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100

Stagnant wages and increasing costs of living; Canada's post-war economy was marked by this.

Inflation

100

Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Henrietta Muir Edwards, and Irene Parlby were part of this group of women's rights advocates.

The Famous Five

100

The Northwest Mounted Police were called in to forcibly end the Winnipeg General Strike on what is now remembered as...

Bloody Saturday

100

In the 1920s this became the centre of the home as families gathered around it for news, sports, and entertainment.

Radio

100

A general strike in this city sets off a wave of labour action across the country.

Winnipeg

200

Unions would engage in negotiations with employers on behalf of workers in order to get a better deal. These negotiations are called...

Collective bargaining

200

This Depression era prime minister refused to help Canadians publicly, but privately would send cash to help Canadians with everyday costs of living.

R.B. Bennett

200

Prime Minister Bennett established these to provide room and board for unemployed men during the Depression.

Relief Camps

200

A process by which a country's population moves from the countryside to the city.

Urbanization

200

In an effort to stomp out communism, the federal government included many labour/union actions as a form of organizing and promoting violence against the government. This was called...

sedition

300

Forestry, agriculture, mining, fisheries; these all contributed to the explosion of Canada's economy during the 1920s.

Natural resources

300
Following R.B. Bennett's failure to provide relief for Canadian's during the Depression, this Liberal politician was re-elected as Canada's prime minister in 1926.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

300

Upset with the conditions of relief camps, the workers started a protest and hopped on trains to confront the prime minister.

On to Ottawa Trek

300

The primary purpose of Canada's residential schools was to absorb Indigenous people into the dominant white European culture.

Assimilation

300

A culture whose spending habits are rooted in "wants" rather than "needs."

Consumerism/consumerist

400

The day the stock market crashed

October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday"

400

This labour leader led relief camp workers in their fight against the government's ineffectiveness in dealing with the Great Depression.

Arthur "Slim" Evans

400

This was established in order to learn about and inform Canadians about what happened at residential schools and to provide a space for survivors to tell their stories.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

400

The fear of this political and social movement spread across Europe and Canada following the Russian Revolution.

Communism

400

American companies set up these factories in Canada in order to avoid paying tariffs for cross-border shipping.

Branch plants

500

Farmers in the prairies had a particularly challenging time during the Depression because of these economic and environment problems.

Less demand for Canadian agricultural products, falling prices, drought, wind storms, grasshoppers

500

This professional skateboarder overcame abuse and intergenerational trauma to become a voice for Indigenous youth in Canada.

Joe Buffalo

500

A famous bank robber who spent years in the Kingston Pen, only to become somewhat of a folk hero and voice for Canada's disenfranchised.

Red Ryan

500

Women who challenged conservative views of gender roles and expectations through fashion and lifestyle.

Flappers

500

A riot between protesters and police that ultimately spelled the end of the On to Ottawa Trek.

Regina Riot

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