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Canada: The Roaring Twenties & The Dirty Thirties
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Prohibition
More Info Prohibition banned the manufacturing, selling, and transportation of alcohol. The Government believed that grain should be used to feed soldiers and not to make alcohol. The positive impact this had on the nation included decreasing crime rate and workers taking their money home to their families. The negative impact included hard for police to enforce, the rise of organized crime. -
Residential Schools
More Info The Indian Act was a law passed by the Canadian Parliament in 1876. In 1920, the Indian Act was amended to mandate Residential Schools. Indigenous children were taken away from their families, made to fit European Canadian culture, and forced to adopt Roman Catholic religion. Indigenous children suffered at these schools, being physically, sexually and mentally abused, some even dying. -
Flapper
More Info A Flapper describes the new socially rebellious and younger generation of women in the 1920s. They would cut their hair short and wear boxy dresses, completely changing society's outlook on women. -
Radio
The Radio was a invention that provided a cheap and convenient way of conveying information and ideas. The radio acted as both a way to communicate and became another from of entertainment. -
Rum Runners
Rum Runners were people that would illegally distribute, transport and sell alcohol for profit. In the 1920s the government of Canada had enforced prohibition and many people began to make profits. Ways in which rum runners would illegally bring alcohol into other countries is through the woods into Quebec to Main, through New Hampshire, across Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, schooners would meet along the Atlantic Coast, and a small fleet of World War One planes would fly it across the borders. -
Agnes Macphail
More Info Agnes MacPhail became the first woman elected to Canada's House of Commons, on December 6th, 1921, and served as a Member of Parliament from 1921 to 1940 who ran for the Progressive Part -
Insulin
Frederick Banting from Alliston, Ontario, discovered and developed Insulin, a drug that has saved millions of people living with diabetes. Rather then diabetes being a death sentence with insulin it became something that could manged -
Chinese Exclusion Act
More Info The Chinese Exclusion Act was law passed by the Canadian Government that affected Chinese and other Asian groups in Canada. The law made it so Asians could not immigrate to Canada and if Chinese males were already in Canada they could not bring their wife or children to Canada. -
Person’s Case
More Info The Persons Case gave women the right be appointed to the Senate.The case began in 1927 by The Famous Five, a group of women activists. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that women were not “persons” according to the British North America Act. When this case was brought to The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council they reversed the Court’s decision. Because of this women were now able to be appointed senate. -
Black Tuesday
More Info Many people bought stocks on margin to buy stocks, pushing prices to unsustainable levels. Black Tuesday is the day the stock market crashed which was on October 29, 1929. On this day many stocks lost their value , and all at once many people wanted to sell their shares but very few people wanted to buy. This brought the market into a further plummet which eventually crashed the stock market. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. Many people fell in to deep debt, lost jobs and had no source of income. In Canada the Great Depression was caused by over production, over expansion, Canada's dependence on a few primary products (wheat, fish, minerals, pulp and paper) and Canada’s dependence on American trade. -
Relief
Relief also known as the Dole was a benefit paid by the government to the unemployed. The dole was in the form of 20 million dollars to -
Five Cent Speech
The Federal Government was slow to act as they were reluctant to become involved in the economy and individuals lives. MacKenzie's plan was to wait out economic decline, as he thought that the depression would be resolved on its own in a short duration. Mackenzie King made a speech in which he stated that the Canadian government should not give unemployment benefits to provincial governments and that "I would not give them a five-cent piece." -
The Statute of Westminster
More Info On December 11, 1931, the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster. The Statute of Westminster gave Canada autonomy and could no longer controlled by the British monarch. Britain could no longer create laws for Canada as it became its own self-governed country. -
Relief Camps
More Info In 1932 the government set up many relief camps across the country for single, unemployed and homeless Canadian men. The camps were located in isolated northern areas of the country. In exchange for shelter, meals, clothes, medical care and 20 cents. They would work eight hours a day in the camps completing manual labour jobs. -
Dealing with Hardships
Because of the depression people had to find way to save money. People would remake old clothing, send their kids away to a relative and attach car body to farm animal to substitute gas.As times became more difficult people began to blame Bennett for their problems. These were all the nicknames the people used to ridiculed Bennett for his poor job of stopping the great depression. -
On to Ottawa Trek
More Info On June 1935 many men across the country were fed up with the life in relief camps and boarded freight trains to Ottawa to protest to the government. Their journey became known as the On-to-Ottawa Trek. The men wanted a better minimum wages and a genuine system for unemployment insurance. However the men were stopped at Regina by mounted police.