WWI
The year World War I broke out, automatically pulling Canada into war because Britain controlled foreign policy.
What is 1914?
The legal term for a country's right and freedom to govern itself and make its own decisions.
What is autonomy?
The group of five Alberta female activists who fought for women's legal rights to sit in government.
Who are the Famous Five?
The legal right to vote in political elections.
What is suffrage?
The official date Canada independently declared war on Germany in 1939.
What is September 10, 1939?
The name of the overseas military unit formed by Canadian volunteers during World War I.
What is the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)?
A nation's strategies, relationships, and official agreements with other countries around the world.
What is foreign policy?
The upper house of Canada's Parliament whose members are appointed, which women were barred from joining before 1929.
What is the Senate?
The act of taking away a person's or group's legal right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?
The Prime Minister who led Canada into World War II and waited one week before declaring war.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
The April 1917 battle where all four Canadian divisions fought together for the first time, capturing a strategic ridge in France.
What is Vimy Ridge?
The 1926 declaration stating that Canada and Britain were equal in political status within the British Empire.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
The landmark 1929 legal case that ruled women were legally recognized as qualified human beings under the law.
What is the Persons Case?
The year many Canadian women officially gained the federal right to vote during World War I.
What is 1918?
The primary political reason Mackenzie King waited seven days after Britain declared war before holding a vote in Parliament.
What is to prove Canada was an independent, sovereign nation making its own choice?
The Canadian Prime Minister who demanded an independent seat for Canada at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
Who is Robert Borden?
The 1931 British law that officially granted Canada full legal control over its foreign policy.
What is the Statute of Westminster?
The highest British court of appeal that overturned the Canadian Supreme Court and ruled in favor of women in 1929.
What is the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council?
The first Canadian province where women won the right to vote in 1916 after campaigning by activists like Nellie McClung.
What is Manitoba?
A formal written request signed by citizens to demand legal or political change from government leaders.
What is a petition?
A self-governing nation within the British Empire, which described Canada's political status in the early 20th century.
What is a Dominion?
The 1923 commercial agreement where Canada insisted on signing an international treaty with the US without a British official present.
What is the Halibut Treaty?
The constitutional doctrine established in 1929 stating that laws must grow and adapt over time as society changes.
What is the "Living Tree" doctrine?
The year Status First Nations citizens finally gained the federal vote without having to give up their Treaty status.
What is 1960?
The major promise Prime Minister Mackenzie King made to Quebec citizens in September 1939 to win their support for declaring war.
What is pledging that no conscription for overseas service would be introduced?