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Throughout the Years: Examining Canadian Unity

By Rudy Arbatti, David Liu, Pharez Tayo-Ajimoko, and Jojo Hanna

1945

1982

1942

April 9-12, 1917

Canadian Women and the War

1914

Present Day

1944

1960s

July 21, 1988

Purpose:

We are going to examine the state of unity in Canada from the First World War era all the way to the present day.

Introduction

What is Canadian Unity?

We define Canadian Unity as any process or event that has brought together people, regardless of their ethnicity, language, or province of residence.

Canadian Unity?

Unity Put to the Test

Recognizing that unity in Canada has been put to the test and has faced challenges and progress alike, we want to show the evolution of Canadian unity from a period of over a hundred years ago.

Ups and Downs

The Birth of a Nation

On April 12th, 1917, the day when an all Canadian army captured Vimy Ridge, a strategically located escarpment in Northern France which allowed the Germans to maintain a strong presence in the region.

Vimy Ridge

What Happened?

This was the first time all Four Canadian Battalions were fighting, united against the enemy, and successfully took the ridge from the Germans, albeit at a heavy cost, over 10,600 casualties.

What Happened?

Why is it Important?

  • Made Canada stand out from other British troops.
  • Earned Canadians a reputation for being strong and perseverant force
  • Showed what Canadians could do when united.

Why Important?

How Did it Affect Unity?

This new found sense of pride and unity among Canadians would later transform into the need for a sovereign Canada, independent from Britain.

How Did it Affect Unity?

The Conscription Question

Conscription was originally proposed by then PM Borden to recruit more men to send overseas to fight the war in Europe, became a highly polarizing issue that would test the unity of Canadians.

The Conscription Crisis, 1917

What Happened?

  • English Canadians, family of soldiers, and new immigrants from Britain supporting the action.
  • French-Canadians, farmers, and unionized workers opposing it.
  • Military Service Act made conscription an official policy.

What Happened?

Why is it Important?

  • Outrage in Quebec over conscription.
  • Large protests and riots ensued, resulting in many deaths and injuries.
  • French-Canadians, who hated the idea of fighting for Britain overseas, felt alienated from the rest of Canada.

Why Important?

How Did it Effect Unity?

  • Quebecois felt they were unfairly targeted as a result of conscription.
  • Lead to the rise of Quebec nationalism
  • Goal to establish an independent Quebec

How Did it Impact Unity?

Internment of Japanese-Canadians

In early 1942, the Canadian government detained and dispossessed the vast majority of people of Japanese descent living in British Columbia because on 7 December 1941, when Japan attacked both Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong, Canadian troops were stationed at these locations. With these shocking events, fear of a Japanese invasion was sparked and the flames were fanned by a sensationalist press.

Internment of Japanese-Canadians

What Happened?

Over 90 percent of Japanese Canadians. Some 21,000 people were uprooted during the war, the majority being Canadian citizens by birth. Even after the war ended PM Mackenzie King continued to bow to the most strident demands of the politicians and the citizens he represented. He offered Japanese Canadians two options: move to Japan or disperse to provinces east of the Rocky Mountains. He never expressed any regrets for the treatment of Japanese Canadians, during or after the war.

What Happened?

Significance

The Internment of Japanese Canadians demonstrated the racism and distrust directed towards minorities at that time, and the suffering of innocent people for the sole purpose of maintaining "national security." Overall, a damaging event to the unity of all Canadians.

Significance

The Second World War

World War Two was a time when there were many advances in warfare, technologny and human living. One of the main reasons Canadain unity grew in this time was becasue of Consription. Although it was frowned upon it was handled significantly better than World War One.

Conscription in World War 2

How Conscription Affected The War

Conscription

  • Handled better than in WW1, where during this time the use of Conscription was held back for 2 years prior to its mention by PM Mackenzie-King. Evidently while WW2 was being fought in Europe, more Canadian lives were lost due to an insufficient amount of men on ground, this ultimately led to Conscription being put in place.
  • But unlike WW1, Overseas Services was an absolute must and Conscription was passed only when majority of Canada agreed.
  • All successful major battles which included the Canadian army, brought Canadians on the home-front closer together as well as on the Battlefront, such as the The Battle of the Atlantic, D-Day, and The Italian Campaign.

CANADIAN WOMEN

Canadian Women and the War

WHAT ROLES DID WOMEN PLAY?

Women started participating in the war

Military-aged men were recruited

Women nursed injured men

Women helped manufacture war devices for WW1 and WW2

What Roles Did Women Play?

French and English armies needed women's help during the

17th,

18th &

19th centuries

Sewing, Cooking, Tending to the injured and making medicine were all things women were needed for

Women had special uniforms and received training in case of emergencies

By the 20th century things changed →

HOW DID THE WAR AFFECT WOMEN?

How Did the War Affect Women?

Women performed tasks that men had always traditionally done previously

Contributed heavily on the homefront and maintained society while men were in fighting in Europe

BY 1941, THERE WERE MORE THAN 50,000 WOMEN HELPING IN THE ARMY AND NAVY SERVICES -

BUT THEY WERE STILL NOT GRANTED FULL ACCESS OR RIGHTS

Women's role in running factories, businesses helped push Canada out of the Great Depression.

Women would pave the way for equality and result in the birth of feminism.

THE HIPPIES

Hippies

in

Canada

WHO WERE THEY?

The term “Hippies” originates from the 1960s, where it was used to describe young youths from New York and San Fransisco during the 50s and 60s.

Who Were They?

Wore weird clothing, had long hair, wore shirts with bizarre slogans.

Born after the war, part of the Baby-Boomer Generation

Hippy Peace Symbol

Becoming influential Canada-wide, they started to come up with their own music genre.

Popularized the use of illegal drugs, something which earned them disapproval.

How Did they Impact Canadian Society?

How Did They Impact Canadian Society?

Championed causes such as equal rights for women, minorities, and queer people.

Were looked down upon by the rest of mainstream Canadian society.

People thought they were a bad influence on young children and teens.

Clashed with others who wanted to preserve things as it was. Bad for unity.

TWO Institutions

ONE Nation

One of the most significant events in Canadian history is the affirmation for Indigenous People to self government in the constitution act in 1982.

Indigenous Self-Government

Charlottetown Accord

What Is It?

What Is It?

Indigenous self-government is the formal structure through which Indigenous communities control the administration of their people, land, resources and related programs and policies, through agreements with ​federal and provincial governments.

Significance

Significance

This action cater Indigenous people’s sense of independence as well as eliminated the majority of the conflicts between aboriginal people and Canadian government.

Not until the establishment of Charlottetown Accord which substantially altered the status of Aboriginal groups in Canadian political environment. Under the Accord, Aboriginal right to self-government would have been enshrined in the Canadian Constitution.

How Did it Effect Unity?

How Did it Effect Unity?

The resentful relationship was gradually vanishing from the society, and also manifest Canadians' respectful attitude towards minority groups. It was a big step to move towards a more united country.

Immigration Trend

Three million immigrants came to Canada during 1980 to 1990. In 2001, 43.1 percent of immigrants to Canada settled in Toronto, 18 percent settled in Vancouver, and 12 percent settled in Montreal.

Multiculturalism Act

The federal government further recognized the importance of Canada’s multiculturalism and Citizenship which lead to the enactment of Bill C-93 known as Multiculturalism Act aimed to reinforce the racial and cultural equality.

Establishment of Multiculturalism Act

Apology to Japanese Canadians

Under the influence of this policy, in the same year, 1988, the Canadian government apologized to Japanese Canadian for its action about racism and internment towards Japanese during the second world war. And as a compensation, it agreed to pay those people who were affected by the policy, $21000 each.

Apology to Jewish people

Coincidentally, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood in Parliament, November 2018, apologized for Canada’s decision to turn away the St. Louis full of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany on the eve of the Holocaust 79 years ago.

Implementation of the Multiculturalism policy strikingly strengthen the national unity.

Conclusion

Conclusion

  • Maintaining a unified, free Canada has been no easy thing to do!
  • However, we would say that the state of Canada's unity has come a long way from what it was at the beginning of the 20th century.
  • Canadian values of inclusion, democracy, and diversity act as guiding principles that ensure our rights are upheld
  • Despite our province or territory of residence, language, or ethnicity, we all feel that we part of one great, unified Canada!

THANK YOU LADIES

&

GENTS" !

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