1920's Canada

1920's Canada

1. Autonomy

   • Britain
     • Balfour report 1926
   • Independence gained alone
     • Paris peace conference 1919
     • League of nations 1920
     • Chanak 1922
     • King Bing 1926
     • Art 1920's-1930's
     • Wesminister 1931
     • Hockey night 1931
     • CBC 1936
   • USA
     • Branch Plants
       • Factories + offices in Canada
     • Owns Canadian economy

2. Social History

   • Women
     • Arranged marriages
     • Couldn't divorce
     • Expected to have children
     • Money
       • Husbands
       • Closest male relative
     • 1918 women could vote
     • 1929 women considered peoples
       • Could become senators
     • Anges McPhail 1st elected women to house
   • Minorities/immigration
     • Chinese excluded
     • Japanese restricted to 150
       • Servants + labourers
   • School
     • Only until grade 8
     • Female teachers
   • Aboriginal Canadians
     • Land
       • Slowy seized by government
     • Culture
       • Potlatches banded
       • Ceremonial objects seized
     • Residential schools
       • 24% dead
       • Assimilation
       • Abused
       • Forced to go
   • Prohibition
     • Encouraged by women's union

3. Economy

   • Growth
     • Manufacturing
       • Radios
       • Appliances
     • More trade with USA
   • Rural
     • Farmers working long days
     • Low pay
   • Labor issues
     • Stikes
       • Winnipeg general strike
         • 1 Big union formed
       • 30 000 on strike
         • Union + non-union
       • Long term goals achieved
       • Collective barganing
       • Created distrust between workers + owners
     • Soldiers
       • Couldn't find jobs
       • Pentions
       • Higher wages
       • Shorter weeks
   • Inflation

4. Trends

   • Urbanization
     • People lived in cities
   • Regonalism
     • Concern of people in a region

5. Prime Minister

   • William Lyon Mackenzie King

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