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Group Of Seven Exhibition
Group Of Seven was a group of artists who were inspired by Canada's land scape. Their paintings were a new type of art and were usually pictures of rivers, mountains, trees etc. They created create a fund for artists to paint, developed a strategy for marketing,travel to aboriginal places to inspire young artists and established a trust fund, for scholarship programs. -
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1920-1930
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William Lyon Mackenzie King as Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King was voted Prime Minister. He was part of the liberal party. He was born on December 17, 1874 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario . And died on July 22, 1950 in Kingsmere, Quebec. He was prime minister for these years
1921-26, 1926-30, 1935-48 His main achievements/goals were...
Social programs like unemployment insurance, old age pension, welfare and family allowance
Trades with united states
Canadians citizenship act
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Insulin
Insulin was discovered by Frederick Banting
Insulin is an injection that helps people with diabetes. Diabetes was one of the main causes of death and this insulin saved a lot of lives. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion act was inplace to prevent any more asian immigrants. At first they created a head tax, that only asians had to pay to get into Canada. They realized it wasn't working so they increased the price and eventually ban chinese immigrants. This was a racist, biased and unfair law. This excludes asians for no particular reason. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday is when the stock market crashed. This was a bad day for everyone who bought stock. They watched their money plummet and many people went in debt. -
Five Cent Speech
The "Five Cent Speech" was said by William Lyon Mackenzie King ignore the great deperession. The main idea of this speech was that he would not give any money to those who lost their jobs unless they had a liberal government. Because of this speech William Lyon Mackenzie King was out of the election Conservative Prime Minister R.B. Bennett was voted instead.
