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After WW1, a treaty was signed called the Treaty of Versailles. This was a peace treaty and the signers of the document (including Canada and Britain signing separately) thought that an international organization that would focus on maintaining stability in the world. The treaty also included an agreement to create the League of Nations. Canada signed this and this helped Canada have separate contact with foreign countries and helped it become independent from Britain. Change: political -
In 1920, Duncan Campbell Scott, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, had an agreement made between the government and churches to create the Residential School system for First Nations, Metis and Inuit children. All Aboriginal children between 7-15 were sent to these schools. There, they experienced physical, emotional, and verbal abuse from the faculty and some even died due to horrible living conditions. Change: political -
Starting in the 1920s, Canada started to demand more autonomy from Britain and become an independent nation of its own. After the Imperial Conference of 1923, Prime Ministers besides Robert Borden started to make it part of their agenda to get Canada more decision making power over its own country. Canada began to make its own decisions separate from Britain and Canada also became a member of the League of Nations separately from Britain. Change: political -
The Group of Seven comprised of environmental Canadian artists that formed in 1920 to create a painting style that would capture the beauty of the Canadian landscape. Many of the artists travelled all across Canada, painting scenes that have never been painted before (e.g. the arctic). They helped proved artists wrong that Canadian landscape was not meant for painting and helped made the Canadian landscape known to the public of Canada. Change: social -
During the course of the 1920s, Canada was prospering in the Olympics. For example, between 1920 and 1928, Canada was the dominant player in ice hockey, beating countries such as Czechoslovakia, the United States, and Sweden. Another achievement in this time was women in the Olympics. For example, in 1928, Canadian women won the sliver and bronze medals for the 100m dash and the relay team won gold in 4x100m. Change: social
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In 1922, Sir Fredrick Banting and a colleague of his discovered insulin from an ox to save people with diabetes. This helped people who were affected by diabetes regain a healthy life. Sir Fredrick Banting sold his insulin patent to the University of Toronto and received the Nobel Prize in 1923. Change: social -
In 1923, the Government of Canada passed the Chinese Immigration Act, which banned Chinese immigration for the country for 25 years. This act was based on race as Canada allowed European migration into the country. This act also limited the time of a Chinese person being out of the country (two years max.), and required every Chinese person to get an identification card. If they didn't, then they would be required to pay a $500 fine. Change: political -
By 1927, women can vote/be elected for the House of Commons, but not the Senate. Emily Murphy, a judge, challenged this by organizing five women with the same goal of trying to allow women to hold Senate (one of them was Nellie McClung, a known women's suffrage leader). They tried to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get it changed, but got denied. Later on, the British Privy Council reversed the decision and by 1930, the first female senator was elected. Change: social
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In 1928, a man by the name of Edward Rogers created the first battery-less radio tube in the world. Radios at the time required batteries to work, but this radio could work by merely plugging it into the wall socket. This revolutionize the radio in a great way by allowing it to always have power 24/7. -
The Great Depression was a great economic recession that happened in Canada from 1929 to 1939 (the start of WW2). Millions of Canadians were left unemployed and as many as 30% of workers had no jobs in 1933. This was even made worse by the fact that Canadians at the time didn't have adequate social benefits. Canada's Gross National Expenditure (overall spending) fell by over 40%. Change: economic
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