Canada and the 1920s & 1930s

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Canada and the 1920s 1930s

• As the very cliché saying goes all good things
  must come to an end. Such was the case with the
  roaring twenties as the decade was termed.
  After the disparity of World War I, Canadians
  were ready to leave the grief behind and create a
  new, fresh beginning -- the 1920s. The 1920s
  brought with it economic boom, inventions, rights
  for women, among many other accomplishments.
• Nonetheless, all of this prosperity came to an
  end in the latter 1920s and into the 1930s when
  disparity ruled once again, but it ruled in a
  slightly different way than in World War I. The
  economy was in bad shape, the unemployment rate
  was high, and drought and grasshoppers ruined the
  crops in prairie Canada. These were only a few
  things that helped name the 1930s The Dirty
  30s!

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Persons Case

• After reading the following text, answer the 5Ws
  H, and explain how this is significant to
  Lauriers statement The twentieth century
  belongs to Canada.
• One of the most famous cases in Canadian legal
  history--the Persons Case--was brought by five
  Alberta women--Emily Murphy (Herstory 1974),
  Nellie McClung (Herstory 1974), Irene Parlby
  (Herstory 1975), Henrietta Muir Edwards (Herstory
  1976), and Louise McKinney (Herstory 1981).
• They asked the Supreme Court of Canada to
  declare that women were persons under the meaning
  of the British North America Act and therefore
  eligible to be appointed to the Senate.
  Unfortunately, the judges did not believe that
  women were persons under the Act.
• As Mary Ellen Smith (Herstory 1974) said "The
  iron dropped into the souls of women in Canada
  when we heard that it took a man to decree that
  his mother was not a person."
• After consultation, and with the full backing of
  the government of Alberta, the five appealed to
  the British Privy Council, then Canada's highest
  court of appeal. On October 18, 1929, the Privy
  Council declared that women are indeed persons.
  Today, we celebrate "Person's Day" and since
  1979, several women each year are awarded
  person's day medals.
• Information from http//library.usask.ca/herstory
  /person.html
• Picture from http//www.thestudy.qc.ca/highschool
  /Departments/CompSci/swork/web/cwomen/pages/savard
  /famous5/personscase.html

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The Prairie Drought

• Answer the following questions after analysing
  the photo on the left-hand side
• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?
• How?
• Explain how this photo is significant to
  Lauriers statement The twentieth century
  belongs to Canada.
• Photos from
• Top
• http//archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-70-1407/disasters_tra
  gedies/drought/
• Bottom -- http//res2.agr.ca/publications/hw/09b_e
  .htm

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The Roaring Twenties

• After analysing the pictures on the
  left-hand-side, answer the following questions
  Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
• Explain how this photo is significant to
  Lauriers statement The twentieth century
  belongs to Canada.
• Tophttp//www.assumption.edu/users/McClymer/his39
  4/FlapoverFlappers.html
• Middlehttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Un
  ited_States_history_(1900-1929)
• Bottomhttp//www.wtv-zone.com/honi4me/MoreCreatio
  ns3/BlackBottom.html