Time Period
1914-1930
1930-1950
Events
-Number 2 construction Battalion
-Chanak Affair
formed
-Statute of Westminster
-Conscription Crisis
-Halibut Treaty
-Vimy Ridge
-discovery of Insulin
-Ypres
-Balfour Report
-Somme
-introduction of the automobile
Passchendaele
-Statute of Westminster
-Canada’s Hundred days
-Chinese Immigration Act (1923):
-Halifax Explosion
Humiliation Day
-Canada signs Treaty of Versailles -Bush pilots supply isolated
-Introduction of income tax
communities
-War Measures Act
-TB vaccine introduced (1938)
-Victory Bonds
-Social Credit Movement
-Women and the War effort
-Union Nationale
-Creation of CBC
-Co-operative Commonwealth
-Creation of National Film board
Federation
-Stock market Crash
-Flappers
-boys under 16 banned from
-Bluenose wins again
working in Novas Scotia mines
-Famous Five and the person’s
(1923)
case
-relief Camps
-prohibition
-On-To-Ottawa trek
-the New Deal
-Winnipeg General Strike
-five cent speech
-the Wheat market
-Old Age Pension scheme set up
(1927)
-Canadian Congress of Labour
-Lend Lease Act
(1939)
-CBC news service introduced
-Conscription Crisis 1944
-penicillin first used
-Battle of Ortona
-Women in the work force
-Canadians at Dieppe
-rationing
-Battle of the Atlantic
-Japanese Internment
-Canadians at D-Day
-Wage and Price controls
-Canadians and the Liberation of
-Return of Canadian soldiers
the Netherlands
-National resources
-Canadians and the Sicily
Mobilization Act
campaign
-Unemployment Insurance Act
-British Commonwealth Air
(1941)
Training Programme
-Family Allowances Act (1944)
-Canada’s Response to Holocaust
-Women in the Military
-Canada’s declaration of War
-St Roch passes through the
-Canadians and the Air War
Northwest Passage
-V.E. Day
Prime Ministers
Robert Borden (19111920)
Arthur Meighen (19201921) & (1926)
William Lyon
Mackenzie-King (19211926) & (1926-1930)
Political Person
Billy Bishop
Arthur Currie
John McRae
Nellie McClung
Agnes MacPhail
Roy Brown
Henri Bourassa
Lord Byng
Sam Hughes
J.S. Woodsworth
Emily Murphy
Non-Political Person
Norman Bethune
Dionne Quintuplets
Fredrick Banting
Group of Seven
Alexander Graham Bell
Armand Bombardier
Mabel May
Grey Owl
Mary Pickford
Ted Rogers Sr.
RB Bennett (19301935)
Mackenzie-King
(1935-1948)
Thomas George Price
C.D. Howe
Joey Smallwood
Tommy Douglas
Carine Wilson
William Aberhart
Johnny Canuck
Oscar Peterson
Ellen Louks Fairclough
was the first female
member of the Canadian
Cabinet.
1950-present
-Canada’s role in the formation of
the United Nations
-Canada and the Suez Crisis
-Canada and the Cuban Missile
Crisis
-NORAD
-NATO
-CBC television service launched
-New flag
-Korean War
-Peacekeeping
-Expo ‘67
-Charles de Gaulle at Expo
-Canada launches Alouette I
(1962), becoming the 3rd nation in
space
-Bilingualism and biculturalism
-Massey Commission and
Canadian culture (1951)
-Indian Act amended (1951)
-all First Nations people gain the
right to vote in federal elections
(1960)
-Official Languages Act
-UN operation in Afghanistan
-October Crisis
1980 referendum
-1995 referendum
Meech lake Accord
Charlottetown Accord
-NAFTA
-creation of CRTC(1976)
-Native treaty rights
-National anthem
-1972 Summit Series
-Creation of Nunavut
-The Report of the Royal
Commission on Aboriginal
Peoples (1996)
-Charter of Rights and Freedoms
(1982)
-NAFTA
-National Energy policy
1946 48,000 war brides and their
22,000 children arrive in Canada
-St. Lawrence Seaway Agreement
-Drafting declaration of Human
Rights
-Chinese Immigration Act
Repealed (1947)
-Canada’s immigration policy
-The Avro Arrow
-Baby Boom
-Davis Inlet
-Residential Schooling
-introduction of TV
-Auto Pact
-Ontario Human Right’s Code
(1962)
-Canadian Citizen Act (1947)
-Trans-Canada highway opens
(1962)
-Newfoundland enters
Confederation
-Canadian Labour Congress
formed (1956)
- Saskatchewan introduces
medicare (1962)
-The Auto Pact
-repatriation of the constitution
Canada accepts the first
Vietnamese “Boat People”
refugees (1975)
-Canadian Human Rights Act
(1977)
-Foreign
-Investment Review Agency
-Land Mine Treaty
-Kyoto Protocol (2003)
-Child Labour
Royal Commission on the Status
of Women
-Oka Crisis
-Just Society
-Mulroney and CanadianAmerican relations
Louis Stephen StLaurent
John George
Diefenbaker
Lester Bowles Pearson
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Joseph (Joe) Clark
John Napier Turner
Brian Mulroney
Kim Campbell
Jean Chrétien
Paul Edgar Philippe
Martin
Stephen Joseph Harper
Rene Levesque
Elijah Harper
-Igor Gouzenko
-Louis Arbor and the
world court
-Joey Smallwood
Canada’s last Father
of Confederation
-Chief Dan George
-Vincent Massey
-Georges-Henri
Levesque
Adrienne Clarkson
Jean Lesage
Jack McClelland
-Dr Jack Hopps codeveloper of pace maker
(1950)
-K C Irving and his
economic dynasty
George and Pauline
Vanier
-Marshall McLuhan
-Oscar Peterson
-Terry Fox and the
marathon of hope
-Marc Garneau the first
Canadian in space
-Jeanne Sauve Canada’s
first female Governor
General (1983)
-Ted Rogers and his
media empire
-Eaton’s department store goes
bankrupt (1999)
-Juno Awards
-Bill 101
-Native land claims