Regretful Moments In Canadian History

Final Essay By Brain
Throughout Canadian’s history, Canada has been through rough and dark moments and hard obstacles. Canada wasn’t always the best country, it had always been one problem leading to another problem. Canada had many regretful moments that we wish hadn’t had happened. Canada also needed to face those obstacles once in a life time to make sure those obstacles don’t come back, or if it does we will know the right move to conquer those obstacles. In the past, we thought we could trust the Canadian government to make the right movements but that did not happen because it leads to many problems and it also lead to many suffering to all Canadian citizens. Many people back then had fight till death
The social change for women had to be one of the most enormous important topic. Women didn’t have many rights and privilege compared to in the past. Women was low ranked compared to men. Married women had to give most of the right and privileges to the husband. Women also couldn’t keep their earning that they earned, women were forced to give all of it to the husband. Back then Women were known for “cleaning the house and look after the kids”. Since the husband is at war most of the time, many jobs were not opened for women. Women’s that had jobs tried to show men that they are capable of doing what men could do if not even more. Until 1891, it got worse when husbands were by law able to hit and abuse the wife with a stick if they wished
Throughout World War 1 Racism was getting worse when other people from other countries were immigrating to Canada. On May 23, 1914, racism had become a huge issue in Canada. It started when police and the military at the Port of Vancouver rejected the Hong Kong ship known as the Komagata Maru. This ship had been carrying 376 passengers from Punjab India. Only 24 out of the 376 passengers were able to make it in Canada. At the time citizens living in Canada called the country a “White man’s country”. Xenophobia played a huge factor in this because people living in Canada were fear of other people from other countries, that’s what shaped the whole Komagata Maru incident. When they were escorted back to India 19 passengers were killed by gunfire and the rest were imprisoned. This incident had made a huge impact to us today because we as Canadians are starting to reevaluate what we did wrong and how can we compensate for our mistakes. On May 18, 2016, our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized in the House of Commons for the Komagata Maru. Prime Minister Trudeau stated in his apology that “Canada cannot solely be blamed for every tragic mistake that occurred with the Komagata Maru and its passengers. But Canada’s government was, without question, responsible for the laws that prevented these passengers from immigrating peacefully and securely. For that, and for every regrettable consequence that