CSC Final Flashcards
Parts of the Former Holy Roman Empire united under nationalism
Between 1871 and 1918
The Great War / The First World War
July 28, 1914 - Nov.11, 1918
Canada declared war on Germany (WW1)
August 4 1914 at 8:45pm
ON gov’t enacts regulation 17
1912
Canada signs the Halibut Treaty with the US
1923
Belfour Declaration
1926
Statute of Westminster
1931
Winnipeg General Strike
1919
Exports to the US exceed exports to Britain for the first time
1923
“Black Tuesday”
Oct. 29, 1929
national unemployment rate hits 20% (50% in some places)
1933
1.5 million rely on relief
1932
New Deal / Unemployment Insurance
1934
Bank of Canada is established
1935
Bennett loses to Mackenzie-King
1935
Padlock Law
1937
Union Nationale ceases to exist
1970
Commission to review Public Broadcasting
1928
CBC is created
1936
War is declared on Germany by England
Sept. 9th 1939
Nazi party comes to power in Germany
1933
Germans capture most of France
June 1940
US joins the war after Pearl Harbour
1941
US and Canada begin sharing military intelligence and information
1938
Odensburg Agreement
1940
Hyde Park Agreement
1941
NEWF joins Confederation
April 1, 1949
Labrador joins Newfoundland
2001
Medical Care Act
1966
Old Age Security Act
1951
Universal Healthcare is implemented
1984
Trans Canada Highway Act
1919 passed, 1950 constructions starts, 1962 construction is complete
Metric System
1970
The Social Credit is founded
1935
U of Quebec is built
1969-1970
Students protest the Vietnam war
1968
Woodstock
1969
Canada signs the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1948
Fed. Gov’t revises the Indian Act of 1876
1951
Non-Enfranchised Indians (those who kept “Indian Status”) were now allowed to vote
1960
proposition to repeal the Indian Act
1969
Pine Ridge Reservation Standoff
1973
Royal Commission on the Status of women
1967-1970
Oka Crisis
1990 Quebec
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
1991-1996
Asbestos Strike
1949 (4 months)
Maurice Richard plays for Mtl
1942-1960
Jean Lesage’s Liberals in power
1961-1966
Creation of the Office de la langue française
1961
Provincial elections in the theme “maitres chez nous”
1962
Royal Commission of Inquiry into Bilingualism and Biculturalism
1963
creation of Ministry of Education in Quebec
1964
creation of Caisse de Depot et de Placement
1965
creation of Cégep
1967
Bill 90 is issued renaming the Legislative Assembly of Quebec to Assemblée Nationale
1968
FLQ bombings
1963-1972
October Crisis
October 1970
René Levesque comes to power
1976
Bill 101 makes French the dominant language in Quebec
1977
First Quebec Referendum
1980
Second Quebec Referendum
1995
Canadian Flag implemented
1964
Jean Drapeau is mayor of Mtl
1954 (is mayor for roughly 30 years)
Major Leage Baseball comes to Mtl
1969
Youppi becomes mascot for the Habs
2004
Mtl’s subway opens
1966
Toronto’s subway opens
1954
Expo
April 28 - October 27 1967
Mtl Olympics
1976
Immigration Explodes
70s and 80s (thanks to Expo and Olympics)
shift in immigration towards eastern and southern europeans
50s - 70s
Vancouver sees many Chinese immigrants
80s and 90s
Official Languages Act
1969
Federal Gov’t officially adopts Multiculturalism Policy
1971
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
1982
Canadian Multiculturalism Act
1988
Pierre Trudeau is PM
68-84
Neo-Liberalism
70s
Maple Spring
2012 Quebec
Suez Crisis
1956
Canada joins G8
1976