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1919: League of Nations
- Was established during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, at the end of WW1
- Was the previous United Nations
- Purpose was to maintain world peace
- Prime Minister Robert Borden got Canada a separate seat, separate from Britain
- First representative on the League was Senator Raoul Dandurand
- Introduced Canada to opportunities/challenges of international relationships and peacekeeping
- Canada served on the council from 1927 to 1930
- The League of Nations was replaced at the end of WW2
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1922: Chanak Affair
- Declined to provide troops for Britain
- Another step to Canada’s independence
- Britain called the “Dominions to bring any soldiers for help
- Just became a independent member of league of nation
- British minister David Lloyd George assumed Canada to follow through with British orders
- William Lyon Mackenzie King was confused whether he should send troops over
- September 18, the cabinet discussed and agreed that only the parliament can decide for these matters.
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1926: King-Byng Crisis
- A Constitutional crisis which happened in 1926 It Began when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King requested that Governor General Lord Julian Byng dissolve parliament and conduct new elections. Which Byng refused.
- It all started up on October 29, 1925, with a Federal election in which various parties competed.
- Byng had Meighen, King’s long time rival, become prime minister
- Meighen’s term was short with king being re-elected in the 14th of September 1926
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1931: Statute of Westminster
- An act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1931
- It first began when Lord Balfour, Britain's Foreign Minister, had suggested that Dominions be given full independence
- It was a british law regarding Canada's new independence from Britain
- Canada now had the freedom to pass, amend, and repeal laws
- Dominions were granted full legal autonomy needed to build a legislative foundation upon which Canada stands today