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- real mccoy
- expression from this historical period. bill was an american boat builder and rum runner who never watered down his liquor
- famous five
- five woman from alberta who approached the supreme court and asked the following question: does the word person in section 24 of the BNA act include females?
- overproduction
- the industrial capacity of the US and canada had expanded beyond the ability of consumers to consume
- emily carr
- won governor generals award for first novel entitled klee wyck (laughing one)
- foster hewitt
- famous radio hockey announcer in the 20's. developed "he shoots, he scores!"
- market economy
- usually found in capitalist economies. individual producers and consumers determine the kind of goods and services produced and prices
- john meynard keynes
- british economist proposed radical solutions and govt should spend their way out of depression
- great depression
- in 1929, the stock market crashed resulting in this. many bankrupt unemployed and poverty extreme.
- staples
- basic products in canadas economy, crops timber and minerals. canadas most important exports
- the imperial conference, 1926
- it was made known that canada was in no way subordinate to great britain.
- rum runners
- american smugglers of alcohol
- king byng crisis
- first time a governor general refused a request of a prime minister
- riding the rails
- people would hitch a ride on a freigt train and look for a new job or something else to do. police didnt care as much as other things about this
- deficit financing
- govts should borrow money and spend it on employment projects and repay money later after economy got better
- on to ottawa trek
- a protest and people wantede work with wages and real jobs, stopped by rcmp when riot broke out
- pogey
- similar to modern day welfare system, but pogey did not provide sufficient support to people.
- laissez faire
- meaning let do. governments let economy do as it did, not interfered with the economy.since ww1, there has been more control over the economy
- league of nations
- founded by woodrow wilson. made to maintain peace in the world
- unemployment relief camps
- for single unemployed men who built roads or public work projects. 20 cents a day and shelter
- british commonwealth of nations
- free and equal states that had a common allegiance to britain. former colonies of britain.
- balfour report
- said that dominions were independant communities within the british empire. governor general only represented the monarch
- dionne quintuplets
- first set of quintuplets to live past a few days old in 1934
- trade unions
- a group of people that joined together in order to gain improved housing, training, and higher pay.
- bloody saturday
- in response to arresting of union leaders in 1919, many riots ensued and people got violent and hurt and riots broke out. many arrests
- speak easies
- secret places to sell forbidden alcohol
- buying on margin
- buying socks with borrowed money hoping that the stock would rise alot in a short time
- wctu
- womans christian temperance union, used their influence to convince the govt to ban the production and sale and consumption of alcohol
- red scare
- fear of communism spreading to other countries
- black tuesday
- the day the stockmarket crashed
- employment projects
- modernizing infrastructure upon which modern economies depend would make ideal projects.
- statute of westminster
- canada could make laws independant of britain and was part of the british commonwealth of nations
- boom
- extreme prosperity, usually followed by a bust
- cooperative commonwealth federation
- was renamed the new democratic party in 1961
- regina riot
- workers protesting for a real job and wages.
- collective security
- members of the league of nations bound themselves to help any member that was in trouble
- moonshine
- alcohol produced by albertans
- protectionist
- when a country does not need the worlds raw materials nearly as much other powers govt protected industries from competition of foreign goods by discouraging tariffs.
- bust
- serious turn for the worst in the economy
- chanak crisis
- first time canada refused to immediately help britain for imperial british war policies. british sent troops to turkey to prevent it from taking over a the port.
- winnipeg general strike, 1919
- many workers walked off their jobs and spread to a general strike. the whole city was affected and everything got shut down.
- bennetts new deal
- canadian version of american one, lots of taxes, work hours minimum wage, unemployment insurance and pension plans
- collective bargaining
- when an employee can bargain with an employer
- pier 21
- port of halifax.
- arbitration
- a process where quarelling parties submit their dispute to a third party for ruling
- speculation
- process where people bought on margin and then sold repayed the loan and harvested a large profit
- emily murphy
- part of famous five, became first woman judge in british empire
- agnes macphail
- first female MP. called for prison reform. founded the elizabeth fry society of canada, an organization to help woman who were improsined
- persons case
- case that resulted in woman being accepted as persons
- group of seven
- famous artists of canada. used bold strokes, heavy paint and contrast in paintings and rejected realism.