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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Trudeau said he was willing to fight during World War II‚ but he believed that to do so would be to turn his back on the population of Quebec that he believed had been betrayed by the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Trudeau reflected on his opposition to conscription and his doubts about the war in his Memoirs (1993): "So there was a war? Tough... if you were a French Canadian in Montreal in the early 1940s‚ you did not automatically believe that this was a just war... we tended to think
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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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rebellion of W. Mackenzie in Upper Canada. Mackenzie started his rebellion in a tavern/ bar fight. The Upper Canada Rebellion also ended quite unsuccessful. After the rebellions‚ Both Papineau and McKenzie fled to the United States‚ leaving their follower rebels to face their punishments. As a result‚ the rebels would either have a death penalty or be transported to Bermuda/ Australia for 7 years. The lower Canadian rebels would have their crops and fields burned. William Lyon Mackenzie was a fiery and
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to rural areas with poor farming conditions and had to travel around the land set aside‚ wasting precious time and energy. Immigrants from America resented the fat that the government denied them from their political rights. In the 1820s‚ William Lyon Mackenzie‚ a crusading journalists with great enthusiasm and little judgement‚ launched a fierce attack on the Family Compact. Despite several attempts to silence him‚
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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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