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Branch Plants
Branch plants were a phenomenom of canada and the united states, where american companys would build factorys and branches of their companys in canada to skip all the taxes and tariffs of transporting goods over the border. -
Assembly line
The assembly line was created long before ford started using it, he however was the first to use it on the scale that he did, creating cars that were cheap and still well made, so that all middle class famlies could afford one. -
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Prohibition
Prohibition was the ban on sale or consumption of alchohol. It was put into place to help stop men from bringing their paychecks straight to a bar, instead of back to their families. prohibition was not a sucsess however, with speak easies and bootleggers, people were still drinking, but if they got caught they were arrested, it was reapealed by 1920 in every province but newfoundland which reapealed prohibition in 1924 -
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Spanish Flu
Spanish flu was a strand of unusually deadly influenza virus, the virus spread to over 500 million people across the world including remote pacific islands and the artic, it killed 50-100 million people worldwide, 3-5 percent of the worlds population at the time making it one of the worlds worst deadliest disasters in history. -
League of Indians
The league of indians was created to help native peoples who had been not given the same rights and privliges that anyother citizen who fought in the war, and get native soldiers the same rights as anyother soldier. -
William lyon mackenzie king
William lyon mackenzie king was first voted into office in 1921, he then lost the seat in 1925, but got it back during the depression in 1935 using the slogan "king or chaos".
King did a lot for canadian autonomoy including, having the canadian government declare war a week after britan declared war on germany, showing that canada was starting to make its own political decisions and becoming its own country. -
The Discovery of Insulin
On january 23rd, dr. fredrick banting and charles best first injected insulin into a diabetec 14 year old boy who was dying from diabetes, when they injected him with the insulin the boy immediately gained strength, they had created the cure for diabetes. -
Winnipeg General Strike
The winnipeg general strike was caused by lack of pay and safety for people in their jobs, the strikers gathered around the main streets of winnipeg to protest and bargain for better working conditions and better pay -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The chinese exclusion act was created to stop virtually all immigrants of asian descent or heritege. -
R.C.A.F
The Royal canadian airforce was created as the successor to the canadian airforce, which served in world war 1, the rcaf was used mostly for civilion purposes, such as forestry, surveying and anti-smuggling patrols. It recived budget cuts in the early 1930's but was rebuilt in the late 30s and during world war 2 expanded into the 4th largest allied airforce. -
Person's Case
The persons case was a constitutional case that decided women were eligable to sit on the canadian senate. the case was put forward by the famous five. -
Black Tuesday
Black tuesday was the day the stock market crashed, where almost every stock in the market fell in price, when people rushed to sell all their stocks to recover at least a bit of their money, the stocks fell even further, causing everything to become almost worthless. -
5 Cent Speech
The Five Cent Speech was a speech said by Mackenzie King in 1930 to avoid the Great Depression. The Five Cent Speech said that he wouldn't give any money who lost their jobs unless that province had a Liberal government. Due to this speech, this lead Mackenzie King out of the election and lead to a new Conservative Prime Minister R.B. Bennett. -
Bennett's new deal
Bennetts new deal consisted of several radio speeches where he promised to give canadians a maximum work week, a minimum wage, closer regulation of working conditions, unemployment insurance, health and accident insurance