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Women get the right to vote in Ontario(+2) %%%
Of course, this was a big step in Canada. After women joined the workforce, they demanded their right to vote and they got it. Women getting more rights is always progress as it should continue until genders are equal. Women getting the right to vote also meant they were being respected more, and not just thought of as domestic workers now. -
Income War Tax Act (-1) $$$
The income war tax the government's way of making money off its citizens to provide resources for Canadians serving overseas. A tax on tobacco and alcohol was one of the many taxes that would make Canadians pay extra for items they used everyday. Canadians who owned businesses had to have $50,000 or more in capital, to file a yearly tax return. It wasn’t the worst thing that happened to Canadians, but it was making them pay more when they already were low on money as their husbands were at war. -
Jeremiah Jones and the battle of Vimy Ridge(0) ###
This was still progress for black people in Canada, because they were starting to be noticed as not only people, but as incredible individuals in this war, like Jeremiah Jones. The only problem was, most soldiers didn’t want the black men in their battalion, so they didn’t speak or go neither them a lot. So, while this was progress, it wasn’t the most progress possible at that time. -
P.M. Borden Announces Conscription(-2)%%%
This was a bad choice that Borden made. A lot of people oppose it, especially French Canadians. They felt they had no loyalty to either Britain or France, so why would they have to go help either of them while leaving their homes and risking their lives. Conscription didn’t even work. Less than 1% of people forced into conscription went overseas. All conscription did was separate French people in Canada and the rest of the Canadians. This was a prominent decline in Canadian history. -
Spanish Influenza(-2)$$/##
The Spanish Influenza was nothing good at all. After the war was over, surviving soldiers were coming back to Canada, they were met by the flu. This flu had ended up killing about 50,000 Canadians, leaving a lot of children orphaned, and many families without a money maker. The amount of deaths was almost the same amount of those who died in service for Canada, showing how bad the disease really was. -
The start of the Winnipeg General Strike(-1)##/$$
Western labour leaders formed the One Big Union in 1919. In May, over 30,000 workers left their job as a result of bad working conditions. Protests in June created havoc as the Royal Northwest Mounted Police stopped a protest that became violent. Over 100 people were injured and 2 people died. 17 strike leaders were arrested and on June 25th, workers went back to their jobs. Some were fired, but nothing happened to the rest. No raises, same working conditions. In essence, this wasn’t worth it. -
Deputy Superintendent General of Indian affairs negotiated residential schools agreement (-2)###
In 1920, every Metis, Inuit, or First Nations child from the age of seven to sixteen could be forcibly removed from their home to go to a residential school. They forgot their language, they were told their parents were bad, and some of them died from the way they were being treated in the residential school. A lot of the survivors went home not knowing how to behave properly, as they were not taught anything at the so-called school. This is not something Canada can be proud of. -
Banting and Colleague Discover Insulin(+2) ###
This was one of Canada’s greatest accomplishments in the 1920's. When Fredrick Banting was working in his medical practice, he and Charles Best removed a part of the pancreas from a dog to save a diabetic dog's life. This discovery meant diabetes patients could gain healthiness again and the mortality rate would decrease. What made this heroic was Banting selling insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1 (About $14 today). This is a notable example of progress in Canada. -
The Summer Olympics (+1) ###
The 1928 summer Olympics was the time to shine for many female athletes. This was the first Olympics women could compete in. Many women won medals in the races. Fanny Rosenfeld was a big inspiration to many, as she was a great Canadian runner. This was progress for women, but they were later told by doctors that this would harm their ability to have children, so many sporting events involving women soon stopped for a while. -
The Persons Case(+2)%%%
The Persons Case were good times for Canadian women. Some Canadian women could finally vote, but none were officially considered persons until 1929, and they couldn’t be in Senate until then. The famous five changed that. They were the ones who challenged this, and they are the ones who helped change the minds of the government after three months of officially saying women weren’t
