prime minster timeline

Question 1

who is wilfrid laurier (1st, pre WW1)

-> party?/term
-> what did he do?

Answer 1

servered from 1896-1911
-> liberal

-> first french canadian prime minister (and campaigned/acted like Canada was america)

-> removed the right for the Indigenous to vote under the Indian Act.

Question 2

What is the indian act?

Answer 2

Indian act meant that the indigenous could only gain the right to vote if they have up their indian status

Question 3

Who is robert Borden? (2nd during WW1)

-> term? party?
-> significance to the war?

Answer 3

-> 1911-1920
-> Conservative

-> Created the conscription crisis (1917)
-> Created the Military voters act, War time elections act, and War time measure act

-> introduced income tax
-> signed the treaty of versailles and joined the league of nations

Question 4

Who is WLM King (3rd, on and off, during interwar and ww2)

Answer 4

1921-1948 (essientially)
-> liberal

->Allowed/created Japanese intermant camps
-> introduced 2nd conscription crisis
->Worked during the roaring twenties

Question 5

R.B Bennette (4th/3rd, served during the great depression)

-term, and significance
-party?

Answer 5

19302-1935, was a conservative

-> tainted by the Great Deepression
-unable to manage the crisis
-> attempted the “laissez-faire policies, which did not work.
(economic system w no gov)

Question 6

Who is Louis St. Laurrien? (Post war)

Answer 6

-1948-1957
-Liberal

->newfoundlan joined Canada on March 31st, 1949

-> Canada joins NATO
-> Trans Canada Highway Act (1949)

Question 7

Who is John Diefenbaker? (post war #6)

->term/party
->Significance?

Answer 7

1957-1963
-Conservative

-Handeled the Cuban Missile Crisis
-> Approved NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command)
-> Established the bille of rights
->Allowed the Indigenous to vote

Question 8

Leaster B pearson (7th, Post War)

Answer 8

1963-1968 (Liberal)

-> Won novel peace prize for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force (resolved the Suez Canal Crisis)

->Launched universal health care
-> launched the studen loan program
-> Launched Canadian pension plan
-> did not send troops to Vietnam

Question 9

WHo is Pierre Trudea? (post war #8)

-term + significance

Answer 9

1968-1979, liberal

->decriminalized homosexuality
->legalized abortion