True or False Flashcards
Before coming to Canada, Bill Miner was arrested 4 times for stage coach robbery.
True
Bill Miner spent 30 years in the San Quentin Prison
True
Indigenous Trackers were used to track Bill Miner down.
True
Miner had a tattoo of a crow on his arm.
False
It was a tattoo of a dancing lady
Bill Miner got his inspiration to rob trains from the silent film, “Great Train Robbery”
False
(He likely learned it from fellow prison inmates at San Quentin)
Bill Miner’s mugshots were taken by a female photographer named Mary Spencer.
True
The Winnipeg General Strike lasted for 10 weeks
False
(The strike lasted 6 weeks)
The Citizen’s Committee of 1000 demanded the government for increased workers rights.
False
(Despite the name, the Citizen’s Committee of 1000 was AGAINST the strike, and was composed of everyone who wanted the strike to end)
All Women gained the right to vote in one emancipation law.
False
(It was a gradual, bit by bit process to voting rights for women.)
Mary Ann Shadd proposed Education as being the best tool for improvement in society.
True
The Group of Seven were all city dwellers
True
(They all worked and lived in Toronto)
The Grey Owl was an Indigenous man preaching natural conservation.
False
(The Grey Owl, or, his real name, Archibald Belaney, was an Englishman pretending to be Indigenous)
(But, he did preach for natural conservation)
Even though they knew he wasn’t truly Indigenous, local Native tribes supported Archibald Belaney and his message.
True
In 1929-32, the global GDP dropped by 15%
True
The Western Provinces were the least affected during the Depression.
False
(They suffered perhaps the most, as they heavily relied on their exports)
The On to Ottawa Trek saw strikers march to Parliament demanding more rights for workers freedoms.
False
(They never actually made it to Ottawa. Instead, they protested in Regina)
The RCMP manage to peacefully disperse the On to Ottawa Trekkers in Regina.
False
(The RCMP beat many with batons, and in a swift panic, fire into the crowd killing 1 and injuring 100
The “Regina Plot” was the name of the On to Ottawa Trekers protest in Regina in 1935.
True
(It was the largest protest during the Great Depression in Canada)
The government handling of the Regina Plot deeply hurt Prime Minister R.B Bennets popular support in 1935.
True
Bennet will lose the election to William Lyon Mackenzie King’s Liberal government in the next election.
“Bennet’s blanket” was the name given towards newspapers used as blankets by the homeless unemployed.
True
In order to prevent dust storms from engulfing the interior of prairie houses, families would drape wet blankets over their windows.
True
Macdonald said that Day Schools were not enough, because the child would simply return home to his savage cultural family.
True
(He said if the child was at the residential school for long periods at a time, without being even near their household, they would be successfully “whitened”.
Kids at residential schools were 5x more likely to die than normal provincial school system establishments
True
In Residential Schools, half of the school day was for learning, whilst the other half was for unpaid labour.
True
