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Starting in the early 1930's, Canada and the rest of the world faced a huge economic issue after a stock market crash left millions of Canadians unemployed, hungry and homeless.
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R.B Bennett severed as the 11th prime minster of Canada from 1930 to 1935. Bennett helped many poor people and young men into university. He was the one of the richest Canadians at that time.
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The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II. Canada's role in the war was to escort for the hundreds of convoys that were in Halifax, Sydney and Nova Scotia.
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After Germany invaded Poland the United Kingdom and France declared war on September 3. To assert Canada's independence from the UK, as already established by the Statute of Westminster 1931, Canada's political leaders decided to seek the approval of the federal parliament to declare war.
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The House of Commons approved the Canadian Bill of Rights. While not provincially binding, the bill obliged the federal government to guarantee civil rights and freedoms to all Canadians.
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U.S. and South Vietnamese forces attack communist bases across the Cambodian border in the Cambodian Incursion. Having rebuilt their forces and upgraded their logistics system, North Vietnamese forces triggered a major offensive in the Central Highlands in March 1975.
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This protest tackled women’s representation in everything from advertising to dress, insisted on respect for non-mainstream identities and demanded reform of government and the law.
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In 1999, Canada created a third territory called Nunavut. Nunavut was craved out of central and eastern Northwest territories. Nunavut means "our land" in Inuktitut, the Inuit language.
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