1920s & 1930s Timeline

1920s & 30s Timeline

By: LeAnn Davis

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Golden Age of Sports

Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister

The Stock-Market Crash of 1929

Mackenzie King was the longest-serving Prime Minister of Canada. First elected in 1921, won elections in 1925,1926,1935,1940 and 1945. Mackenzie King relied on the advice of his lieutenants of the provinces to tell what Canadians wanted or did not want. Since King could not speak French he relied on the advice from Ernest Lapointe to help retain support in Quebec. To the public Mackenzie King was seen as a cautious life-long bachelor who was devoted to his mother. His diary entries, later revealed to the public thirty years after his death, suggested that he lived a very private life. He appeared to be very invovled in mysticism, attended seances, consuted fortune-tellers, and even used a cyrstal ball to contact the dead.

The 1920s and early 1930s had been called the "Golden Age of Sports" for women. There were many youth groups, including the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) that encouraged organized physical activities and games for young women. The Canadian womens basketball team (The Edmonton Grads) were the most successful team in competitive basketball. They won 4 olympic gold medals. Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld was the only women to be named to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame as an all-around athlete. Rosenfeld set records in discus throwing and long jump, and was also a star athlete in tennis and hockey. In the later 1930s women were pushed back into more traditional roles.

In the 1920s the stock-market became a "new frontier for money-making". It was a faster way for making money. The more money people invested in stocks, the greater the market value of stocks increased. On Tuesday October 29,1929 also know as "Black Tuesday" put a halt in the economy. The value disappeared from the overinflated stocks. Investors were unable to sell their stocks for a portion of what they paid for them. Which made it hard for them to make money and in return made it harder for the to repay loans they took to invest in the stocks. People were unable to buy goods because of their debts to the bank d because of low income, businesses cut back or shut down, more people lost their jobs. The stock-market crash started a declination in the Canadian economy. Canada had entered the Great Depression.

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1935

Bennet's New Deal

The Persons Case

Agnes MacPhail

In the mid-1930s, at the height og the Great Depression, Prime Minister R.B. Bennett's sought to reverse the movement running against his conservative Party. On January 2, 1935 he began a series of live radiospeeches outlining a new deal for Canada. "New Deal" promised a maximum workweek, minimum wage, to improve working conditions, unemployement insurance, health and accident insurance. Many of Bennets promises were passed by Parliment but were later shut down by the courts.

Women were finally recognized as "persons", which was a big milestone for Canadian women in 1929. Many people argued that women did not qualify to become senators and other laws concerning the government. Five women, 'Famous Five', which included Emily Murphy, Irene Parbly, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Edwards, and Louise McKinney succeeded in having women defined as "persons" in Section 24 of the British North America Act, and therby stated that they were eligible for appointment to the Senate. This victory symbolized the right of women to participate in all aspects of life, to "dream big", and realize their potential in society.

Anges Campbell MacPhail, was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, and one of the first two womwn elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. She was a peace supporter and spoke in favour of equal rights for women, equal pay, financial support for deserted wives, divorce, day care, and income tax deductions for working wives. Agnes MacPhail simple advice was: "A woman's place is any place she wants to be." Anges MacPhail fought for the absolute equality of every woman.