Canada in 1920's- photo essay
8.3.1 Analyse the impact of changing technology and
socio-economic conditions on differing prosperities and lifestyles
in Canada in the 1920s.
Outcome
Create a 20 slide photo essay on Canada in the 1920’s, using
powerpoint. Keep your text brief and in your own words.
Focus on photos and images that speak for themselves!
Slide 1 Title slide- Canada in 1920's, 1 picture
1-3 pictures
1 interesting fact- (jot note or 1 sentence maximum) for each of these topics:
Slide 2. Prohibition, speakeasies, rum running
Slide 3Inventions, electricity, technology, telephones
Slide 4 Fashion, art
Slide 5 Entertainment, movies, radio, games, celebrities
Slide 6. Sports- teams, olympics, sports played by ordinary
people
Slide 7 Transportation- trains, automobiles, horses, walking
Slide 8 Rights or roles, lives of women, aboriginal people,
immigrants.
Slides 9-19 (10 slides)
1 important event in Canada for each year, and 1 picture for each year:
1920, 1921, 1922,1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927,1928, 1929
Slide 20- Sources- just for your information, not images
Resources and websites*:
Excellent overview:
http://canadachannel.ca/HCO/index.php/2._Canada_in_the_Roaring_Twenties
Another Introduction to 1920’s:
http://www.ascension.k12.nf.ca/curriculum/social/canhistory_1201/new_page_7.htm
Timeline of Events 1920-1929:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCETimelineBrowse&Params=A3PER1
Info for topics in 1920’s:
http://historyclass.tripod.com/id12.html
Women
http://famouscanadianwomen.com/timeline/timeline1920-1929.htm
trains
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/trains/021006-1000-e.html
*google images searches are fine to use, but please check the images are from Canada.