1920s and 1930s Websites
FAMOUS CANADIANS
Foster Hewitt
Nellie McClung
Emily Murphy
Percy Williams
Fanny Rosenfeld
Samuel Bronfman
Lionel Conacher
Edmonton Grads
Group of Seven
Emily Carr
Armand Bombardier Carine Wilson
Stephen Leacock
Herbert Samuel Holt
Mary Pickford
Rocco Perri
Ethel Catherwood
Ed Rogers
Frederick Banting
T.C. Douglas
Mackenzie King
Agnes Macphail
Lucy M. Montgomery Dionne Quints
Elsie MacGill
Tom Longboat
J.S. Woodsworth
Guy Lombardo
General Sites and Overview
Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1
Many topics in Canada’s Digital Collection http://epe.lacbac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/E/Alphabet.asp
The Peopling of Canada:1891-1921
(http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/canada1891/ch7.html)
Canadian Immigration Policy Statement 1920
(http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/QuebecHistory/readings/C
anadianImmigrationPolicyStatement.html)
Famous Women (http://www.famouscanadianwomen.com/timeline/timeline19301939.htm) (http://www.famouscanadianwomen.com/timeline/timeline1920-1929.htm)
http://wayback.archiveit.org/2217/20101208160614/http://www.abheritage.ca/famous5/index.html
Famous Canadians (http://www.haltonlinks.com/cdn_entertainers.html)
Survive the Roaring Twenties Game (http://www.mccordmuseum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/18)
The Lawless Decade *American (http://www.lawlessdecade.net/ )
1920s Timeline (international)
(http://history1900s.about.com/library/time/bltime1920.htm?once=tr
ue&terms=1920%27s)
Slang of the 1920s (http://local.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm)
Inventions of the 1920s: http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/#clip521436
Music, Decor, Art and Architecture
Flapper (http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/index.html)
Art Deco Montreal (http://www.artdecomontreal.com/en/)
Artcyclopedia: Art Deco (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/art-deco.html)
Infoplease: Guy Lombardo
(http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0763074.html)
Guy Lombardo (http://www.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/lombardo.htm)
Emily Carr
(http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/EmilyCarrHomeWork/main.htm)
Emily Carr: To the Totem Forests
(http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/totems/default.htm)
Group of Seven (http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/tom_thomson/g7frm.htm)
Inventions, Technology and Medicine
Canadian Inventions
(http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2
F%2Fwww3.sympatico.ca%2Ftaniah%2FCanada%2Fthings%2F)
Hammond Museum of Radio
(http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/index.html)
The History of Automobiles (http://alts.net/ns1625/automobiles.html)
Emporis Skyscrapers: Chapman and Oxley
(http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm?id=105335)
Elsie MacGill
(http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-409-e.html)
(http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/heirloom_series/volume6/volume6.htm )
Edward William Archibald
(http://epe.lacbac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/heirloom_series/volume6/volume6.htm)
Sir Frederick Banting
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bmbant.html)
Frederick Banting
(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1923/banting-bio.html)
Edward Samuel Rogers Sr.– radio tube
http://your.rogers.com/aboutrogers/historyofrogers/virtualmuseum/milestones/page-19.html
Politics
Black History: http://www.blackhistorysociety.ca/news.php/news/30
Indian Act: http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/government-policy/the-indian-act.html
Immigrant Voices: Interwar Years
(http://www.canadianhistory.ca/iv/1914-1945/interwar/index.html)
Nellie L. McClung (http://epe.lacbac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/heirloom_series/volume6/volume6.htm)
Nellie McClung (http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0003.htm)
The “Persons” Case (http://library2.usask.ca/herstory/person.html)
Agnes Campbell MacPhail
(http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-826-e.html)
The Winnipeg General Strike
(http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol7/no4/onstrike.html)
J.S. Woodsworth (http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0031.htm)
Winnipeg General Strike
(http://history.cbc.ca/history/webdriver?MIval=EpisContent&series_id
=1&episode_id=12&chapter_id=3&page_id=2&lang=E)
Extending the Right to Vote
(http://history.cbc.ca/history/webdriver?MIval=EpisContent.html&seri
es_id=1&episode_id=12&chapter_id=3&page_id=1&lang=E)
Rise of Rural Power
(http://history.cbc.ca/history/webdriver?MIval=EpisContent&series_id
=1&episode_id=12&chapter_id=3&page_id=3&lang=E)
King of the Mob: Rocco Perri (http://robinrowland.com/king.html)
Crime and Punishment in Canada
(http://www.russianbooks.org/crime/cph7.htm)
Symbols of the Age: Flapper Fashion
The Jazz Age (http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/)
Flappers (http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/)
1920s Patterns + Images
(http://www.sensibility.com/vintageimages/1920s/)
Men’s Fashions (http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/men.html)
Flapper Fashions 1920s (http://www.fashionera.com/flapper_fashion_1920s.htm)
Mary Pickford
(http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-710-e.html)
Business
DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc.
(http://www.chryslercanada.ca/CA/03/EN/CORPORATE/1,,CA-03-ENCORPORATE-DCC-HISTORY-1920,.html)
J. Armand Bombardier
(http://www.fjab.qc.ca/en/content/jab/jab.htm)
Eaton’s Catalogue (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cmc/009002101.02-e.php)
The Roaring Twenties
(http://www.canadianbusiness.com/managing/strategy/article.jsp?con
tent=20030203_51608_51608&page=1)
Sir Herbert Samuel Holt
(http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Par
ams=A1ARTA0003821)
Rum-running on east coast:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/macleans/maritimedrug-smuggling-and-rumrunning
Sports
Tom Longboat (http://www.sicc.sk.ca/saskindian/a77nov70.htm)
Fanny “Bobbie” Rosenfeld
(http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-236-e.html)
Herstory: Ethel Catherwood and Fanny Rosenfeld
(http://library2.usask.ca/herstory/field.html)
“Big Train: Lionel Conacher”
(http://www.garywill.com/wrestling/canada/conacher.htm)
Howie Morenz: “The Stratford Streak”
(http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/3629/Morenz.html)
The Edmonton Grads
(http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-229-e.html)
Economics
Snapshot of a Decade...From an Economic Point of View
(http://www.histori.ca/minutes/woodsworth_en/1920s_snapshot.html)
Single Women
(http://www.canadianhistory.ca/iv/perspective/perspective16_4.html)
Restoring the Pre WWI Economy
(http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Restoring11.html)
The Winnipeg General Strike
(http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol7/no4/onstrike.html)
The Roaring Twenties
(http://www.canadianbusiness.com/managing/strategy/article.jsp?con
tent=20030203_51608_51608&page=1)
Sir Herbert Samuel Holt
(http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Par
ams=A1ARTA0003821)
Culture
Jazz Age Culture (http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html)
Mary Pickford
(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681933/bio)
Mary Pickford
(http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/002026-710-e.html)
Lucy M. Montgomery (http://www.lmmontgomery.ca/node/9)
Stephen Leacock
(http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/literature/clips/3540/)
The Coloured Women’s Club of Montreal
(http://www.learnquebec.ca/en/content/curriculum/social_sciences/fe
atures/missingpages/unit6/u6toc.htm)
By K. Main
History Teacher: Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute