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Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu was the most damaging empidemic of influenza, it appeared during WW1 in 1918 and ended in April 1920. It moved from France to Spain in the fall 1918. It was heard about through Spanish news and was estimated about 2 million cases. It was really easy to spread, medical and nursing staff across the provice had been depleted due to the war. It was assumed that it was brought into Canada by troops returning from Europe. Overall it brought a huge social and economic impact. -
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Canadian History 1920's & 1930's Timeline
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Bloody Saturday
Near the end of the Winnipeg General Strike, which was the largest strike in Canadian history. There was a tragic event called "Bloody Saturday," it left one man dead and 30 injured as 30,000 strikers took the street and fought the North West Mounted police. This was caused by people throwing rocks and bricks into a parade which caused a riot. -
Flapper
Flappers of the 1920s were young women know for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous, immoral, and dangerous. They wore a fashionable short flapper dress, usually calf-revealing length and lower neck lines. They wore high heels and gleefully applied rouge, lipstick, mascara, and other cosmetics. Flappers perferred shorter bobbed hairstyles. -
Radio
The radio was originally invented during the 1890s by a man named Guglielmo Macroni. He made practical improvements to develop them into a commercial system of wireless telegraphy during the 1920s. It also began to brodcast things like popular music, sporting events, lectures, fictional stories, newscasts, weather reports, market updates, and political commentary. -
Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a period during the 1920s to the 1930s that invovled new styles of music like jazz, and new dance moves like the Charleston and the Tango. It brought joy and entertainment after the First World War and everyone was happy for once. -
Prohibition
Prohibition was the legal prevention to manufacture, sell, and transport any alcoholic beverages. This went on from 1920 to 1933 and people were not very happy about it. Many people were still willing to drink alcohol illegally, which brought a spike to Bootlegging/Rumrunners. Bootleggers and Rumrunners were people who would secretly transport booze to the US by boats, trucks, planes, and sometimes by foot. -
Residential Schools
Residential Schools went on between the 1870s to 1997. On April 1 1920, they became mandatory. They were government-sponsored religous schools that were established to assimilate indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture. More than 150,000 first nations, Metis and Inuit children were forced to attend. Many of the children at residential schools were physically, sexually, mentally, and phychologically abused in a system described by the TRC. -
Persons Case
The Persons Case was a case that allowed the right for women to become a senate. This case was fought in 1927 by "The Famous Five," which included Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise Mckinney, and Irene Parbly. In 1928, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that women were not "persons," which means that they couldn't run for senate. Although, the Judicial Committee of Privy Council reserved the final decision on October 18, 1929, this case allowed women to be senate. -
Talkies
Talkies were basically movies, except without the talking, well some included sound effects. They were another source of entertainment for people during the 1920's. They included stars like Charlie Chaplin who was considerd one of the film industry's most important figures, he stared in movies like "The Kid", "The Tramp", and "The Gold Rush". There were also stars like Rudolph Valentino and Mary Pickford who earned 10,000 dollars a week, but hated her own films because she thought did bad. -
Causes of the Great Depression
The Great Depression was a huge worldwide economic depression. Some causes of this worldwide depression include over production and over expansion which can branch off of the stock market crash, Canadas dependence on a few primary products like wheat, fish, minerals, pulp and paper, Canadas dependence on the USA for 65% of all imports, high tariffs killing international trade by trying to protect local business, to much credit buying and too much credit buying of stocks buy on margin. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was known as one of the causes of The Great Depression. It was the day of the biggest stock market crash worldwide. Prices dropped, people rushed to sell their stocks, which made the prices drop even faster, some people even spent their life savings all at once. The market fell 13% and a further 12% on Black Tuesday, people were shocked and confused, some people even dropped to the floor. -
Relief
Relief was an emergency financial assitance given to some of the unemployed and unfortunate people to keep them from starving and being totally poor. The 1930s economical Great Depression caused relief to rise, many people went to try and save them and their families during this horrible time. This led to relief camps, which were recruiting single men 18 years of age and older who worked 8 hours a day, and in return were given food, shelter, clothing, and pay 20 cents a day. -
5 Cent Speech
Presented by W. L. Mackenzie King the prime mininster during the start of the Great Depression. The "5 Cent Speech" was about waiting the Great Depression out, he believed that the Canadian government should not give unemployment benefits to provincial governments in Canada with Conservative leadership. Hundreds of Canadians were out of work during this time, and he was doing nothing about it. -
On-to-Ottawa Trek
Thousands of men fed up with the life in the British Columbia Relief Camps boarded freight trains bound for Ottawa to protest to the government. They were called Trekkers, they wanted to clear economic reforms such as minimum wages and a genuine system of social and unemployment insurances.
