The Group of Seven
Formed in 1920, this collective of Canadian landscape painters aimed to break away from traditional European styles and create a distinctively Canadian art form inspired by the rugged wilderness.
What is the Group of Seven?
In 1921–1922, insulin was discovered at this Canadian educational institution, revolutionizing the treatment of diabetes worldwide.
What is the University of Toronto
Cannabis was added to Canada’s schedule of prohibited drugs in 1923 as an amendment to this federal act regulating narcotics.
What is the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act?
In September 1922, this British Prime Minister sent a telegram requesting military support from Commonwealth Dominions to face Turkish nationalist forces.
Who is David Lloyd George?
The beloved literary character Winnie the Pooh was named after a real orphaned black bear cub originally named "Winnipeg," after this Manitoba capital.
What is Winnipeg?
The official debut exhibition of the Group of Seven was held in May 1920 at this prominent Toronto gallery (now known as the AGO).
The Art Gallery of Toronto (or Art Gallery of Ontario)?
These two young researchers—an orthopedic surgeon and a medical student—performed the initial experiments on dogs in J.J.R. Macleod’s laboratory.
Who are Frederick Banting and Charles Best?
Written under the pen name "Janey Canuck," this 1922 book by magistrate Emily Murphy stirred moral panic about narcotics, including early anti-marijuana sentiment.
What is The Black Candle?
This Canadian Prime Minister famously declined to automatically send troops, asserting that only Canada's Parliament could decide to enter foreign conflicts.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
This Canadian veterinary officer purchased the bear cub for $20 in Ontario while en route to Europe during World War I.
Who is Harry Colebourn?
Though never an official member due to his mysterious drowning in Algonquin Park in 1917, this iconic painter was a key catalyst for the Group's formation.
Tom Thomson
Recognizing that their crude extracts were too impure for human trial, the research team brought in this biochemist to refine and purify the insulin extract.
Who is James Collip
Historians note that Parliament passed the 1923 ban on cannabis with virtually no debate or input from this major medical association
What is the Canadian Medical Association (CMA)?
The Chanak crisis took place in a neutral zone near Chanak (Çanakkale), along this strategic Turkish strait connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara.
What are the Dardanelles?
Before heading to the front line in France, Captain Colebourn left Winnipeg in the care of this famous European institution
What is the London Zoo?
Famous for works like The Red Maple and Algoma November, this co-founding member traveled across Canada by boxcar and served as an official war artist in WWI.
A.Y. Jackson
In 1923, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Frederick Banting and this laboratory director, causing immediate friction over who deserved credit.
Who is John Macleod?
Illustrating that cannabis was virtually non-existent as a public issue in 1923, Canada’s first recorded seizure of marijuana cigarettes occurred in this year—nearly a decade later.
What is 1932?
King’s independent stance during the Chanak Affair led directly to Canada signing this 1923 treaty with the US regarding North Pacific fishing rights, without British co-signature.
What is the Halibut Treaty?
This English author frequently visited the London Zoo with his son Christopher Robin, inspiring him to write the Winnie-the-Pooh books in the late 1920s.
Who is A.A. Milne?
Recognized as the spiritual leader of the group, this Toronto-born artist developed an increasingly abstract style depicting Lake Superior, the Rockies, and the High Arctic.
Who is Lawren Harris
Believing that live-saving medical discoveries should belong to the public, Banting and his co-inventors sold the patent for insulin to the University of Toronto for this token sum.
What is $1.00 (One Dollar)
This Federal Minister of Health quietly introduced the 1923 bill that added "Cannabis Indica" to the banned schedule alongside opium and cocaine.
Who is Henri-Sévérin Béland?
The Chanak Affair is regarded as a milestone because it marked the first time Canada independently determined its own stance in this domain of governance.
What is foreign policy (or international diplomacy)?
Before becoming a permanent resident at the London Zoo, Winnie served as the official live mascot for this Canadian cavalry regiment.
What is the Fort Garry Horse?