Post War Canada: Turmoil and Unrest

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Banned all Chinese people from entering Canada except for students, merchants and diplomats. Only 8 Chinese people were admitted to Canada To Chinese Canadians 1 July 1923 is known as "Humiliation day"

Only veterans and their families were being treated fairly in terms of compensation while the government disregarded everyone else

Labor and farmer groups pressured the government to introduce unemployment insurance and "old age" pensions for non-veterans

Provided unemployed veterans who just reached 60 with Pension

-to be entitled for $240 you had to be a British subject and live in Canada for at least 20 years -if you made over $365/yr you weren't eligible for pension -women couldn't receive pension unless widowed -Aboriginals weren't eligible

Came with many restrictions

This act offered land to veterans who wanted to farm

Banned the production, import and transportation of liquor which brought about the creation and selling of illegal liquor called Bootleg Booze. Canadians made a lot of money smuggling Canadian Liquor into America since America was "dry from 1919-1933

Prohibition

The Federal Department of Health was created due to this epidemic and took 2 years to have a real impact

Soldiers returned from war with the Spanish Flu, which continued to spread overseas and around the world. 50,000 Canadians lost their lives to this flu.

Influenza epidemic

A parade protesting the arrests of the strike leaders eventually became serious enough for the Mounted Police to arrive and charge the crowd. Leaving 30 injured and 1 dead

Bloody Saturday

Consisted of the opposition

Consisted of the "strikers"

Citizen's Committee of One Thousand

The Central Strike Committee

Many immigrants settled down in Winnipeg for it's growing economic centre. The immigrants wanted improved working conditions and the wealthy were against these demands and this caused tension in the city. Soon enough building and metal trade councils voted to go on strike, which later on led to a general strike that spread to other cities too.

Winnipeg General Strike

The wheat Market collapsed because Europe couldn't afford to buy Canadian Wheat

Farmers formed their own federal political party called the National Progressives

The National Progressives won 65 seats in the house of commons, second to the liberals

Chinese Exclusion Act

1923

The Soldier Settlement Act

War Veterans Allowance Act

The Pension Act

Aboriginals struggled to have their rights recognized

Every Aboriginal Child between 7 & 15 we forced to attend the residential schools

There were 80 residential schools around the country

A Mohawk veteran from WW1 organized the League of Nations

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