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Ukraine Canadian internment
The Ukrainian Canadian internment was part of the confinement of "enemy aliens" in Canada during and for two years after the end of the First World War, lasting from 1914 to 1920, under the terms of the War Measures Act. -
Indigenous people during World War I
During the First World War, about 4000 Aboriginal people voluntarily enlisted in the Canadian military. But after returning from service, the veterans experienced unequal treatment just like they experienced before the war. They were not awarded the same benefits as their non-Aboriginal counterparts. -
Women’s right to vote
In the spring of 1918, the government granted the right to vote to many Canadian women who were 21 years of age and older. And They were also given the right to run for political office. That meant they were allowed to vote in the national election that took place in 1921. -
black Canadians during World War II
The story of Allan Bundy based on a background --- at the time was that the entire RCAF, as well as the Royal Canadian Navy, was quietly barring Black and Asian Canadians from all but the most general positions. The policy wasn't publicized, but most jobs could only go to British subjects who were white or of "pure European descent." -
Japanese internment camps
Beginning in early 1942, the Canadian government detained and dispossessed more than 90 percent of Japanese Canadians, some 21,000 people, living in British Columbia. They were detained under the War Measures Act and were interned for the rest of the Second World War.
