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Indian act(226)
The Indian Act (full name is an decree designed to amend and consolidate laws concerning Indians, Indian Act) ("the Act") is a parliamentary law in Canada that involves registered Indians, Its band and Indian system. Reserve funds. This is the main document, which defines how the Canadian government interacts with the 614 aboriginal bands and their members in Canada. This is the main document, which was first adopted in 1876 and has been revised. -
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Residential schools(228)
Boarding schools are government-sponsored religious schools established to absorb Aboriginal children into European Canadian culture. Although the first residential facility was established in New France, it usually refers to schools established after 1880. -
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Suffrage(202 part 1)
Women's suffrage in Canada occurred at different times in different jurisdictions and at different times to different demographics of women. Women's right to vote began in the three prairie provinces. In 1916, suffrage was given to women in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. -
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Suffrage(202 part 2)
In 1916, suffrage was given to women in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The federal government granted limited war-time suffrage to some women in 1917, and followed with full suffrage in 1918. By the close of 1922, all the Canadian provinces, except Quebec, had granted full suffrage to White and Black women. Newfoundland, at that time a separate country, granted women suffrage in 1925. Women in Quebec did not receive full suffrage until 1940. -
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Group of seven (215)
The Group of Seven (G-7) is an intergovernmental organisation composed of the world's largest developed economies: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. -
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Child Labor Laws(239)
The phenomenon of child labor continued into the 20th century in an invisible form. Between the Confederation and the mid-1920s, humanitarian organisations hoped to bring about 80,000 British children (mostly under the age of 14) to Canada, hoping that they would get a new starting point from a working-class background. -
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Insulin(218)
It is the most famous medical discovery in Canada in the 20th century. It won the Nobel Prize in 1923 and inspired further medical research in Canada. In 1921, Frederick Banting was inspired to extract internal secretions from the pancreas to treat diabetes. -
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Chinese Exclusion Act(235)
The 1923 Chinese Immigration Act is today known as the Chinese Exclusion Act (the duration of which is called the "Exclusion Era"). It is a bill passed by the Canadian Parliament prohibiting most forms of Chinese immigration to Canada. -
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Persons Case(204)
The Personnel Case (Edwards v. Canada A.G.) is a constitutional ruling that establishes the right of women to be appointed to the Senate. The case was initiated by five famous female activists "Famous Five" -
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Immigration policies(232)
Immigration policy is the country’s transit policy that deals with the transit of cross-border people, especially those who intend to work and live in the country. Immigration policies range from completely banning immigration to allowing most types of immigration, such as free immigration. -
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Regina Riot(258 part 1)
People working in the relief camp tried to jump on the train to Ottawa to protest unfair wages and conditions. The government tried to stop this situation because they did not want a group of protesters in Parliament. Therefore, with 1,600 strikers still in Regina, Bennett invited the trek leader Slim Evans to a meeting. -
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Regina Riot(258 part 2)
(The waiting area of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Camp) A public meeting on the market square announced the breakdown of the talks. At 8:00 in the evening, a whistle sounded and the police had begun to attack the strikers. Hikers in the nearby stadium were detained in a temporary prison. -
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On-to-Ottawa Trek(257)
The Ottawa trek was the result of unrest among unemployed single men in federal relief camps. Due to the Great Depression, the Federal Relief Camp was introduced under the government of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett. The Great Depression paralysed the Canadian economy, and one in nine citizens was rescued. -
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The ST. Louis(274)
• In 1939, a passenger ship carrying Jewish refugees from Germany arrived in Canada
• They were refused in Canada, USA, and Cuba
• They were forced to return to Germany, where more than 500 of them would die in the Holocaust. -
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National Unity Party of Canada (Fascists)
The leader of the NUPC was Adrien Arcand . His platform was industry and all areas of society are nationalized and controlled by the central government. The party was characterized by a hatred for liberalism, socialism, democracy; also by extreme patriotism and aggressive nationalism, and hostility of other races. On May 30, 1940, Arcand was arrested in Montreal for "plotting to overthrow the state"