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Historical Time Line Essay, Research Paper

Historical Time Line

1910

- Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier?s Naval Bill to create a small Canadian

Navy is passed.

- The Montreal Canadians play their first hockey game.

- The first man-made fibre, rayon, is introduced in the North American

market.

- Author Stephen Leacock publishes Literary Lapses.

- Toronto had 376, 588 citizens.

1911

- Robert Borden becomes Canada?s new PM.

- Canada?s population is 7,204,838.

1912

- Ontario government restricts the use of French in Ontario schools.

- The Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec boundaries now extend to the

Hudson Bay.

- China becomes a republic.

- The SSTitanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland.

- Tom Longboat sets a world record for the 15-mile run.

- The first Calgary Stampede is held.

- Professional hockey is played in Vancouver on artificial ice for the first

time in Canada.

- Woodrow Wilson becomes the United States president.

1913

- Over 400,000 immigrants arrive in Canada, an all-time high.

- Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

1914

- Archduke Ferdinand is killed at Sarajevo.

- Great Britain declares war on Germany, Canada is also at war. A short

war is expected.

- During the war, woman took over traditional ?men?s? jobs.

- The Montreal Daily News begins publication.

- Casa Loma, Henry Pellatt?s mansion, is completed in Toronto.

1915

- Germany sinks the Lusitania.

- Machine guns are mounted on airplanes for use in warfare.

- The Edmonton Grads, a ladies basketball team, is organized.

- John McCrae publishes ?In Flanders Fields?

- At the battle of Ypres, chlorine gas is first used by the Germans.

1916

- Woman can vote in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

- Emily Murphy becomes the first female police magistrate in the British

Empire.

- British tanks are used first during the Battle

- A Provincial Police force is formed in Alberta.

- The Parliament buildings in Ottawa are destroyed by fire.

- The Montreal Canadians win their first Stanley Cup.

- The tragic Battle of Somme occurs, thousands of lives were lost.

1917

- Federal Income tax is introduced to help with the war.

- Victory Bonds raise $100 million.

- The Canadian Corps, attacking as a unit for the first time, take Vimy

Ridge.

- The Battle of Passchendalle.

- Tom Thomas, Canadian artist, drowns in Ontario.

- The United States enters the war.

1918

- All woman over 21 can now vote in Canada.

- The famous German Ace, the Red Baron, is shot down my Canadian

Roy Brown.

-Worldwide influenza epidemic kills many.

-World War I is over on November 11. Over 600 000 Canadian men and

woman had joined the war, over 60 000 Canadians died.

- The war?s top Canadian ace is Billy Bishop.

1919

-Wilfred Laurier dies, Mackenzie King become the new Liberal leader.

-Western unionist form the ?One Big Union.?

- Bloody Saturday was on May 15, the beginning of the Winnipeg General

Strike.

- Canada signs the Treaty of Versailles on her own. Germans have to pay

billions in compensation for destruction.

- The Group of Seven is created

- The Grand Trunk Railway is nationalized.

- The first air crossing of the Atlantic.

- Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary become independent.

- Conservative leader Robert Borden retires, replaced by Arthur Meighen.

The Prosperous 1920?s

- The Canadian Air Force is authorized.

- The National Progressive Party is formed.

- Canada participates in League of Nations.

- Canada is changed by the war, it is more idenpendant and more urban.

- The Liberals win federal election. King forms minority government.

- The stock market is very popular, people invest their life savings.

- Dancing and cars are becoming very popular.

-Agnes MacPhail is Canada?s first woman M.P.

- Woman are allowed to run for election to Parliament.

- The minor depression from after the war is over in 1922. Consumers are

buying modern products.

- Rudulph Valenteno and Mary Pickford are stars of the 1920?s.

- The first radio station in Ontario, CKOC in Hamilton, begins in 1922.

- In the 1928 Olympics, Ethel Catherwood wins a gold medal in high-jump

for Canada.

- ?Black Tuesday?, the day of the stock market crash was on October 29,

1929. Many people lost their life savings because of this.

1930?s: The Depression

- Food was scarce during the depression, there wasn?t much beef or sugar.

- Soup kitchens and applying for relief, although humiliating, become

necessary.

- In Western Canada, farming wasn?t doing well because of the drought

and the thousands of grasshoppers

- Songs in the 30?s, such as, Stardust and Happy Days are Here Again,

tried to lift people spirits.

- On May 28, 1934, the identical babies know as the Dionne Quintuplets

are born in Northern Ontario.

- Bennett loses the 1935 election, Mackenzie King wins.

- In 1936, a mine in Canada collapses, 3 men were trapped for 10 days.

- On September 10, 1939, Canada is at war. Germany, led by Adolf

Hitler, started off WWII by invading Poland.

World War II 1939-1945

- It was almost impossible to buy certain foods during WWii.

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