Canada in the 1920s The Winnipeg General Strike • During The First World War‚ companies made extreme amounts of profit • Labour conditions‚ wages‚ etc. were almost completely neglected Context • Soldiers returned from fighting on the front having dreams of a better world (stable wages‚ better jobs‚ etc.) • Canada was in economic ruin as it tried to convert back into a peacetime economy o Inflation due to debt o Loss of jobs and the closing of factories • Unemployment rates soared The General
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Lucy Lizarraga Socials 11 Mr. Carr Minority and Majority Governments A Government is a system of political direction and control necessary to the existence of civilized society. Canada’s government operates as a federal system‚ where an organization of provincial governments is each acting on behalf of its own residents. Along Canadian history‚ there have been many governments with different beliefs; as a democratic country‚ they participate with their political parties to govern Canada. They
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Twenties The Decades of the 1920s and 1930s Contents [hide] * 1 The Decades of the 1920s and 1930s * 2 Postwar Chaos * 3 Mackenzie King & Arthur Meighen * 4 The 1921 Election * 5 Regional Politics * 6 Sidelight: King George V Proclaims Canada’s Coat of Arms * 7 The 1925 Election and the King-Byng Crisis * 8 Foreign Policy and the Imperial Conference * 9 The Roar of the "Roaring Twenties" * 10 Radio & the Talkies
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of thousands of Jewish people who want to leave Europe: the line must be drawn somewhere.” In other words‚ he felt that no exception should be made for Jewish refugees in relation to Canada’s immigration policy . Moreover‚ Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King believed that Canada was not responsible for solving internal difficulties of other
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Minister asked Canada to supply troops if war was to break out between Britain and Turkey[iv]. Prime Minister Mackenzie King was annoyed the telegram was public before he had a chance to read it and insisted that instead of sending troops right away like Britain would normally expect he would take it up with the Canadian Parliament. In truth the affair had nothing to do with Canada. King sent a telegram to Britain saying that Britain could no longer take Canadian soldiers for granted. The affair
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the ideology that it was patriotic and not unfeminine for women to work in these various industries. Posters in Canada were launched illustrating a women holding a bomb stating "I’m making bombs and buying bonds." In March 1942‚ Prime Minister Mackenzie King established the National Selective Service and declare recruitment of women for employment to be "the most important single factor of the program. Initially‚ the programs was designed to target young unmarried women. However‚ that pool was quickly
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William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) was an American educator‚ literary critic and author. He served as a professor of English at Yale University from 1901 to 1933. His works include Advance of the English Novel and Essays on Modern Dramatists. On April 6‚ 1933‚ he delivered this speech during a radio broadcast. His reverence for books was not shared by everyone‚ especially those in Nazi Germany. On May 10‚ 1933‚ the Nazis had staged an event unseen since the Middle Ages as young German students from
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pressure the country turned to politics to hopefully clean up the situation that they were facing every day. In my opinion‚ Canadian government could be more effective in its attempts to deal with the Depression. At the start of the Depression‚ Mackenzie King was the Prime minister of Canada was doing nothing. He was not prepared to deal with a crisis on the scale of the Depression at all‚ and he believed that the crisis would pass‚ and put the financial help responsibility on the municipal and provincial
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Success and Failures of Mackenzie King Kalistan‚ Anett Mrs. Ducklow CHC2L Tuesday‚ December 14th‚ 2010 Success is what most people want in their lives‚ and this is what most people strive for. Also‚ they want to have success in their lives so that they can achieve all the goals that they have planned out. They also want to accomplish these goals so they can have a successful life. On the other hand‚ failures are what most people try to avoid because they cannot be successful and
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Mackenzie King: A Political Powerhouse In a town residing in Ontario‚ a small boy sat beside his mother‚ wide-eyed‚ dreaming‚ as all children do‚ but not of some otherworldly fantasy but of making the world a better place‚ of making his mother proud. William Lyon Mackenzie King was a driven man‚ he strived to help his fellow man whenever he could. It is said he often walked through the slums of his city and thought about how tough their lives must be. He grew fascinated in this; one of his first
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