1920-1930

Relief camps: created for thousands of single homeless men who roamed the country in search of work and a place to live, without employment the government was scared of an uprising so they sent the camps up

Significance: large scale response to unemployment during the Depression, low pay and bad conditions led to widespread dissatisfaction and political activism, causing the Trek 

Union Nationale: a conservative political party in Quebec, led by Maurice Duplessis. It promoted French-Canadian nationalism, Catholic values, and provincial rights, thought the english men didn’t let them run the province, solution: separate themself from Canada, audience: citizens of Québec 

Residential schools: Opened 1831 and last school shut down in 1996

First Nations: not classified as “people” under law, suffered bad living conditions, sacred ceremonies were banned, Aboriginal Title (Land Claim) their land can be taken

Apology: Decades after Canadian government refused to admit it had a impact on Indigenous peoples/  June 11 2008, house of commons gathered in a solemn ceremony to publicly apologize for the involvement in the school’s and the impact it had on Indigenous peoples 

Prime minister Stephen Harper gave the apology, Pope Francis

Prohibition: Banning the production, import and transportation of alcohol and liquor across the country.

Bootlegger: those who made/sold alcohol

Rocco Perri, famous Canadian bootlegger: shipped his illegal alcohol into the U.S. overland, but also owned a boat for crossing Lake Ontario.

Significance: increase in organized crime, ban hurt the alcohol industry and related sectors, impacting jobs and provincial revenue, shaped modern liquor laws and more moderate public attitudes toward drinking

Technology: 1924 - first dial phone

1927- the one-piece headset

1930- baby Pabulum was developed to fight malnutrition among infants 

1922-Insulin was invented by Frederick Banting (won Nobel Prize for medicine) A medication to treat diabetics