Zusammenfassung der Ressource
1920's Canada
- Economy
- important industires
- wheat
- Natural Resources (lead, paper, copper)
- Manufacturing consumer goods
- HydroElectricity
- Post war
- many returning soldiers
- workers wanted higher wages
- many strikes
- !919: one big union was formed for all Canadian workers
- many people moved into citys and less people lived in small towns
- US investment
- prior to WW1 brotian was our major trading partner
- After the war we traded more with the US
- US ownership of Cdn. industy increased
- Especially paper pulp and mining
- US companies set up branch plants in canada
- owned and operated in US and profits went to US
- inflation of prices
- the rise of the price of goods and cost of living demanded higher wages for workers
- Government
- Prime minister
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Lord Byng ignores request to have another election
- government gave 2000$ and other help to war vets
- Help w/ housing and medical
- conscription created a gap between French and English Canadians
- autonomy
- Britian
- We relied less on Britain
- Before war Britain was our major trading partner
- USA
- We now relied heavily on the US economy
- US investment in our economy
- Independence
- represented ourselves during treaty of Versailles
- refused to military troops to help Britain in turkey
- 1926 London conference declares Canada as equal to Britain not a colony
- social history
- Aboriginals
- residential schools
- Got far less money for relief paymernts
- Cut-off land continues to be taken
- banned potluch
- Women
- more job oppourtunities after the war
- Women had a bigger role inb society
- there were lots of concerns about women doing what they wanted
- shorter dresses, dancing in public
- gained the right to vote
- agres macphail first women in house of commons
- oct 1929 all women now considered people