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35 Cards in this Set
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Prohibition 1918
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The banning of alcohol; production and consumption.
- Rum-runners smuggle booze across U.S - Canadian borders to make money |
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Spanish Flu of 1919
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Fifty thousand dead in epidemic.
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Banting and Best
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Discoverers of insulin in 1922, they saved thousands of diabetics lives.
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One Big Union (O.B.U.)
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Skilled and unskilled workers unite into a single union to get higher wages and an eight hour workday.
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Winnipeg General Strike
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City shut down by striking workers.
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Bloody Saturday
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One man killed; thirty were injured; hundreds arrested in a day of protest.
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J.S. Woodsworth
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Elected in 1921, this Winnipeg MP became the first leader of the C.C.F.
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Immigration in the Twenties
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British ex-servicemen recruited; "foreigners" shut out.
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Wheat Pools & Co-operatives
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Businesses owned by farmers to find customers for their grain.
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Branch Plant System
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American businesses make products in Canada to avoid high tariffs and taxes at border.
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Chanak Affair of 1922
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Turkey attacked by Britain and Canada refuses to participate with Britain.
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Halibut Treaty of 1923
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Canada wins right to sign first treaty on its own.
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King-Byng Crisis of 1926
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Prime minister is furious with Governor-General who refuses to dissolve Parliament and call election.
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New Foreign Embassies 1927-1928
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Vincent Massey becomes Canada's first foreign diplomat.
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Statute of Westminster 1931
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Canada was made completely self-governing and Britain no longer makes laws for Canada.
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Radio Broadcast 1931
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"Hockey Night in Canada" begins with announcer named Foster Hewitt.
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Henry Ford's "Model T"
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Affordable, mass-produced $395 car for North Americans.
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Joseph-Armand Bombardier
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Inventor of the snowmobile in 1922 when he was only 15 years old.
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Flappers
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Young women who dressed outrageously often wearing short skirts and boots with buckles unfastened.
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Emily Murphy
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One of the "Famous Five" who, in 1928, proved a woman was a "person" in law and therefore qualified to sit as a judge or in the Canadian Senate.
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Lionel Conacher
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Incredibly talented male athlete who excelled at many sports, including baseball and football.
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Great Depression
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Serious business downturn in which unemployment reached high levels and many businesses went bankrupt.
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Black Tuesday
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The day the stock market crashed in October of 1929.
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Buying "On Margin"
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Purchase of stocks using bank loans and credit. Many of these loans could not be repaid and led to thousands of business bankruptcies.
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Unemployment Relief Camps of 1932
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Single, unemployed men work and make 20 cents a day doing manual work.
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Relief Money
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Emergency financial assistance given to some of the unemployed to stop them from starving.
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"Five Cent Piece" Speech
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Prime Minister W.L.M. King refuses to give social welfare money to provinces; becomes an issue in 1930 and King loses election to R.B. Bennett.
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On to Ottawa Trek of 1935
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Thousands of men fed up with life in B.C. relief camps board trains for Ottawa but Prime Minister Bennett has the RCMP stop them in Regina.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) 1936
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Began as a commission to counter American domination of airwaves; became powerful force promoting a sense of national unity.
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National Film Board (NFB)
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Established in 1939, its goal was to promote the production and distribution of films with a Canadian focus
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Governor General's Award
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Designed to promote Canadian writing, these were originally given only to authors who wrote in English; in 1959, authors who wrote in French also included.
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"New Deal"
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Program of reforms introduced by Prime Minister R.B. Bennett which tried to employ workers in large-scale federal public work projects; failed because it was too late to help.
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Social Credit
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Western political parties that came to power in Alberta in 1935; promised $25 a month to every adult.
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Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (C.C.F.)
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Political party formed in 1932 by farmers, labour groups and teachers; wanted social and economic reforms to end suffering caused by the Depression.
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Union Nationale
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Quebec-based political party, led by Maurice Duplessis, that blamed the English-minority in Quebec for the province's economics and social problems.
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