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Prohibition
in about 1918, lipuor make very bad effect to Canada. Women's groups had campagined for a ban of liquor, they though the money should not pay for liquor, it should pay for the food to people and soldiers, So, Canada federal government was introduced Prohibition in 1918 -
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1920s to 1930s
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blood saturday
people were during the Winnipeg General Strike. But theparades had been banned at that time and the police come to stop it. . this violence errupted resulting in the death of one man, the injury of 30, and the arrest of hundreds. -
Fred McCall
Barnstorming pilot Fred McCall at the Calgary Exhibition in 1919. He once crashlanded on the top of a merry-go-around, but no one was hurt. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
this act banned all Chinese except students, merchants, and diplomats from entering Canada. From 1923 until the act was repealed in 1947 only eight Chinese people were admitted to Canada. To Chinese Canadians, 1 july 1923 is known as "Humiliation Day". -
Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
in 1924, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was created. the government believed military planes could be justified only if they were used for peaceful purposes as well. -
Assembly Line
Henry Ford was the first to master the assembly line and was able to improve other aspects of industry by doing so (such as reducing labor hours required to produce a single vehicle, and increased production numbers and parts). And Ford was the first company to build large factories around the assembly line concept. the assembly line help the company product more and more quickly. -
Person’s Case and Famous Five
The women behind the Persons Case are known collectively as the Famous Five: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy and Irene Parlby. they asked the Supreme Court of Canada to declare that women were persons under the law; after the Supreme Court turned them down, they appealed to the British Privy Council. The Privy Council found for the women on October 18, 1929, declaring that women were persons under the law.it is a legal history milestone in Canada -
black thursday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (October 1929), also known as the Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signaled the beginning of the 12-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries and that did not end in the United States until the onset of American mobilization for World War II at the end of -
Five Cent Speech
during the beginning of the Great Depression, King made this speech about how social welfare was the responsibility of the provinces and declared that he would not give a "five-cent piece" to any province that did not have a Liberal government
it was one of the reasons why Liberals lost, and why the prime minister who replaced Mackenzie King was Richard Bedford Bennett. -
Prime Minister:R.B. Bennett
R.B. Bennett was Canada's prime minister during the Depression years. Bennett accused king of ignoring the plight of the unemployed and the problems caused by the stock market crash. -
Foster Hewitt & Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada is very important sport's progam for the CNR Rodia in 1931-1976.
For forty years, Foster Hewitt was Canada's premier hockey play-by-play broadcaster on Hockey Night in Canada, the first radio program widely listened to in Canada.Hewitt's Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts were simulcast on television until 1963 when he handed over the television broadcasts to his son, Bill Hewitt. -
Bennett's "New Deal"
In a series of five speeches to the nation in January 1935, Bennett introduced a Canadian version of the "New Deal," involving unprecedented public spending and federal intervention in the economy. Progressive income taxation, a minimum wage, a maximum number of working hours per week, unemployment insurance, health insurance, an expanded pension programme, and grants to farmers were all included in the plan. it help Canadian people have a better life. -
On to Ottawa Trek
In June 1935, thousands of men fed up with life in British Columbia relief camps boarded freight trains bound for Ottawa to protest to the goverment. that's because the trekkers wanted clear economic reforms such as minimum wages and a genuine system of social and unemployment insurance. -
CBC- Canadian Broadcasting Company
In 1936, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CBBC) became the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It protecting and develop the Canadian Culture better and better in the future. -
SS. St. Louis
The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner most notable for a single voyage in 1939, in which her captain, Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for 937 German Jewish refugees after they were denied entry to Cuba. St. Louis sailed from Hamburg to Cuba on May 13, 1939, carrying seven non-Jewish and 930 Jewish refugees (mainly German) seeking asylum from Nazi persecution. some person hope to Canada goverment can help them,but the Canadian immigration officials and cabinet ministers hostile to Jewish
