Why were times booming?
• Economic
prosperity after the
war
–People moving into
cities for work (factories,
finance (banks),
transportation (bus drivers
etc.)
–Wages going UP!
–People buying on
CREDIT for the first time
Why were times booming?
• New technological developments:
The Car!
The Telephone!
The Radio!
Plus toasters…
…washing
machines…
…vacuum
cleaners…
In Canada…
• We were listening to American programs on
the radio
• Rural people less isolated (radios,
telephones)
• Rural people could get goods to urban
markets (cheap cars/trucks)
• Life was easier, things got done faster,
which all equalled:
More Leisure Time
and
More Money
$$$$$$$$$$$
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Sports in Canada
• Lionel Conacher won
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A Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens
Played Triple A baseball in Toronto
Was a premiere lacrosse player, AND
Was instrumental in a Toronto Argonaut Grey Cup win
in 1921!!
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• The Edmonton “Grads” won the world
championship in women’s basketball for 17
years straight!!
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• Tom Longboat, an
Aboriginal runner,
won the Boston
Marathon in 1907
• In the 1920s he was
unable to achieve his
former running
success
• Victim of racism
throughout his life
Music
• Jazz, jazz, jazz
• Bix Beiderbecke
and his Gang
Arts in Canada
• The Group of Seven
– Remember Frederick
Varley from WWI?
– Bold, beautiful and totally
non-realistic
– Critics hated it for the
most part
– About Canadian
landscape for first time
Movies
• For the first time
Canadians had time
and $$ to go to
movies!
• And, for the first
time, there WERE
movies!!
Movies
• Canada’s
Sweetheart:
• Mary Pickford was
one of most famous
Canadian movie
actresses – in the
silent movies – won
an Academy award
Fads
• Like goldfish
swallowing
• Marathon dance
contents, and…
• Flagpole sitting
And Fashion
Women
• bobbed hair
• Shorter skirts
• “Skinny” dresses,
feathers, scarves
• Women smoked!
Innovations and Technology
• Air Travel
– After war, fighter
pilots wanted to
keep flying!
– Stunt pilots
– Bush pilots
– Post Office pilots
for remote regions
– 1927 – first
passenger services
Innovations and Technology
• Discovery of Insulin
– Prior to 1920s, diabetes
meant blindness, limb
amputations, death
– 1920 – 22: Dr.
Frederick Banting and
assistant Charles Best
developed insulin
serum
– used laboratory dogs
Innovations and Technology
• Nobel Prize, Medicine
– Banting co-winner of
the Nobel Prize for
discovery of insulin
– greatly impacted the
treatment of diabetes
around world