During the 1920s Political Change Robert Borden Conservative Prime Minister who helped Canada become independent from Britain Political Change Arthur Meighen Helped write the Military Service bill Conscription ID: 478724
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Social Change During the 1920sSlide2
Political ChangeRobert Borden Conservative Prime Minister who helped Canada become independent from BritainSlide3
Political ChangeArthur Meighen Helped write the Military Service bill Conscription
Replaced Borden when he resigned Workers, farmers, immigrants, and Quebecers did not like him much…Slide4
Political ChangeWilliam Mackenzie King Known as a social reformer who supported labour
groups AND free tradeBelieved in workers compensation and E.I.Slide5
ProhibitionBetween 1915 and 1917, every province except Quebec outlawed the sale and consumption of alcoholIn USA: prohibition from 1920-1933 federallyIn Canada: most gave up by mid-1920s
Created wave of crime, laws were hard to enforcehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh1TuqCYoL4 Slide6
ProhibitionSamuel Bronfman & SeagramFounded the Canada Pure Drug Company so that he could import alcohol from Europe for “medicinal purposes” (it was smuggled into USA)
Made millions. Became legitimate company after prohibition and their empire still exists today (sports teams, charity foundations, real estate, etc.)Slide7
Flappers/JazzG. Marconi Established the first radio station in Canada (Montreal)Slide8
Flappers/Jazz Jazz was the “hot new music” that defined the Roaring TwentiesCreated by African-American musicians in Louisiana
Popular on radio, gramophone recordings, and live bandsSlide9
Flappers/Jazz Dance crazes of the new music:Charleston, Black Bottom,
Lindyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0 Slide10
Flappers/Jazz Flappers
Fashionable young women who defied old conventions of proper “feminine” behaviorDanced at nightclubsWore beaded dresses that went only to the knee! Cut hair in to “boyish” bobsSmoked in public, drank alcohol AND drove their own carsSlide11
ImmigrationImmigration Act of 1919Preferred list of nationalities
= white English-speaking Britons/Americans= northern Europeans
Bottom of the list
= Asians, Blacks, Gypsies, JewsSlide12
ImmigrationRailway Agreement in 1925Allowed railway companies to recruit workers from many undesirable countries
Chinese and Black Americans were NOT allowedVery few Japanese were allowed, 150 per yearSlide13
Residential SchoolsWanted Native peoples assimilated in to white cultureOutlawed Native language, culture, and traditions like the potlatchUnderfunded schools ran by church leaders
Known for poor conditions (diet, sanitation, healthcare)Many children physically and sexually abusedSlide14
Residential SchoolsLong-lasting generational effects:AlcoholismMolesting of own family members
Breakdown of the familyLoss of language & cultureSlide15
Women & The VoteEmily Murphy, Louise McKinney & the “Famous Five”Took the “Persons Case” all the way to the Supreme Court and the British Privy Council in London to allow women to hold positions in an appointed office (public) example: to be a senatorSlide16
Mass Consumption= a shopping, consumer society
Mass
Media:
Advertisements
, catalogues, radio, billboards, magazinesSlide17
Mass ConsumptionEaton’sWas a catalogue company like Sears is todayCould buy time-saving items like washing machines and toastersSlide18
Mass ConsumptionAutomobilesMore people owned vehicles and demanded better roadwaysTourism increased greatly
Provided jobsSlide19
Mass ConsumptionRadioSeen as American cultural invasion, but many Canadians liked the music, comedy, soap operas, and preachingSlide20
Group of Seven/Emily CarrWell known artists for their style of Canadian Identity and landscapesTom
Thomson
A commercial artist who had a group of friends whose new styles of painting the Canadian landscape inspired other artists like Emily
Carr