Life In Canada In The 1920s and 1930s
Technology changed lives of Canadians in the 1920s
Americanization of Canada
Struggle of women to achieve full equality
Determination of Canadian Native peoples to preserve their culture
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1920’s the heyday of a group of Canadian painters bent on capturing the Canadian experience
(include: A.Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, and Arthur Lismer)
Group of Seven
Before the war, they were status symbols for the rich – but in the 1920s many more could
afford them.
Cars
3. Pioneered the use of mass production in automobile manufacturing
Henry Ford
4. Ford’s automobile that in 1924 sold for under $400.00
Model-T
5. American-style night clubs just outside of towns – became popular during the 1920s
6. Ex-World War I pilots amazed and terrified spectators at country fairs with daring air
stunts – and offered rides to adventurous locals – this practice was known as
Roadhouse
7. They opened up the north “flying by the seat of their pants.”
Bush Pilots
8. “Crystal Sets” were primitive forms of these
9. Credited with inventing the radio. He also set up the first commercial radio station in
the world – station XWA in Montreal – still operates today CFCF
10. Hockey Night In Canada began March 1923 when this man gave the first play-by-play
account of a hockey game in Toronto
11. In 1932, following the recommendations of the Aird Commission this public broadcasting
commission was created – in 1936 it became the CBC
Radios
12. The establishment of this board in 1939 promoted the film industry in Canada
13. Canadian born actress, known as “America’s Sweetheart” became Hollywood’s most
popular film actress during the 1920s.
NFB
14. Chicago gangster headed a huge crime syndicate in the 20s
Al Capone
15. The Canadian Al Capone of Hamilton, Ontario.
Rocco Perri
16. Slang of the era for bootleg liquor
Hooch
17. Slang of the era for cool, up-to-date
18. A law that banned the making, selling, and drinking of liquor – was in effect in the
United States from 1919 to 1933
Hep
19. Selling illegal alcohol
Bootlegging
20. Smuggling Canadian bootleg liquor into the United States
Rum-running
21. The last Canadian province to maintain its prohibition laws (1940)
Prince Edward Island
22. The rum-running Canadian schooner that was sunk by USA authorities in 1929
I’m Alone
23. Canada’s first woman MP.
Agnes Macphail
24. Woman elected as an MLA in Alberta in 1921.
25. This famous women’s basketball team won 502 out of 522 games and four
gold medals
26. In the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, this high-jumper – “The Saskatoon Lily” won
a gold medal
Nellie McClung
Barnstorming
Marconi
Foster Hewitt
CRBC
Mary Pickford
Prohibition
Edmonton Grads
Ethel Catherwood