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Branch Plants
Branch Plant is a system introduced by Americans, it involves American manufacturing and commercial firms that were located in Canada to avoid the import tariffs that was part of Nation’s Policy. Profits made by Canadian branch plants were usually attained by the U.S. Some Canadians felt that American capital from this system would develop Canadian industries, and transform Canada into a greater economic power. Yet others feared the economic takeover of Canada by the U.S. -
Spanish Flu
caused the highest number of known influenza deaths. More than 500,000 people died in the United States, and up to 50 million people may have died worldwide. Many people died within the first few days after infection with the Spanish flu, and others died of related complications. Nearly half of those who died were young, healthy adults.An unusually severe and deadly influenza pandemic that spread across the world. -
League of Indians
the Indians were playing the Yankees at the Polo Grounds in New York.In September 1920, the Black Sox Scandal came to a boil.The team would not reach the heights of 1920 again for 28 years. Speaker and Coveleski were aging and the Yankees were rising with a new weapon: Babe Ruth and the home run. They managed two second-place finishes but spent much of the decade in the cellar. In 1927 Dunn's widow, Mrs. George Pross (Dunn had died in 1922), sold the team to a syndicate headed by Alva Bradley. -
Group of Seven
The Group of Seven were a group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley. Tom Thomson and Emily Carr were also closely associated with the Group of Seven, though neither were ever official members. The Group of Seven is most famous for its paintings of the Canadian landscape. It was succeeded by the Canadian Group of Painters in the 1930s. -
Prime Minister:Mackenzie King
The dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s to the 1940s. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926, September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930, and October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948.A Liberal with 21 years in office, he was the longest-serving Prime Minister in British Commonwealth history. In the 1921 election, his party defeated Arthur Meighen and the Conservatives, and he became Prime Minister. -
Foster Hewitt & Hockey Night in Canada
Foster Hewitt was assigned to announce Canada's first radio broadcast for a hockey game. He was the one who created the famous phrase "he shoots, he scores." Foster Hewitt announced for hockey games through the Great Depression and World War 2. Foster Hewitt took Canada's national sport to a whole different of entertainment, without Foster Hewitt, hockey wouldn't be what it is today. -
Assembly Line
The Assembly line was an idea Henry Ford had, He dreamt that everyone had a car and the way to produce this was by mass production so Ford set up an assembly line. In the beginning it was difficult because workers would walk across the assembly line fixing the parts together but as time went by it became easier because there was a conveyor belt. The Assembly line lead to a lot of cars being produced in Canada which helped the economy. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
It went into effect on July 1, 1923. The act banned Chinese immigrants from entering Canada except those under the following titles:Merchant,Diplomat,Foreign student,Under Article 9 of the act, "Special circumstance" granted by the Minister of Immigration. The act did not apply only to Chinese from China: ethnic Chinese with British nationality were banned from entering Canada as well. -
Person's case
The British Privy Council reverses the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the "Persons Case" and Canadian women become "Persons" with all rights accorded to the definition of persons including the right to sit in the Senate of Canada. -
Black Tuesday
On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed. On this day, referred to as Black Tuesday, everyone who had put major investments in to the stock market tried to pull their money out all at the same time. Since everyone was withdrawling, the stock prices all decreased dramatically and stayed low or at least a month. -
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett
Prime Minister Bennett was the General of National Services, he created The Relief Act in 1932, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission and he was a Leader of Opposition. He was also a part of the Conservative Party. Bennett was too closely associated with the Depression. Since the unemployment rate was so high, the Relief Act provided unemployed single men with a subsistence living. -
Five Cent Speech
During the beginning of the Great Depression , Mackenzie King made a speech that the problem of Social Welfare was the responsibility of the provinces. He also said that he will not give a "five cent piece" to anybody who lost their jobs in a province without a Liberal Government hence the name of the speech. This speech was one of the reasons why the Liberals lost the elections to the Conservatives.Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett replaced Mackenzie King. -
Statute of Westminster
The Statute of Westminster was a act that Britain made to grant the colonies that they had to power themselves and become an independent nation. Since Canada wanted to become an independent nation and not a colony of Britain, Britain granted that wish and now Canada is an independent country. -
CBC- Canadian Broadcasting Company
In 1929, there was huge concern that the growing influence of American radio broadcasting as U.S.-based networks began to expand into Canada. The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Company was also created in 1932 as a predecessor of the CBC. The network was used to broadcast programming to riders aboard its passenger trains, with coverage primarily in central and eastern Canada. -
SS. St. Louis
SS. St. Louis was a German ocean liner that traveled to Cuba. That German ocean liner carried 930 Jewish people that was hoping to make Cuba their new home due to Hitlers conquer. But there access was denied and the captain of this liner tried to find homes for the 930 refugees through out Europe. But not in Germany of course.
