The New Way Of Life In Canada During The 20th Century

Canada’s New Way of Life
Canadians went under dramatic changes of their identity throughout the 20th century. Throughout Canada’s existence has created quite a reputation. New factories arose across Canada over the late 19th and early 20th century allowing thousands of Canadians, including women, to find a job being able to support their family. The Canadian society saw a huge transformation of farmers, loggers and fur traders during the 20th century. New provinces were settling in as well as colonizing in the late 1800s. New cities began to spring up and by the 1910s over 50% of Canadians were living in the urban areas, rather than rural areas. The revolution saw a dramatic growth in city based factory worked. Canada’s raw natural resources
After the economic boom in the 1920s, a severe depression hit in the 1930s, putting millions out of work and putting even more into poverty. Desperate Canadian workers and voters became extremely interested into the radical ideas and political parties and new movements including socialism, communism, fascism and more. This was a time of radicalism. Early feminists’ protests earned Canadian women the right vote in 1918, and union activists helped abolish child labour in the 1920s. However, by 1939, the nation’s leader become distracted by political happenings in Europe. Britain had declared war on Adolph Hitler’s fanatic Nazi regime in Germany which took place between 1889 and 1945. Although Canada was no longer obligate to do anything about it, the pro-British sentiment continued to stay strong. The government of Prime Minister Mackenzie King passed a declaration of war against Germany one week later. Canadian troops were once again sent to Europe. When Britain declared war on Germany’s Asian ally Japan in 1941, Canada once again followed suit, and the war expanded to the
The idea that Quebec was too different from the rest of Canada to exist as a province, and realized that it’s full potential could only be reached as an independent country. This idea received quite some popularity, but was not able to come through because of Quebec’s poor economy. This being the sixties, a certain vein of Quebec separatists turned into communists and took place in terrorism, with the Front de Liberation du Quebec emerging as the movement’s main terror group, setting off hundreds of bombs in government buildings across the province. In 1970, the FLQ terrorists kidnapped and killed the vice premier of Quebec, Pierre LaPorte, prompting Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to declare martial law in the province, deploying the military to restore order. Hundreds of Quebeckers with suspected separatist were rounded up and thrown in jail. An openly separatist Quebec government, led by Premier Rene Levesque was elected in 1976, and a referendum on separation from Canada was held in 1980. It failed, but the dynamic of Canadian-Quebec relations had forever been