Between the Wars

Question 1

The Persons Case

Answer 1

Legally, women were not considered persons, so the Alberta 5 (Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, and Henrietta Muir), went to court to change this. This made women persons, legally.

• Emily Murphy became a senator

Question 2

Relief Camps and unemployment

Answer 2

Relief camps housed young unemployed men. Pay was low, conditions were bad, led to the On-To-Ottawa-Trek and the Regina Riot

Question 3

RB Bennet

Answer 3

Canadian PM after WLMK who was a laissez-faire leader and did nothing to stop the depression

Question 4

WLMK

Answer 4

Canada’s longest-serving PM, liberal

Question 5

Causes of the Great Depression

Answer 5

• Over-production and over-expansion
• Canada’s dependence on few primary products
• Canada’s dependence on the USA
• High tariffs choke off international trade
• Too much credit buying
• Too much credit buying of stocks

Question 6

Winnipeg General Strike

Answer 6

Workers wanted better working hours, better pay, better job security, and improved housing. 30k protesters went out to strike. Government was scared of Communist underpinnings, militia was sent in to break up the strike. 2 people died known as ‘Bloody Saturday’.

Question 7

On-to-Ottawa Trek

Answer 7

Thousands of men working in relief camps were fed up with their low pay, and bad working conditions decided to go to Ottawa to speak with RB Bennet. They were stopped in Regina where a riot broke out

Question 8

New Canadian Political parties and their policies

Answer 8

CCF (JS Woodsworth)
The Communist Party (Tim Buck)
The Social Credit Party (William Aberhart / Bible Bill)
Unione Nationale (Duplessis)

Question 9

CCF

Answer 9

CCF → Wanted Democratic Socialism (JS Woodsworth)

Question 10

The Communist Party of Canada

Answer 10

The Communist Party of Canada → The smallest and most radical party, wanted to overthrow the Government (Tim Buck)

Question 11

The Social Credit Party

Answer 11

The Social Credit Party → Wanted to distribute more money (William Aberhart / Bible Bill)

Question 12

Unione Nationale

Answer 12

Unione Nationale → Wanted to defend French culture and fight Communism (Duplessis)

Question 13

Immigration/Racism between wars

Answer 13

Immigration favoured white, Western and Northen-Europeans rather than Asian/African ones

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 14

Residential schools

Answer 14

Canadian schools set up to assimilate and separate native children from their culture

Question 15

Padlock Act

Answer 15

Anti-Communist law. Duplessis wanted to be able to shut down any business with possible Communist underpinning

Question 16

Alberta 5

Answer 16

• Emily Murphy
• Irene Parlby
• Nellie McClung
• Louise McKinney
• Henrietta Muir Edwards