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The Winnipeg General Strike was one of the biggest labour actions where two workers were killed and 30 were injured during the protesting.
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Frederick Banting discovered one of the most important medical breakthroughs called Insulin. With his discovery, he helped all the vulnerable people with diabetes by giving them insulin. Frederick Banting, Charles Best and J.B. Collip helped treat diabetes in the late 1922s. In 1923, Frederick Banting and J.R.R. Macleod got the Nobel Prize for discovering insulin. Banting and Macleod shared their award money with Best and Collip.
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Canadians discriminated against the Chinese by creating a law called the Chinese Immigration Act to exclude them from entering Canada even though they made many sacrifices for them such as building the railway called The Canadian Pacific Railway that took 4 years to build.
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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. This speech, lead Mackenzie King out of the election and lead to a new Conservative Prime Minister R.B. Bennett.
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During World War 2, Canada arrested Italian people and sent them to camps under the War Measures Act. Mostly men were arrested but some of the men's families had to follow them and some of the men's positions were seized by the government. The arrests started on June 10 when Italy declared war on Canada so a total of 700 Italians were affected by the arrests.
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The Japanese-Canadians were held in internment camps with no running water or electricity, where they were treated very poorly, and unfortunately, many of them died. An example of the poor treatment they got was when anti-Japanese signs were put up, stating, "Japs Keep Moving This Is A White Man's Neighborhood.
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The 1770 KM long Canadian Oil Pipeline extending from the Great Lakes to Edmonton is finally completed
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Canadian Prime Minister Lester B Pearson at the time decided to use the maple leaf flag instead of the old flag that Britain gave to Canada. This became a very important Canadian identity because Canada has its own flag.
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The Royal Commission on the Status of Women helped women gain equal rights and opportunities as men. Women were paid equity, birth control and abortion rights, employers can’t discriminate against a person due to their gender or marital status, education and women’s access to managerial positions, etc.
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During the October Crisis, the government carried out the War Measure Act in Quebec and banned Quebecer rights. They also arrested 465 people and held them without charge.
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Marc Garneau was the first Canadian in space to take part in three flights aboard NASA Space shuttles. This was very important to Canada because it helps to develop the Canadian space program further in the future
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The North American Free Trade Agreement has brought economic growth and rising standards of living for people in all three countries but also created hard conditions for some Canadian businesses.
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Canada continues its peacekeeper role in the world and sends soldiers over Afghanistan right after the 911 attack to fight against terrorism in order to remove the Taliban from the government..
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Vancouver Winter Olympics successfully held in Canada, and ended on Feb. 28, 2010. Canada was in the first place who had 26 medals in total.
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The year 2020 started off in a Global Pandemic that had an effect on everyone lives making us have to wear a mask and having to follow protocol around town
