History
2. Canada in the Roaring 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 * 11 Canadians in Hollywood * 12 Guy Lombardo Rings in New Years Eve * 13 Art & The Group of Seven * 14 The Growth of Canadian Sport * 15 Sidelight: James Naismith Invents Basketball * 15.1 The First Game * 16 Toronto Ices First Professional Team * 17 The Edmonton Grads * 18 The Bluenose * 19 Sidelight: Bombardier and His Snowmobile * 20 The Persons Case * 21 Background of the "Persons" Case * 22 The End of Prohibition * 23 Dr. Frederick Banting Discovers a Treatment For Diabetes * 24 Sidelight: Birth of the Dionne Quintuplets
Borden and Currie Review the Troops
With the planned symmetry of the number eleven, the Great War, as it was then called, came to an end on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. The conclusion of World War One marks, quite logically, one 'bookend' for both Canadian and world history. Two very different decades would follow. "The Roaring Twenties" were marked by unprecedented but unequally distributed prosperity. "The Dirty Thirties" witnessed untold suffering and hardship as the Great Depression left millions unemployed, destitute, and hungry. Then on September 1, 1939, the other 'bookend' would appeared, with the Nazi blitzkrieg of Poland, and the outbreak of World War Two.
However, even before the decade of the twenties began, three significant events happened in Canada. The
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 * 11 Canadians in Hollywood * 12 Guy Lombardo Rings in New Years Eve * 13 Art & The Group of Seven * 14 The Growth of Canadian Sport * 15 Sidelight: James Naismith Invents Basketball * 15.1 The First Game * 16 Toronto Ices First Professional Team * 17 The Edmonton Grads * 18 The Bluenose * 19 Sidelight: Bombardier and His Snowmobile * 20 The Persons Case * 21 Background of the "Persons" Case * 22 The End of Prohibition * 23 Dr. Frederick Banting Discovers a Treatment For Diabetes * 24 Sidelight: Birth of the Dionne Quintuplets
Borden and Currie Review the Troops
With the planned symmetry of the number eleven, the Great War, as it was then called, came to an end on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. The conclusion of World War One marks, quite logically, one 'bookend' for both Canadian and world history. Two very different decades would follow. "The Roaring Twenties" were marked by unprecedented but unequally distributed prosperity. "The Dirty Thirties" witnessed untold suffering and hardship as the Great Depression left millions unemployed, destitute, and hungry. Then on September 1, 1939, the other 'bookend' would appeared, with the Nazi blitzkrieg of Poland, and the outbreak of World War Two.
However, even before the decade of the twenties began, three significant events happened in Canada. The