1920's Canada

1920's Canada

1. Social History

   • School
     • Classes
   • Minorities and Imigration
     • No Chinese
     • Few non-western Europeans
   • Women
     • "Famous Five"
       • Women are persons
         • Across the entire Commonwealth
     • Gained the right to vote 24th of May, 1918
   • Aboriginal Canadians
     • Land
       • Major loss of land 1860's-1920's
       • Lost control of land
     • Culture
       • Bans
         • Banning the Potlatch
         • Banning the traditional Council of the six nations
     • Assimilation
     • Residential Scools
       • 24% died
       • Children
         • Abused
         • Taken from their families
         • They become Parents and it affects their children

2. Economy

   • Growth
     • 1929
   • Jobs
     • Strikes
       • Riots
         • People sent to jail
           • Fear of Communism
       • Winnipeg
   • Prohibition

3. Autonomy

   • Independent member in the League of Nations
   • Idependance
     • Paris Peace Conference
     • Art
     • CBC
     • King-Byng
       • Gov. Gen. Byng uses his power
         • Act passed to revoke some of the Gov. Gen.'s poweers
   • U.S.A.
     • Radio
     • Branch Plants
     • Investment
   • Britain
   • Halibut Treaty
     • Fishing Treaty with the U.S.A.
     • First Treaty signed independently from Britain
   • Chanak Crisis
     • Canada refuses to send troops to turkey at Britain's request

4. Prime Minister

   • William Lyon Mackenzie King