Question | Answer |
Ted Rogers | invented the battery-less radio. |
Armand Bombardier | invented the snowmobile, because his son died because the roads were blocked by snow |
Foster Hewitt | was a famous sports caster for Hockey In Canada |
Macenzie King | Liberal prime minister of Canada |
Group of 7 | group of 7 Canadian artists, who painted Canada's landscapes |
Frederick Banting | invented insulin, to treat Diabetes |
R.B. bennett | replaced the king in 1930, he was conservative |
cairine Wilson | first woman appointed to the senate |
Emily Murphy | first woman judge in the British empire, and was appointed to an Alberta court |
The famous 5 | followers of Emily Murphy, got the court to decide women and men were referred to as people |
Flappers | a young woman, who dressed outrageously |
The Charleston | a dance |
Black Tuesday | The day the stock market crashed |
The bennet buggy | named after the prime minister of the time. no one had money to buy gas so they took the engine out of their cars and got horses to pull it |
prohibition | banned the production, import and transportation of liquor across the country 1918 |
influenza epidemic | brought home by soldiers. 50000 people died, the department of health was developed. |
Chinese exclusion act | july 1st 1923, this act banned all chinese, except merchants diplomats and students from entering canada |
relief | money given to the unemployed to keep them from starving |
CRBC | canadian radio broadcasting comission. then changed to CBC. encouraged development of Canadian Programs. |
CBC | Canadian broadcasting corporation |
NFB | national film board. to promote films in Canada. |
Governor general award | the award to promote Canadian writing. |
2 causes of the great depression | -over production and over expansion
-Canadas dependence on a few primary products |
3 demands behind the winnipeg general strike were.. | 1 decent wages
2 an 8 hour day
3 the right to bargain for better working conditions |