Winnipeg General Strike
One reason workers went on strike
One of: Unemployment, job instability, low wages, inflation, poor working conditions
True or False: Before the 1920s, the Kootenays had no auto shops, no car service stations, no maps, no car-friendly roads, and no traffic laws.
True
True or false: Canadian radio shows, sports teams, and artists helped to develop Canadian identity / nationalism
True
One reason the 1920s were called the Roaring 20's
One of: The economy was booming. Mechanization/industrialization/urbanization. Cultural freedom. Post-war joy. Consumerism.
An organization of workers who join together to negotiate with their employer for better pay or working conditions
Union
The factory that helped Trail, BC grow from a small town to a city
Smelter
The empire that Canada was part of before it gained autonomy
The British Empire
True or False: By the end of the 1920s, more people lived in cities than in the countryside.
True
A type of strike where many unions shut down a city, region or country.
General strike
The first town in the Kootenays to pave their roads downtown
Trail, BC
True or False: Canada's economy was closer to Britain than to the United States in the Interwar years
False! The Americans had millions more $ invested in Canada than the British after WWI
What communication broadcasting technology became popular in the Roaring 20's
Radio
The number of workers who went on strike
35,000
Nickname for when people's cars in Rossland completely flipped over on hills
Turtle tipping
The name of the first artist group who created non-British-style, settler Canadian art
Insulin
The committee of wealthy businessmen, lawyers, and politicians who organized against strikers
The Citizen's Committee of 1000
City that had the first passenger vehicle in the Kootenays
Nelson
The Statute of Westminster
One of the things that Canada exported to the United States
Raw materials. Wheat, minerals, metals, pulp, paper.