Interwar Years (1920-1930)

Question 1

Spanish Flu

Answer 1

cause: close living conditions, spread overseas due to soldiers returning home
symptoms:
-struck almost immediately
-fatigue
-raging fever
-throat and mouth turned flaming red
-lungs filled with strangling pus
Canadians' reaction: 50-100 million deaths worldwide, targeted healthy youths

Question 2

Winnipeg General Strike

Answer 2

• May 1, 1919, over 30000 workers on strike
• wanted $.85/hour and reduced workweek of 44 hours instead of 60 hours
• RCMP tried to break up rally resulting in a riot (2 people died in riot (bloody Sat.))
• although unsuccessful this protest began new movement of workers fighting for rights in Canada

Question 3

Technologies/Advancement

Answer 3

• snowmobile (RCMP used to travel in snowy areas)
• radio (able to spread info faster and to broader audience)
• telephone (brought CAN closer together)
• insulin (controlled Diabetes, allowing long life for diabetics)

Question 4

aboriginals

Answer 4

• not entitled to non-aboriginal war benefits
• most of their land sold by gov. to Soldier Settlement Board for soldiers wanting to become farmers
• still considered wards of state
• little legal, social, eco changes, often couldn’t find paid employment, lived in poverty

Question 5

Canada’s Growing independence

Answer 5

• Chanak Crisis
• –chanak was Turkish port controled by Uk
• –Britain was threatened, telegrammed WLMK asking for support of Empire in 1922
• –WLMK took it to Parliament and had it debated in HoC, but by end of debate crisis was over
  - Halibut Treaty (1923)
• –CAN negotiated a treaty with USA to protect halibut in BC
• –WLMK insisted CAN be allowed to sign treaty without British Rep.
• –WLMK threatened to set up an independent CAN rep. at Washington, Britain back off
  - King-Byng Thing (1923)
• –WLMK publically challenged Britain over role of governor general and Britain’s influence on CAN politics
• –WLMK asked Byng to dissolve parliament and hold new election, Byng refused
• –WLMK won eventual election, no Gov. Gen. refused advice of PM again
  - Imperial conference and Balfour Report (1926)
• –dominions of British Empire requested formal recognition of their autonomy
• –Special committee was formed under Lord Balfour
  - Statute of Westminster
• –passed by British gov. formally turned British Empire into the British Commonwealth
• –CAN could now make its own laws

Question 6

Person’s Case

Answer 6

WHAT: a constitutional ruling that established the right of women being “people” therefore allowed to be appointed to the Senate.
WHO: Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney and Irene Parlby.
SIGNIFICANCE:established that women were eligible to be members of the Canadian Senate,and therefore that they had the same rights as men as regards to being eligible for positions of political power

Question 7

Prohibition

Answer 7

-the movement to ban the production, importation, and transportation of liquor.
-WANT IT: Women’s Christian Temperance Union, Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic, Presbyterians
PROS: instant decrease in crime, Workers brought pay checks to their families instead of to the bar, Workers worked more efficiently because they weren’t drunk on the job
CONS: A new type of crime was created called “Boot Legging”, gov. lost millions of dollars that could have been made on alcohol taxes
REACTION: boot legging (distribute alcohol illegal), Blind Pigs (charge entrance to see “pig” for poor), speakeasies (illegal drinking spots)

Question 8

Stock Market Crash

Answer 8

Tuesday Oct. 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday) NYStock Exchange crashed
—stock prices fell drastically, traders told to SELL SELL SELL, 16+ million stocks changes hands, prices cont. fell

Question 9

The Great Depression

Answer 9

CAUSES:
—tariffs and US protection
—overproduction
—economic dependence on exports
—debt from WW1
—reckless speculation and stock market crash
LIFE IN CAN:
—27% unemployment rate, dependent on gov. for survival
—many people lost everything (house, car, money)
—Young Street Mission–> feed and clothes thousands
—pogey–> gov. relief payments
—-300,000 left CAN go to LA, Bennett created camps to house and provide work for single CAN men
PM RESPONSE:
—Unemployment Relief Act (1931)- gave prov. $20mill for work creation programs
—Tariffs–> “ to blast away” into world markets and out of depression
—Prairie Farm Rehab Act (1935)—>help farmers build irrigation systems and reservoirs