounted police charged into a protest by striking workers downtown turned into violent. Over 100 people were injured, and one worker was killed. ( -1 social and economic change) -
Canada independently sign the treaties of Verseiles that formally end the war.( +2 social and political change) -
A young woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank, smoked and said “unladylike” things to be more sexually free. ( +2 social change ) -
Four doctors at the University of Toronto - Frederick Banting, Charles H. Best, James Bertram Collip, and J.J.R. Macleod - discovered a secretion of the pancreas that helps burn the sugar in our blood and convert it to energy. They called the secretion insulin. ( +1 social change)