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Chapter 3 Canada & the Twenties Flashcards

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Soldiers retourned to Canada after the war (1918) to find what?

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  • no steady pensions for vetrerans
  • no medical service for the wounded
  • few jobs
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what happened after the war? (genera;)

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cost of goods soared,

workers suffered, could barely make ends meet

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what did workers demand for?

and what did it result in?

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demand: higher wages, better conditions, the right to join unions
resulted in strikes

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labour wars

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  • over 4 yrs
  • union and steel corporation confronted each other
  • strikes turned violent, police (federal) were called in
  • mainly in the maritimes
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What happened at the Western Labour Conference in 1919

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union leaders formed One Big Union (OUB) to try and help workers establish more control of industry and gov through peacful means
- organized a general strike

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general strike

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a walkout by all employed workers

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Citizen’s comittee of one thousand

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a group that saw union leaders as a communist conspiracy to overthow the gov

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What came out of the strike? Reprocutions

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Immigration act amended to deport foreign union leaders

-strike leaders arrested

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what came out of the strike? and how long did it last?

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lasted 43 days
distrust and devisions between working class and businiesses grew deeper
- many workers fired, others hired on the conditon they coudn’t join a union
- gradually what they fought for was achieved

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regionalism

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the concern of the various regions of the country with their own local problems

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Name 2 regional challenges

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  • maritimes,people switched to oil (from coal), didnt have oil in their area (lots of coal), didnt have many in parliment to promote policies to benifit them
  • farmers on the praries and ontario, frustrated with National Policy - tariffs placed on goods imported to canada, not such tariffs for agriculture products
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What was created/happened because of the farmers regional challenge?

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they came together to from the United Farmers’ Party and they formed gov in some parts of the country

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1921 federal election new people and parties and results

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  • United Farmers’ Party
  • King (chosen to lead the Liberals)
  • Meighen (chosen to replace Borden as leader of the conservatives)

Liberals won a minority gov

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minority gov

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the governing party needs some of the opposition members to pass legislation

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about King

about Meighen

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KING: reformer, authority on social and economic issues, continued to push for Canada’s independance
MEIGHEN: debater, long-standing member of parliment

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KING VS MEIGHEN - relationship and differences

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relationship: despised each other personnally
differences: king was conciliatory, seeking middle path to offend least amount of people
meighen believed in principles over compromise, didnt care if people were offended by his stand on issues

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King - Byng Crisis

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  • liberals held a minority gov
  • liberals lost the support of the Progressive party
  • King asked Byng (GG) to call election
  • Byng refused but eventually did call and election
  • King won again
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Balfour Report

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  • Imperial Conference of 1926
  • Canada made a lot of progress towards changing out legal dependence on Britain
  • requested formal recognition of their autonomy
  • a respected british politician examined this request; findings published in balfour report
  • he supported our position
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autonomy

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freedom go govern themeselves

20
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How did Canada become a British Commonwealth

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  • the recommandations of the Balfour report became law in 1931 when statue of westminster was by british empire
  • statue official turned british empire into british commonwealth
21
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Benifits and restrictions of being part of the british commonwealth

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  • Canada (a country) had equal status to others ex. Britain
  • entitled to make their own laws
    2 restrictions:
  • Canada’s constitution (the BNA) had to remain in Britain (the Can. Fed Gov. and provincial Gov. coundn’t agree on a amending formula
  • judicial court of appeal for Canada resided in Britain until 1949
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amending formula

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the procedure for changing the act

23
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By the middle of the 20’s what were some of Canada’s major imports?

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wheat, pulp and paper (trees), lead, zinc, copper, silver,

24
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The USA invests in Canada’s economy

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  • US companies invested in pulp and paper mills and mines across Canada which were then exported to the US
  • Rather than lend $ to Canada they set up branch plants
  • by the end of the 20’s canadian auto industry hd been taken over by by 3 US companies (Ford, Chrysler, General Motors)
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branch plants

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businiesss owned and controlled by companies in the US but operated in Canada

26
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Bootlegging across the border

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Canada exported ILLEGAL ALCOHOL to US in large quantites

  • during WW I banned the manufacture and sales of alcoholic beverages in Canada
  • alcohol was still avaliable for those with $
  • 1921 provincial gov decided to regulate sales of alcohol instead of banning it
  • in the US it was still banned and so Canada supplied the US with illegal liquor
  • smuggling was a part of everyday life, but was very profitable although many got caught during this adventure
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plebiscites

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votes on a public issue

28
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who lived in the city

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the poor and working class

it was undesirable because that’s where the industry was located

29
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The role of woman

roles, single, married

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  • high hopes, reality didnt meet expectations
  • gov. (fed & prov) remained male dominated
  • women’s role was wives and mothers
  • married woman expected to take care of house
  • single women; limited opportunties ex nurse, teacher, secretary, sales clerks
30
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The Persons Case

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1929

  • Emily Murphy appointed as a magistrate in AB
  • appointment challenged bc only “persons” could hold this office under the BNA act
  • women not considerd “persons” under the law
  • Supreme Court of Alberta agreed wtih her, took it to King to clarify definition of “persons”
  • Supreme Court of Canada declared women not “persons” under the constitution
  • Murphy w/ the Famous Five appealed to the Judicial committee of the privy council in britain and won support
31
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New prosperity

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  • people had enough money to buy things like cars and radios
  • people were happy and dancing
  • american tourists came up ( increasing tourism)
  • tourists influenced syle - flapper style
32
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Increased mobility - cars

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  • invention of the assembly line ment cars could be mass produced quickly
  • most popular model: model T ford
  • better roads led to US because of rocky mountain barrior
  • BC changed from driving on left (brits) to the right (US)
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Increased mobility - flying/aviation

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  • many veteran pilots became bush pilots (who flew geoglists to remote areas)
  • daring mission to deliver medicne to a outbreak in Alberta, had lots of engine trouble - made it
  • helped RCMP in a epic manhunt for Albert Johnson
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improved communications

  • telephone
  • radio
  • movies
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  • 20’s telephone’s were standard amoung houses
  • telephone lines were shared by many neighbours, eavesdropping became entertainment
  • wisespread radio use broke down some isolation
  • radio also used for entertainment
  • small canadian stations couldn’t compete with giant US stations
  • at first movies were silent w. live music, then came the “talkies”
  • Canadian films counldn’t compete with US ones
  • Hollywood took over, many actors,writers left for LA
35
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Group of Seven

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a group of Canadian artists that sought new ways to interpret Canada’s landscape
- critizied in early years, gained wide acceptance by the end of the 20’s

36
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Emily Carr

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  • lived in Victoria, most famous painter on pacific coast
  • painted scenes of aborigional and west coast forests
  • moved and inspired by the Group of 7’s pieces
37
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Sports

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  • Baseball became important to canadians (radio)
  • pro boxing, rugby, curling, golf also important
  • hockey (duh)
  • we did very well at the olympics (hockey teams, ethel catherwood - high jump, charles gorman - speed skating records)
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aboriginals + discrimination

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  • saw little of the good life during 20’s
  • classified as not “persons” under the law
  • in BC counldn’t vote ill 1949, federally 1960
  • poor social and economic conditions
  • RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
  • banned potlathces; seen as obstacle to assimilati.
  • land claims/ aboriginal title
  • cut - off lands
39
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aboriginal title/ land claims

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in BC large amounts of land had been signed off to the gov

  • aboriginals had reserves
  • land was being CUT OFF without contsent from the aboriginal bands involved
40
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cut-off lands

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  • aboriginals wanted their claims to land recongnized by fed gov
  • fed gov changed the Indian Act so that aboriginal consent wasnt needed to transfer land
  • Department of Indian Affairs defended gov saying that money spent on aboriginal people had compensated them for land lost
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African - canadians: undisguised racism

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  • their entry to Canada had been discouraged
  • blatant discrimination
  • seperate schools for “blacks” and “europeans”
  • racial segregation: ex in theatres
    tolerance: Edmonton City Concil - refused to support african-canadians being banned from parks and pools
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immigrants

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  • immigrants from russia & eastern europe often accused of being socialist revolutionaries
  • immigrations restrictions put in place; gave prefe. to applicants from Britain
  • many didnt want immigrants because they would work longer hours, lower pay than Canadians
  • Severe restrictions of asian immigrants (virtually excluded them except for servants)
  • when economy improved, gov relaxed restrictions
  • many new immigrants living in city slums
43
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stock market crash

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tuesday october 29, 1929 the NYE collapsed

- caused a shift from prosperity to a depression

44
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What are the four dominions of the British Empire

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New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Canada

45
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How was the British commonwealth different from the British empire

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British empire was entire land mass of England

British commonwealth were the colonies apart of it

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