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Canadian History by Omar Sweis

Canada has experienced various social and environmental movements aimed at addressing significant issues and promoting equality. The Green Party of Ontario, inspired by Trevor Hancock, emerged to tackle climate change and compensate for insufficient governmental action on environmental matters.

Canadian History by Omar Sweis

Canadian History by Omar Sweis

1930s - This will talk about what Canadians did and what they went through during the 1930s.

The Great Depression
People lost their jobs, 4/5 Canadians didn't have jobs

This was the time Canada had the lowest job rate

Men would ride ontop of trains to go to different cities to find jobs

They couldn't pay for the train ticket so they found a cheap alternative

Because people couldn't get jobs, they couldn't afford their homes

Families were kicked out

Majority of Canadians were homeless

Relief camps were open for jobless men

Caused by the stock market crashing

Businesses couldn't afford to stay open

Owners who had money left, stopped their company and left

Riots came from this event

Murder came from the riots

Canada and Today (Forces of Change) - This will talk about Canada in present time. What has happened and what problems have been created in present day.

Discrimination

Montreal Massacre

Feminism was being more active

25 year old man didn't like that

Shot only women

Killed 14 women and himself

Colour of Skin

People of colour would call to own an apartment

They would allow

When they saw the colour of skin

They would now refuse

Until a white person gets it

Religion

Baltej Singh Dhillon and RCMP

Was training to become a mountie

Was not allowed to wear turban on duty

People were agreeing with this

In the end he was allowed to hear a turban

Some people sent hate and threats

Indigenous Rights
Oka Crisis

Wanted to cut down for golf course

People didn't like that

Protest happened

Both sides brought guns and soilders

An officer was shot

Indigenous people lost

South Moresby

Ancient rain forest for the Natives

Was planing to be cut down

Logging company had the right

Environmentalist and Indigenous people didn't like that

Got it declared a reserve

Aboriginals won

Berger Inquiry

Canada wanted to build a pipe line near Aboriginal territory

Thomas Berger was question why

Investigations happened

Got a lot of Indigenous people to support him

Technology

Home computers were invented

Offices used them

Didn't need as much jobs like telephone operators

Jobs were taken away and were replaced with technology

New Jobs created

Home Computers

Allowing people to code

People created games with this code

Game companies were invented

Machines for factories were created

Those machines broke

People needed someone to fix them

Engineering and mechanical jobs were made

Made jobs easier

The tech made it easier to multi task

Laws and Legislatures
Free Trade 1988 Elections

Canada wanted to trade with America

Canadians didn't like that

Canadians were divided

Voting sided with the Free trade

Inglis company was bought

Free Trade shut down the Inglis Company

1980 Referendum

Quebec wanted to separate

The Qui Side

Got help from Trudeau

The Non Side got back their winning side

The Non side

Was winning

Then losing

Continued their lost by shaming women

Voting starts

The Non Side wins

The Constitution

Trudeau wanted to work on the constitution

Premiers didn't like it

Sent out representatives to work out it

Trudeau didn't like that

The representatives didn't care and the Constitution got accepted

1920s - Canada during the 1920s. This will talk about what has been created or what has been popularized during this time, as well as talk about how these people lived their lives.

Technology/Science
Popularization

Telephone

Made it easier to talk to people from a long distance

Letters take months to get to their recipient and mailing problems, like messed up addresses do happen.

Phones make it so it could take those months and turn it into a couple of seconds

Planes

Because the war was over planes weren't just for the military

They created civilians planes

These planes were just meant to travel

They allowed more jobs like pilots and allowed people to travel quickly

Electric Washing Machines

Washing machines have been around since 1851

Electric Machines has been invented in 1920s

They quicken the process as well as allow the user to do other chores

Radio

Invented the in 1800s

Popularized because it was cheaper than a T.V aswell as a great source of entertainment

Hydroelectricity

1st used in 1878

Its a clean way to get electricity

Fridge

Fridges were popularized during this time

They made storing food easier

Before people had different ways to store food depending on weather but they couldn't check if their food was expired

The fridge was a quick fix

Inventions/Discoveries

Pablum

Pablum is basically baby food

Children at this time were suffering from rickets, a disease cause by lack of nutrients. Mostly affected children and babies because their lack of teeth made it hard to eat food

Pablum was smooth, and liquid like so people could easily digest it without biting and get they get their nutrients. Stopping rickets.

Instant Camera

Invented by Samuel Shlafrock

The instant camera was supposed to be a portable way for people to take pictures without setting up a huge camera. However it costed a lot so not everyone had it

It works really well in dark rooms

The police found it to be a very useful tool

Cars (Ford T)

Invented in 1908

The Ford T was a fast was to travel around a city or visit a neighbouring one

They were really expensive

The Television

Invented in 1927 by Philo Farnsworth

It was a way to get easy news, and entertain families. as well as see visuals.

They costed alot, however so most people during this time had a radio

Penicillin

Discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming and his team

Penicillin was used to stop bacteria from growing

It stopped a lot of diseases

Gonorrhoea

Pneumonia

Infections

Insulin

Discovered by Sir Frederick G Banting, Charles H Best, and JJR Macleod in the University of Toronto

Insulin was a way for people to survive type 1 diabetes

Before people with type 1 could only live 1 to 2 years

With insulin their life span increased

Fashion
Men's

Men's clothing was the most formal it has ever been

Wore suits

Knitted sweaters

Overcoats

Wore top hats

Canes

Grooming was very important for men in this era

They would have a clean cut of hair

Beards were hardly seen during this time

Sailor like outfits

Clothes made from velvet

Women's

Kid's fashion

Dresses

With a light cardigan around them

Women during this time wore a variety of clothes

Fur coats

Daywear

Fancy dresses

Little black dresses

Casual clothes

Accessories

Umbrellas

Hats

Feathers

Flapper girls

Women were making a statement, they wanted to change how soectity saw women

Flapper girls had short, masculine like hair

Flapper girls had short loose dresses

Flapper girls wore tiny hats

Crime
Bootlegging

This was selling alcohol illegally

This also including selling their own alcohol

People usually created something called rotgut

Rotgut was a poorly made drink with toxic alcohol

Drinking rotgut would lead to blindness, sickness, and even death

People managed to smuggle alcohol throw borders between the US and Canada

Tax/Inseurance fraud
Murder
Human trafficking
Counterfeiting
Pornography
Prostitution was common in the 1920s
Bank Robberies would take place in the 1920s
Sports
Basketball

Created by James Naismith in 1981 at Spring field college

The game has a lot of native roots

The Olmec Civilization actually played the game in1200-400 BCE

Basketball gained its popularity when it came to the YMCA

First popularized in the US, then afterwards came to Canada

Another reason it grew was the fact it was a low-risk game, meaning less people were getting injured playing it

Baseball

Origins come from 2 games rounders and cricket

Popularized in 1800s

It was a simple game

Since the game has been created the rules have been constantly changing

Hockey

First recorded being playing in Montreal in 1875

The origins of hockey are still not known but most people think they came from Canada

It may not be true that Canada created the game they're really good at it

They created the NHL in 1917

And hosted many games during the 1920s

Entrainment
Music

Jazz music was popular at the time

It was invented by African Americans

Oscar Peterson being a famous name of Jazz in the 1920s

Dance

Dancing at night clubs would be very popular in the 1920s

Popular dance moves

The Tango

The Foxtrot

The Black Bottom

The Brazilian Samba

The Texas Tommy

The Shimmy

Dancing competitions

Dancing competitions would be very popular in 1920s

They would be competitions to see who can dance the longest

They would last from days, to weeks, to months with some breaks in-between

This would actually be a problem because some people would die from these competitions because of the constant dancing

Most had competitions that give money and have different divisions

Pros would join in beginner divisions to get easy money

Silent films were loosing their popularity

Talkies were taking over

Talkies were films that were not silent and had sound

The first talkie was The Jazz Singer

Art
The Group of Seven

Art Style

Long strokes using oil paint

Usually would draw natural Canadian landscapes

Members

Offical

A.J Casson

F.H Varley

J.E.H Macdonald

Arthur Limser

Lawren Harris

Franz Johnston

Frank Carmichael

A.Y Jackson

Honorary

Emily Carr

Emily Carr was inspired by Lawren Harris

She would often visit the group and hang out with them

The group did like her a lot and declared her an honorary member

Emily Carr was known for her drawings and her writings

Tom Thompson

Tom Thompson would suggest the idea the group of seven

His art style would be the style the group of seven was known for

Sadly he died before the group was officially created

Goal/Results

To stray away from Britain and what was popular there

They wanted to do this by showing natural Canadian landscapes

In the end the were successful by showcasing Canadian art al over the world and inspiring Canadian artist to find their own style. EX: Emily Carr

The Beaver Hall group

Goal

Subtopic

Memebers

WW1 - This is about battle Canadian fought in WW1, their contributions, the environment and how it ended

Homefront
Reduce food consuption

Soldiers needed as much food as they can and to take off the load of farmers, people would do special causes to save food

Meatless Mondays

On Mondays people wouldn't eat any meat based products so they could give it to soldiers

Wheat-less Wednesdays

Wheatless Wednesdays

On Wednesdays people wouldn't eat any food with wheat in them so they could give it to soldiers

War Act Measure

Prime Minstears were in complete control

They could arrest anyone who they suspected to be a spy

They didn't allow immigrants during this time

They worried that everyone they allowed would be a spy

More work load

Farmers had to work harder

The amount of soldiers fighting for the triple entente was a-lot

Because of this farmers need to make as much food as possible for Canadian citizens and soldiers

Factorys had to work harder

They were creating weapons, ammo and other supplies for the soldiers at this time

Properganda

Posters shaming men for not joining the army

Would Appear everywhere

Billboards

Movies

Street Walls

Battle of Vimy Ridge

Battle Field

Snowy

Cold

Took place in Vimy Ridge, France

Trenches filled with animals

Mouses

Fleas

Lice

Muddy

Windy

Battle started April 9 1917

Ended April 12 1917

Canadians troops came before the battle ready to set up their defesnses

100,000 Canadian soldiers fought in this war

Canada brought all divisons of their soilders soilders

10,000 total casualties

Canada was established as a country not a British colony

Women
Bluebirds

Women would volunteer to be war nurses

Helped heal wounds of soliders

Saved many soldiers' lives

Because of their hard work during those uncertain times they received praise

they would receive honors

They would wear these blue outfits

So soldiers called them bluebirds

They replaced alot of jobs at home

Women and chilren replaced farmer jobs

Because most of the males were sent to war

Women and children replaced industry jobs

Because most of the males were sent to war

Created Women Organizations

This organizations would help women in struggling times

Women would give other women resources that they need

They gave soldiers items they made

Knitted Gloves

Bed Clothing

Bandages

Quilts

Baked Goods

Crafts

Voulnteers

Red Cross

Other Non Profit Organizations

Battle of Somme
Battle started July 1 1916

Ended November 18 1916

Canadians arrived before the battle began

Helped attack Ancre Heights

Helped attack the Thiepval

Helped attack the Courcelette

Traveled through no man's land

Helping the attack

Causalities

More than 1 million causalities

The Triple Axis won

River of Somme

Trenches

450 miles long

Had barbed wires surrounding it

Very muddy

Sunny for most

Rainy on other days

The Battle of Passchendaele

275,000 British casualties

222,000 German casualties

16,000 Canadian casualties

Unknown amount of animals were killed during this battle

Triple Entente won

Battle started July 31, 1917

Ended November 10, 1917

Canadians joined first week

Around 100,000 soldiers were Canadian

Battle set at Ypres

Rained 2/3 days for the entire battle

The battle was very muddy

This slowed down soldiers and animals getting some of them killed

Battle of Ypres
Starts at April 22, 1915

Ended May 25, 1915

Canadians joined the first week

Canadian Soldiers survived chlorine gas bomb attacks

They didn't have gas masked, so they did this by breathing into handkerchiefs filled with urine

Hold down the triple alliance forces to for triple entente soldiers to come for backup

This lead into triple entente forces to win the battle

Canadians created the famous poem Flanders Field

Battle set at westside Ypres

Very rainy, rained every day of the battle

This lead to the location being very muddy

Casualites

35,000 German casualties

59,000 British casualties

6,500+ Canadian casualties

22,000 French casualties

Canada gained respect for their efforts

Post War 1919 - This will talk about how life for Canadians changed after the first world war. What problems happened during this time and how Canada handled them.

Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu caused a pandemic

Schools, churches, business, etc. were all closed down

50,000 Canadians died from this disease

Lead to the Federal Department of Health

Job Loss
Soldiers coming back were out of a job

They were asking for jobs but if they got one someone would have either be fired or laid off

Inflation raised prices

People were complaining more as the money they got from being in the war wasn't good enough

People were fed up and created a general strike

Factory owners made so much money during the war

They decided to close down their businesses

Women who were working in these factories were told to go back home and do their womanly duties

Women, who have been doing most of the work during the war were outrage

Women as well joined the general strike

Montreal General Strike
Canadians were upset that they were getting either no jobs or the jobs they were getting were paying very little that they couldn't buy anything

The strike was to protest that people should have more job opportunities and that there should be higher pay and less hours

The strike was happening for months

People without jobs were giving up the strike and went make to low paying jobs just so they could mean ends meet

They failed in their original goal and no demands were met

This strike brought more attention to the economical problems of Canada to everyone throughout Canada

Many people in the strike didn't have a job to go back to

Most leaders were arrested

Canadian Movements - This will talk about Canadians movements. These moments will be fighting for equality or taking action in major problems happening in Canada.

Feminist Movements
Burning Bras

This would be women burning their bars and walking around braless

This was supposed to represent the women freedom have

There were "Freedom trash cans" where women could burn everything they felt was oppressing them

Irene Murdoch

Irene Murdoch got divorced and her and her husband shared a farm when married.

They both put the same amount of effort and the same amount of time into that farm

When the divorce case settled Irene's former ex-husband got the farm and Irene got $200/month

This led to protests and changed laws around divorce to make settlement more equal

Charter of Rights

When the charter of rights when introduced the Irene Murdoch situation was still new

This led women to feel like the charter didn't cater to the inequality women were facing nor protecting them from it

Women stroke protests in order to combat this

The Canadian government listened to them and made them write an "equality clause" in the charter

Person's case

The BNA act was an act that stated "persons" however, this only meant men

Women protested against this so that "persons" would mean women as well

The Canadian government listened to them and stated the "persons" means women as well, and not just men

Suffragettes

These would be women fighting for the right to vote and the ability to run for office

In 1917 - 1940 Canada slowly gave women the rights to be able to vote in every province

Environmental Movements
Earth Day

Earth Day was a way to spread awareness about the earth's ecosystem

There was no acts to prevent people from damaging the environment

Because of this Nelson Gaylord wanted to do something to bring awareness to the eco-problems

April 22 1970 was the first time Earth Day was officially celebrated it

Canada was one of the countries that celebrated on the first Earth Day

Insecticides

During the 1970 Canada was planning on using spraying forests with insecticides

There was also a possible link that the insecticides were killing children

Camp Breton began protesting about the use of insecticides

When there was a vote to say yes or no to the insecticides, 18 to 1 people voted against it

Green Party of Ontario

Trevor Hancock suggested that Canada should have a green party to protect Canadian

This goal changed in the long term to fight climate change

The Green Party wanted to make up for the lack of innovative that the government was doing and actually increasing Canada's carbon footprint

Indigenous Movements
MMIWG

Multiple Indigenous women have gone missing and multiple murders of Indigenous women have not been solved, and the police did nothing

To combat this the people created the MMIWG

This organization is to help find these missing women or solve these murder cases

LGBTQA+ Movements
We Demand

In August 28, 1971. 100 - 200 people came to Parliament Hill in Ottawa

They demand 10 rights to stop homophobia

Effects around Canada

Toronto become the first province to ban discrimination against LGBTQ++

LGBTQ++ members were allowed to immigrate to Canada

Parliament hill may have rejected the demands, however Ottawa become the first province to ban discrimination against LGBTQ++

Original Outcome Results

All their demands were rejected

BLM Movements
After multiple discrimination and multiple crime cases from discrimination against Black people from government and police as well as multiple hate groups for Black people. People were fed up.

People created BLM, in order to spread awareness of discrimination

BLM modern day

The goal still hasn't changed, BLM is still a way to spread awareness and stop discrimination on black people

It is still needed during this time as police are still murdering black people when not warranted

George Floyd

Daunte Wright

Discrimination that led to BLM

Slavery

Segregation when the supreme court allowed businesses to discriminate against black people

Death by police that weren't warranted and were cause by discrimination

Micheal Brown

Trayvon Martin

When activities in the 90s brought attention to this problem

Martin Luther King

Viola Desmond

WW2 - This will talk about Canadians in WW2, which battles they took place in, how those battles ended. what Canadians did in those battles, and what sacrifices those Canadians made

Invasion of Sicily
Battle started July 9 1943

Ended Aug 17 1943

Canadians joined the first day of the battle

Canadians breached German defensive borders

It made sure the the Triple Axis forces couldn't hide behind them anymore

Breaching defensive lines made it easier for the Triple Alliance forces to travel through Sicily

The first day they came in they defeated a lot of Italian Soldiers, advancing their forces easily

Because of this, on the second day the Canadians came. Many Italian soldiers were surrendering

23,000 Allies Casualties

19,400 Canadians Injured

30,000 Nazis Died

100,000 Axis Soldiers captured

135,000 Italians Died

5,300 Canadians Died

Triple Alliance won because they managed to the Triple Axis forces retreat off the island

The weather was extremely windy

The Triple Alliance used this weather to their advantage by using the fact that the Triple Axis forces wouldn't think they would use airplanes in this weather

Island of Sicily

Battle of Britain
Battle started July 10 1940

Ended October 31 1940

Canadians joined first day

Elise Macgill

She found a way to make airplanes in a quick amount of time

She created the hurricane

The hurricane was fast, stronger and better than any German plane

The hurricane was the main reason the Triple Alliance won

The Royal Canadian Air Force fought in the battle

100 Canadians fought in the battle

The Triple Alliance won because Hitler knew he couldn't beat the hurricanes so he surrendered

English Channel

D-Day
Battle started ended June 6, 1944, was originally the 5th but because of weather, it was delayed

ended 30 June 1944

Canadian navy

Gave 110 ships

14,000 troops

Near the cost of Normandy

Strong winds, rough seas

Triple Alliance won

200,000 German casualties

5,000 Canadians died

The Battle of the Atlantic
Battle started September 3, 1939

Ended 1945, 6 years later

Canadians joined 10 September 1939

Sent Royal Air Force Coastal troops

sent Royal Canadian Navy troops

It took place in the Atlantic Ocean

It was wet

2,352 Canadian casualties

36,000 allied soldiers died

36,000 merchants died

The Triple Allies won

Battle of Ortona

Ortona Italy

Battle started December 20 1943

Ended December 28 1943

2,600 Canadians troops

Mountain boys

Trained Canadians soldiers who would fight on mountain tops

Triple Allies won

26,000 Italian casualties

500 Canadians died

2,300 allied casualties

Blitzkrieg
A strategy by Germans

Hit fast and hit hard

The main goal is to invade into enemy territory as much as you can

They would attack using mostly tanks, if they had to use foot soldiers, the solider would be near tanks

Canadian Contributions

Every time any Canadian fought in the war, it would fight against blitzkrieg

Naval troops

Foot soilders

Tank riders

Areal troops

Dunkirk

Casualities

17,000 soldiers died

Environment

Weather

Occasional thunder storms

Not cloudy

Battle started May 26 1940

Ended June 4 1940

Canadians joined Dunkirk in 1939, they were there when the battle officially started

The Canadian navy helped fight in the battle of Dunkirk

Battle of Dieppe
Evironment

Dieppe

Battle started and ended August 19, 1942

Canadians joined the first day

Canadian contributions

They did frontal attacks

This put major pressure on the Axis forces

Results

Triple Axis won

106 Allied aircraft were destoryed

Casualties

907 Canadian soldier died

Internment Camps
After what Japan did, Canada was worried about the Japanese Canadians

Their idea was to kick every Japanese Canadian put of their homes and put them into Internment Camps

These camps would have hard living coditions

Japanese Canadians also had to work in these camps to make sure they're functionally

They had to work for their own punishment

It didn't matter if they were born and lived in Canada their entire lives

Because they didn't even trust their own Canadians, they didn't allow any Japanese immigrants to come to Canada during these times