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Branch Plants
Branch Plants were opertaions set up in canada which were owned by American companies. These were investments by American companies since they could sell to Canadian consumers while avoiding high transportaion costs and import tariffs. For example Ford was one the first to establish one of these Branch Operations.This effected Canadian culture because this influenced many wokers lives since they were no longer working for Canada but rather for America and so they were greatly influcend by them. -
Group of Seven
The Group of Seven consists of artists: Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley. The organization was founded in 1920 but met during 1911-1913. Tom Thomson was initally was supposed to be a part of the group but died in 1917. They were famous for there landscape paitings of Canada's untouched nature. This is a huge contribution to Canadian culture because their paintings were able to capture the true beauty of Canada -
Flappers
Flappers were a new breed of women who broke gender sterotypes and basically did what they wanted.They smoked, drank, danced, cut their hair and dressed provocatively. They effected the culture of Canada because they broke gender barriers and gave women the right to be able to do what men could. -
Mary Pickford
Mary pickford was a young actess from Toronto, Ontario who played in short silent films. before long she was a huge star even surppassing Charlie Chaplin in popularity. But her greatest skill was her businnes approach to the flim industry. She formed United Artists a major motion picture company. She is the first woman to earn more then $1 million throgh acting and co running a major film studio. This inspired many young women to become actresses and shape the flim culture. -
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Prohibition
Prohibition were laws against making and selliing intoxicating liquor. This was measure was taken because alcohol was blamed for many scoial problems such as crime, public drunkenness and domestical issues. This effected canadian culture especially returning soliders since it created many jobs and lives of returning soliders were in pubs or depended on alcohol.. -
Jazz Age
Jazz age is a term to describe 1920 music culture of United States. Jazz is a mix of European and West African musical traditions. This muisc travelled into Canada and was extremely popular and with the help of the radio. Culture also includes music and for the 1920s Jazz was a way to represent Canada's culture. -
Urbanization
Urbanization is a process that expanded citities and replaced rural areas such as farm land into cities. During the1920s when the economy improved there was a huge demand in manufacturing. Factories were built in cities since emplyers needed a large, skilled labour force and so many people without jobs crowded into cities. Which casued the need for urbanzation and expansion of cities. This effected canadian culture because people had to change lfestyles drasticatically to suit to busy city life. -
Froster Hewitt and the Hockey Night in Canada
Froster Hewitt was the first person to broadcast a hockey game for the radio station Canada Covers America First which was owned by by Toronto Star. He broadcasted in a cramped glass box above the ice and said his famous phrase " He Shoots, He Scores!" which lives on to this day. This is a big part of our culture because hockey is our national sport and held unprecendented popularity with radio listeners. Which paved the way for future broadcasts and to this day this priogram goes on. -
Changing of Trade Partners
Untill 1920s, Britain was Canada's main trading partner but in 1925 United States had become Canadas cheif trading partner. This happened because as the American economy grew the trading between Canada was growing as well, while trade between britain was declining. This benefited Canada greatly because America needed Canada's natural resources to manufacture products. This effected Canadian culture because Americas large imports influenced us into an American lifestyle/culture. -
Canadian Literature
During the 1920s, Canadian writers were developing a new sense sensiblity , different from those in the early years of the 20th century. They wrote more stories of harsh realities influenced by social disruptions occuring after WW1. A famous author. Morley Callaghan, wrote "innovative, tightly crafted and intense short stories." These stories that he created captured the feelings of many canadians which contributed to making of our literay culture in those hard times. -
Black Tuesday
During the roaring 20s the stock market was doing well so people decided to invest in it bu on October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed. This casued the Great Depression that lasted 10 years. This event affected many people in Canada because many people were in debt after the banks asked for there loans to be payed. Which caused Canadian families to go throught hard tiems and so Canadian culture plummets. -
Residental schools
Residental schools was a tool of assilmation of the Aboiginal culture brought on by the government. These schools were supossed to "civilize the native students so they can fit into Canadian society.These schools wanted to destroy native culture in the children by taking everything cultural away from by prohibitng Aborginal spirituality, their first language,, etc. By 1931 80 residential schools were operating across Canada and over 150,00 Aboriginal students attedended. -
Statute of Westminister
The Statue of Westminister was an act of the British Parliment offically recognizing the equality of Britain and the domininons. Which resulted in briatin not being able ot make laws for former colonies other wise known of Canada's "Declaration of Independance". This affected our culture because Canadians are now not being forced to follow British influence and follow our own culture as we see it today. -
Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC)
The government created the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, which later became CBC- Candian Broadcasting Commision in 1936. This company was formed to battle American authority of the airwaves and help the creation of Canadian programs. This effects our culture because the American programs provide a huge influence over Canadian population since radios were a big thing back then. -
World War II
World War II was a huge war for 1939 - 1945 against the Allies and the Axies. This effected the culture of Canada because many men and women enlisted which was never done. Also the overall culture of the country was in support of the wartime effort.
