Canada in the Roaring

Twenties

Economy

Economy Canada’s Primary Industries:

“Staple” exports: Wheat, Mining, Pulp & Paper Hydro Electricity

Big Three American Auto Companies: Ford Chrysler General Motors

Canadian economy tied to US; relies heavily on US trade and US companies (manufacturing)

20’s Culture

20’s Culture Consumerism / Materialism Rejection of traditional values ->

music, dancing, women, failure of prohibition

Surrealist Art Emily Carr Group of Seven

The age of the radio The emergence of fame and

celebrity (Hollywood)

Prohibition

Prohibition Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Successfully lobby for prohibition “Vote Dry” / “Vote Wet” Didn’t last long in Canada

Rum-Running: West Coast to Washington, Oregon, Cali…; Great Lakes to Chicago

Al Capone

Women in the 20’s

Women in the 20’s

Political and Legal RightsAgnes Macphail: 1st woman MP (Member of Parliament) 1921Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy*, and the Famous Five

Emily Murphy = 1st woman judge, 1916 Male colleagues not too happy, she is discriminated

against; women can’t serve in Senate British North America Act (BNA Act 1867): “Only

qualified ‘Persons’ may serve” “Persons” Case 1929 – a victory for women

SocietyFlappers

Non-conservative clothing Short hair Beginnings of social liberation

Aboriginals Poor social and

economic conditions on Reserves

Policy of assimilation

Residential Schools

Potlatch Aboriginal title (land

claims)

Immigrants & Minorities Immigrants from Russia and Eastern

Europesuspected of being “socialist

revolutionaries” Immigration from Asia severely

restricted African immigrants discouraged W.A.S.P (White Anglo-Saxon and

Protestant) During early 20s govt. adopted

immigrationrestrictions, preference to GB and US,

wheneconomy improved (1925) this

changed Anti-Semitism

In your groups: craft a thesis for the framing essay question. 5 min max.

Great DepressionThe Dirty Thirties

Laissez-Faire capitalism – “Let Do / Let it be” = little government intervention in the economy

Supply & Demand From Boom to Bust to Depression

October 29, 1929 Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)

New York, Montreal, Toronto Worldwide depression is “made in America”

Black Tuesday, Oct 29, 1929

Causes1.Overproduction2.Reliance on staple exports3.Canada too reliant on USA4.Black Tuesday market crash – over speculation,

buying on margin5.Protectionism and Tariffs

- Tariffs = taxes on foreign goods entering the country

- You protect your own industry by taxing foreign competition (protectionism)

6.Debt from WWI

1.Todd Bertuzzi was a vicious and violent player.2.The punch was retaliation for a hit Moore had

laid on one of Bertuzzi’s teammates the prior game.

3.Coach Marc Crawford had encouraged his players to hurt Moore

4.The incident was a result of the violent culture in the NHL.

5.The incident was caused by the removal of the instigator rule.

Underlying or Immediate Cause?