Chapter 2-dates

Election of Laurier's Liberal government

Election of Laurier's Liberal government

1896

Boer War

1899-1902

First movie theater in Montreal

1906

Opening of Abitibi region to colonize

1910

The First world war

1914-1918

Women given the right to vote in Canada

1918

Stock market crash

1929

Statute of Webminster

1931

The first residential school in Quebec

1934

Founding of the Bank of Canada

1935

Creation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

1936

Women given right to vote in Quebec

1940

The second world war

1939-1945

The conscription plebiscite

1942

Quebec conferences

1943-1944

Normandy Landing

1944

Adoption of the Act Respecting Compulsory School Attendance

1943

The creation of the Canadian navy

1910

Creation of Alberta and Saskatchewan

1905

"Laurier-Greenway Compromise"- allowed instruction in French in Manitoba with 10 or more children in the classroom

1897

Annexation of the District of Ungave to Quebec

1912

The election of the Union Nationale- Maurice Duplessis

1936-1939; 1944-1959

The election of liberal party- Godbout government

1939-1944