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spanish flu
After the war, Canada was struck with a terrible epidemic called spanish flu. soldiers carried the virus with them from overseas. It spread out very quickly. It killed about 100 million people, and over 50 000 Canadians. -
Xenophobia
During the war, the Canadians badly became to intense dislike of foreigners. Plus canadian at that time really wanted british people to come to canada. Then the non-british, or foreigners were shut out. -
Winnipeg General Strike
Winnipeg was a growing economic centre at that time. And after the war, people there wanted to improve working and living conditions. They wanted 85 cents per hour, an 8 hour day and the right to collective bargaining. So 30 000 workers went on the strike. -
Jazz Age
Jazz music started in New Orleans (U.S.A.) among African Americans. This was the famous music in 1920s. They also had a crazy and funny dance at that time called the Charleston. -
insulin
in 1921, over a million people in north america had diabetes. and no one knew what caused the disease or how to treat it. But in 1922, the Canadian researchers find the treatment of solving this----insulin. Frederick banting was given the major credit for this discovery. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
During the war and after the war, the people in canada don't like the non-british or foreigners. Especially the Asians. (china) So they banned all the chinese except students, merchants, and diplomats from entering canada. From 1923 until the act was relealed in 1947, only 8 chinese people were admitted to canada. -
Radio
Radio originally invented in the 1880s. in 1919, gulielmo marconi invented the first wireless radio. And in 1925, Ted Roger (Canadian) improve it, he invented the radio which didn't need batteries. -
Person's case
A women's group called the famous five (important people:Cairine Wilson---was the first women who appointed to the Senate) campaigned that women should be considered “Persons” under Canadian Law. in 1927, they failed, but they didn't give up. They continued to fight for the right to vote, and brought their case to a special council in England. Finally,they succeed in 1929 . the law was granted by Britain’s Privy Council. -
Causes of the Great Depression
the effects that causes the great depression are 1. Too much production 2. Canada depended on a few primary products 3. Canada needed the U.S.A. too much 4. High Tariffs 5. Too much credit buying 6.Buying on Margin -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was the day the stock market crashed on October 1929. This was one of the most dramatic events of the Depression. Many people who invested in the stock market lost everything in the crash. And the country became so poor during the following years. -
Great Depression
At that time, canada was plunged into the great depression--the worst economic downturn the country has ever faced. the stockmarket crashed helped starting the great depression -
residential schools
the Canadian government and the Christian churches believed that Abriginal people are wild, not civilized. The government wanted to be assimilation. So they set some residential schools to let the abriginal children forgot their old tranditions and culture. Actually the children inside the schools had a bad treatment. -
Relief
During the great depression, people has no job and money. so the government given to some of the unemployed something to do to keep them from starving. the government made the relief camps (special work camps throughout the country) to keep people working. Workers made only 20 cents per day. -
Bennett Buggy
A horse-car.People did this because during the depression, they did not have money to keep a car running, And it named the Prime Minister's name at that time. ( R.B Bennett) Because people thought he was not doing enough to help people. -
Joseph Armand Bombardier
He invented the snowmobile. His son had a serious disease, he need to send to the hospital immediately. But the hospital was far away and the time was in winter. So there's no way to let his son got into the hospital. So finally his son died. After this, Joseph Armand Bombardier set out to work on developing a machine that would end the isolation of winter. Finally he was granted a patent for his snowmobile, which was called the B7. and it cost $7500 that time. -
On to Ottawa Trek
the men fed up with life in the British Colunmbia relief camps, so on June 3, 1000 strikers climbed on the CPR train, they “rode the rails”, looking for work in other Canadian cities. They went to the Western of Canada, Ottawa. this was the protest of relief camp workers.
