Roaring 20's Famous Figures Flashcards
Edmonton Grads
Canadian girls basket ball team in Edmonton
Coach was Percy page
The North American record for sports team with the best winning percentage of all time
Bobbie Rosenfeld
Lived in Barrie
Canadian athlete
Summer Olympics he won gold medal for 400 m rely
Lionel Conacher
Born in Toronto
Canada’s top male athlete
Nickname big train
Howie Morenz
Canadian professional hockey player Attempted to join the army Played 3 national hockey league teams -Montreal - Chicago - New York rangers
The blue nose
Canadian fishing and racing schooner
From and built in Nova Scotia in 1921
On the dime since 1937
Foster Hewitt
Only 20 years old when assigned to announce the first radio broadcast of a hockey game
Canadian radio broadcaster
Champion boxer in his younger years
Percy Williams
Canadian athlete was in summer Olympics
When 15 he suffered from rheumatic fever , was told to avoide exercise
Always a underdog to have any athletic career
Stephen Leacock
Famous canadian writer
Born in orillia
Canadian publisher
Fredrick Banting
Developed insulin
Received Nobel prize for his discovery
His formula was sold for a dollar to allow people to be helped
Nellie McClung
Wanted wanted women to have equal rights with men
Involved in politics in 1921
First Canadian women to become mpp
Emily Murphy
Advocate for women’s rights
Became first Canadian female judge
Was involved in the persons case
Agnes McPhail
First women to be elected to Canadian House of Commons
First women member of parliament
John Hamilton
was a Canadian criminal
Bank a Robbery active
Known as three finger jack
Mary Pickford
Motion picture actress
Known as Amaricas sweet heart
Actress, producer and screenwriter
Group of seven
Canadian artists
Emily Carr was a member
