TEST - Inter-War Period People Flashcards
“Bobbie” Rosenfield
Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld was a Canadian athlete, who won a gold medal for the 100-metre relay and a silver medal for the 100-metre at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. She was named “Canadian woman athlete of the half-century” in 1949, and a star at basketball, hockey, softball, and tennis.
Adrian Arcand
Adrian Arcand was a Canadian journalist who led a series of fascist political movements between 1929 and his death in 1967. During his political career, he proclaimed himself the Canadian Führer. He was detained by the federal government for the duration of the Second World War under the Defense of Canada Regulations.
Agnes Macphail
Agnes Macphail was a woman’s suffragist and politician. Agnes Macphail was the first woman elected to the House of Commons (1921–40) and was one of the first two women elected to the Ontario legislature (1943–45, 1948–51). She was also the first female member of a Canadian delegation to the League of Nations. Macphail was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (the forerunner of the New Democratic Party). She was a noted pacifist and an advocate for prison reform. As a member of the Ontario legislature, she championed Ontario’s first equal pay legislation (1951).
Al Capone
Al Capone was one of the most famous American gangsters who rose to infamy as the leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era. Before being sent to Alcatraz Prison in 1934 for a tax evasion conviction, he had amassed a personal fortune estimated at $100 million as the head of the infamous crime syndicate. He was sometimes known by the nickname “Scarface”. He made donations to various charities and was viewed by many as a “modern-day Robin Hood”. However, the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, in which seven gang rivals were murdered in broad daylight, damaged the public image of Chicago and Capone, leading influential citizens to demand government action and newspapers to dub Capone “Public Enemy No.1”.
Arthur Meighen
Arthur Meighen was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Canada, in office from July 1920 to December 1921 and from June to September 1926. He led the Conservative Party from 1920 to 1926 and from 1941 to 1942. Meighen’s brief second term as Prime Minister came about as the result of the “King–Byng Affair,” being invited to form a ministry after Mackenzie King was refused an election request and resigned. He soon lost a no-confidence motion, however, and faced another federal election. Meighen lost his own seat, and the Conservatives lost 24, as Mackenzie King’s Liberals re-took power.
Banting and Best
Banting and Best were the two men who discovered insulin in 1922. Banting won a Nobel Prize, but attempted to turn it down because his partner was not getting credit and he found that unfair.
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin was a British comedian, producer, writer, director, and composer who is widely regarded as the greatest comic artist of the screen and one of the most important figures in motion-picture history. He helped create the United Artists Studio with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. He had greatly upsetted the Germans because of his movie The Great Dictator, which was largely based on Hitler. The Nazi’s wanted Chaplin to be punished for his mockery of their “leader”.
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He helped create the United Artists Studio with Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin. He was married to Mary Pickford, but then got divorced from her after 16 years of marriage. Though he was considered one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the 1910s and 1920s, Fairbanks’s career rapidly declined with the advent of the “talkies”.
Emily Carr
Emily Carr was a painter and writer, regarded as a major Canadian artist for her paintings of western coast indigenous peoples and landscape. While teaching art in Vancouver, B.C, Carr made frequent sketching trips to indigenous peoples in British Columbia.
Emily Murphy
Emily Murphy was a writer, journalist, magistrate, political and legal reformer. Emily Murphy was the first woman magistrate in the British Empire. She was also one of the Famous Five behind the Persons Case, the successful campaign to have women declared persons in the eyes of British law. A self-described rebel, she was an outspoken feminist and suffragist
Frederick O. Loft
Frederick O. Loft was a Mohawk nation activist who founded the League of Indians of Canada. He has been counted among “the great Indian activists of the first half of the twentieth century.” He was also a World War I veteran and was active in encouraging recruitment.
Group of Seven
The Group of Seven were impressionist painters. They sketched landscapes and developed different techniques to better their art. The group was greatly influenced by European Impressionism. It was in 1919 that they began to call themselves the Group of Seven – they couldn’t come up with a name, and so Harris dubbed them the “Group of Seven” and it stuck.
Henrietta Edwards
Henrietta Edwards was a Canadian women’s rights activist and reformer. She was a part of “The Famous Five” who were a group of women who fought to have women recognized as “persons” under the law, and for the woman’s right to vote in elections.
Irene Parlby
Irene Parlby was a Canadian women’s farm leader, activist and politician. Parlby helped to found the first women’s local of the United Farmers of Alberta. In 1921, she was elected to the Alberta Legislature for the riding of Lacombe, holding the riding for 14 years. Appointed as minister without portfolio, she was the first woman Cabinet minister in Alberta. She was a part of “The Famous Five”.
J.S. Woodsworth
J.S. Woodsworth was a pre–First World War pioneer of the Canadian Social Gospel, a Christian religious movement with social democratic values and links to organised labour. He was a long-time leader and publicist in the movement and was an elected politician under the label, serving as MP from 1921 to his death in 1942. He helped found the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), a forerunner of today’s New Democratic Party (NDP), in 1932.
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he ultimately consolidated power to become the Soviet Union’s dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalised these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism.
Julian Byng
as commander of the Canadian Corps from May 1916 to June 1917, Byng transformed the Canadians into a well-trained and effective striking force whose victory at Vimy was one of most spectacular “set-piece” attacks of the war. Byng was loved and trusted by his troops, who soon began to call themselves the “Byng Boys.” Within two months of this success, Byng was elevated to command the Third British Army.
Lionel Conacher
Lionel Conacher was nicknamed “The Big Train” and he was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country’s top athlete of the first half of the 20th century, he won championships in numerous sports.
Louise McKinney
Louise McKinney was the first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire. She was a member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and a devout Methodist and prohibitionist. She was a pioneer suffragist and one of the Famous Five behind the Persons Case, the successful campaign to have women declared persons in the eyes of British law. She was also instrumental in passing Alberta’s Dower Act in 1917.
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a Canadian-American film actress and producer with a career that spanned five decades. A pioneer in the American film industry, she co-founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Maurice Duplessis
Maurice Duplessis served as the 16th premier of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959. He rose to power after uniting his Conservative party and the breakaway Action liberale nationale progressive faction of the Liberal party of Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, to form a new national-conservative party, the Union Nationale.
Nellie McClung
Nellie McClung was a Canadian author, social activist, suffragette, politician as well as a maternal feminist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. Her great causes were women’s suffrage and temperance.
Percy Williams
Percy Williams was a Canadian athlete, winner of the 100 and 200 metres races at the 1928 Summer Olympics and a former world record holder for the 100 metres sprint.
Thomas Crerar
Thomas Crerar was a western Canadian politician and a leader of the short-lived Progressive Party of Canada. He was born in Molesworth, Ontario, and moved to Manitoba at a young age.
