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Residential Schools
The government created Residential Schools for indigenous children to assimilate them into Canadian culture. Indigenous children would be taken from their family's and be put in schools to learn how to be a proper Canadian. They were sexually, mentally and physically abused everyday, their spirits were completely broken. They were isolated from the outside world until they were ready to marry a white man or woman, so they could make white children, to over time eliminate the native in them -
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Spanish flu
The Spanish flu was an extremely contagious virus, many people around the world died from. The real cause of the Spanish flu is still unknown to this day, it is thought to have come from many different places, Camp Funston - A military base where right before an outbreak 48 soldiers died of flu like symptoms, the disease ridden trenches of WW1, Etc. Doctors really weren't able to do a lot, so they advised people to stay indoors closing most public places and told them to wear masks 24/7 -
Winnipeg General strike
Winnipeg's workers had enough. They were being taken advantage of, they demanded higher wages, an eight hour work day and for better working conditions. So many businesses went on strike, Bakeries, Garbage collectors, Fire Fighters, etc. The strike escalated quickly especially with foreigners, if they were caught they would be arrested and sent back to there home country without a hearing or a trail. Then ending in chaos, Bloody Saturday. -
Bloody Saturday
During the Winnipeg General strike, a big parade erupted. The mayor was getting very nervous since parades were illegal at the time. The parade got to the point were he had to call in reinforcements, the Royal Mounted Police and some men who wanted to start trouble. They showed up, charging and shooting into the crowd, killing one, injuring 30 an hundreds were later arrested. -
The Golden Age of Sports
The 1920s was the golden age of sports. People had a lot more spare time, so they listen to their favourite team playing on the radio, read about them in the paper or went to see them play in person. Women also were a huge part of the Olympics, and got so much recognition for there contributions. Sports were so big it brought friends and family together, just like how it does today. -
Xenophobia
Xenophobia is a condition were one has a fear or hated towards foreigners. This was a huge problem in Canada, so many foreigners were immigrating to Canada and a lot of Canadians were getting very nervous. Canadians were afraid that they were going to lose their jobs to the foreigners, and also wanted to stick to traditional norms and were not ready for the culture change in Canada at the time. -
Flappers
Flappers were young women who didn't care about the social norms of what a woman should wear/do. Flappers at the time were labeled as "dangerous", "outrageous" etc. That didn't stop them from doing what they wanted, smoking in pubic, dancing in jazz clubs etc. They wanted to be heard, and they wanted to have the same rights as men. -
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Prohibition
Some people around the world made it their goal to ban alcohol and believed that it was just an obstacle in the everyday life. The government passed laws were it was illegal to distribute alcohol etc. Many Canadians were not happy with this law, which then came "bootlegging" and "rum runners". Canadians would smuggle alcohol to the United States, since the U.S had stricter laws, and they would be paid a lot of money. But if caught you would either be thrown in jail your whole life, or be killed -
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Jazz Age
After the war, Jazz became very big in popularity. Jazz was the type of music you could dance to, have a good time with your friends and just forget everything that was going on. The music genre was all over the radio, everyone was listening to it, it became the "Soundtrack of the Roaring twenties" and everyone was loving it. -
Insulin
Dr. Frederick Banting suggested to a group at the University of Toronto to try a new experimental approach, later leading to the discovery of insulin. Diabetes was a huge issues that killed so many people because they did not get the proper treatment. Insulin has saved the lives of so many and has made so many people able to live happy healthy lives with diabetes. -
Foster Hewitt
Foster Hewitt made one of the first radio broadcasts of a hockey game using an upright telephone. Hewitt is huge is hockey history, broadcasting the first game from the maple leaves garden, and Hewitt was the very man who came up with the very famous saying "he shoots, he scores". -
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The Chinese Exclusion Act
Chinese Immigration was already heavily controlled, but this act
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Talkies
Up until 1927, silent movies were the big thing, and then came Talkies. Talkies were movies with sound, and became huge in popularity throughout the late 20s to early 30s, Everyone wanted to see what all the rage was about family, friends, etc. -
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The Persons Case
The Supreme Court of Canada declared that woman were not "persons". That did not sit well with the Famous Five (a group of women activists), they fought for the right of women to be appointed in the senate. The Persons case opened the senate to women, they could work for both the Upper House and the House of Commons. This was a huge step in woman's rights. -
Black Tuesday
Production was declining and unemployment was arising rapidly, causing the fall of the stock market. Thousands of investors were wiped out, losing billions of dollars. After that, it all went down hill
the whole world was in despair, leading us right into the Great Depression.
