1920s Canada

1920s Canada

1. Economy

   • Strikes
     • Winnipeg General Strike
       • worker wanted higher wages and a shorter work week
       • 30000 people on strike
     • Canada 1919
       • No veteran pensions
       • No medical services for wounded soldiers
       • Few jobs
       • Rich Employers
       • Wages didn't cover the cost of rent and food
   • Growth
     • Industries
       • manufacturing
         • Radios
         • appliances
       • Natural resources exploration
       • hydroelecticity
     • U.S Investment
       • Owned more of Canada's industries
         • Pulp
         • Paper
         • Mining
     • One big union was formed
     • Regionalism
       • Concerns within the regions
   • Rural
     • People that lived on the farms didn't want growth in the economy

2. Social History

   • Women
     • Life for Women
       • Worked traditional jobs
       • Expected to marry
       • Arrange marriages
       • money and property belong to the husband
     • Women gained the right to vote
     • Women becoming a person
       • Debated by the Famous five
   • Minorities/Immigrants
     • Faced discrimination
     • Restrictions on Aisian immigration
       • Chinese were excluded
       • Japanese restricted to 150 servants and labourers per year
   • School
     • Separate schools for 'blacks' and 'Europeans
     • Segregated schools
   • Aboriginal Canadians
     • Residential Schools
       • Children were forced from their commutnies
       • Aboriginal culture and language was not taught to the generation that went to the schools
       • The children at the schools were abused
         • Aboriginal that came from the schools abused there children because they were abused when they were children
       • Loss of parenting skills
     • Land
       • The Royal Proclamation and land title in British columbia
         • Settlers of Canada could claim parts of Aboringial land with out negotiation
         • British Settlers built roads and railways through Aboriginal land
     • Culture
       • Banning traditional practices
         • Potlatches were banned
           • Some missionaries complained that potlatches encouraged non-productive behaviour
         • Banning the traditional council of Six Nations

3. Autonomy

   • USA
     • Branch Plants
       • Automobile companies
       • Oil Companies
     • Halibut Treaty
       • Fishing treaty with the US
     • 1920s Investment in Canada
       • British investment declined
       • US investment Increased
     • 1930s Radio
   • Canada's Independence
     • 1919 Paris Peace conference
       • Canada held their own seat from Britain
     • League of Nations
       • Formed to prevent war
         • Canada was an independent member
     • 1922 Chanak Crisis
       • Britain asked Canada to send troops
         • Canada Refused
     • 1926 King-Byng Crisis
       • Election over the power of the Governor General
         • Change the role of the Governor General
     • Group of Seven
       • 75% of Canadian homes had a radio
         • Many listen to American programs
     • 1931 statue of Westminster
       • Canada more free of British control
     • 1931 Hockey night in Canada
       • Radio Broadcasting
         • Canada's programming on the radio
     • 1936 CBC
       • Create Radio programs in French and English
       • Now had a media source alternative to the US
   • Britain
     • Balfour Report
       • Recognition by Britain that Canada was less subordinate to Britain

4. Prime Minister

   • William Lyon Mackenzie King
     • Question the role go the Governor General

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