Canada During WWI
A way of spreading ideas or information to achieve a specific goal
What is propaganda?
During WWI, many women took jobs here to fill in for men who were fighting overseas.
This technology became a common feature of the home that resulted in new appliances and comforts.
What is electricity?
Who was William Lyon Mackenzie King?
Law that gave the federal government complete control over the lives of Indigenous people.
What was the Indian Act?
There was lots of fear of this group of people being spies or not loyal to the Canadian war effort.
Who are enemy aliens?
The most prominent role that Canadian women played at the front in Europe.
Who are nurses?
Women’s group that advocated for prohibition and aligned itself with the suffrage movement to help give women more political power.
What was the Women’s Christian Temperance Union?
The Governor General of Canada who on several occasions, disagreed with the prime minister on Canada's political issues.
Who was Lord Byng?
To educate and assimilate Indigenous children into Christian, Euro-Canadian cultural norms.
What was the goal of the residential school system?
Hospital ship that was full of Canadian Nursing Sisters when it was torpedoed; 14 nurses died
What was the Llandovery Castle?
One of the leading supporters of women's right to vote; became a member of the Alberta Legislature in 1921.
Who was Nellie McClung?
Secret bars opened in cellars and back rooms to sell illegal alcohol.
What were speakeasies?
Canada signed its first international treaty without the British.
What was the Halibut Treaty?
Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs who "want[ed] to get rid of the Indian problem".
Who was Duncan Campbell Scott?
Many of WWI's top snipers were part of this minority group.
Who are Indigenous Canadians?
These women rejected conventional feminine behaviour: adopted "masculine" fashion, drank, smoke, and were independent.
Who were flappers?
Created because the federal government was concerned about the growing influence of American radio broadcasting on Canada.
What is the CBC?
Formally applied the recommendations of the Balfour Report into law; Canada was now completely autonomous and equal in status to Britain.
What was the Statute of Westminster?
Study in 1907 that found extremely high rates of death from TB in the schools, and that this was done intentionally.
What was The Bryce Report?
Almost 30,000 workers walked out of their jobs to protest poor working conditions and low pay.
What was The Winnipeg General Strike?
A landmark constitutional case in Canada where the Imperial Privy Council decided that women were eligible to sit in the Senate of Canada.
What was The Persons Case?
A musical style developed by Black Americans in New Orleans that was popular amongst young people.
What is jazz?
Scandal caused PM to request a new election; but the Governor General refused. Resulted in new government collapsing, old PM getting re-elected, and new restrictions being placed on the GG.
What was the King-Byng Affair?
The RS system is considered to be a form of _____. This has resulted in many Indigenous families being affected by _____.
What is cultural genocide and intergenerational trauma?