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Economy Improves
 Beginning of the 1920s: Canada in an economic
depression
 By mid 1920s economy was improving
 Wheat, pulp, paper, and Canadian mining and
manufacturing industries began to Boom!
 Forest and mining booms increased demand for
hydroelectric power
United States Investments in Canada
 Before WWI Canada primarily traded with
Britain
 Post WWI: Britain was in debt & the US
emerged as the worlds leading economic power
 US invested in pulp and paper mills and then
most of the product were exported to the
United States
 75% of newsprint in Canada was exported to
the US
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Branch Plants
 Britain had preferred to lend money to
Canadian business
 The US set up Branch Plants
 Business that were owned and controlled by US
companies
 Operated in Canada
Example
 CARS
 General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford
 By the end of the 1920s they had taken over the
Canadian Auto Industry
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Results
 Canadians were pleased with Branch Plants
 They did not think about the long term
 US harvested Raw Materials (primary
industries)
 BUT: All the materials went to the US for
manufacturing (secondary industries)
 Who benefitted the most?
 THE UNITED STATES
Prohibiting & Bootlegging
 Prohibition was pushed into Canada and the US
by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
during WWI
 Banned the sale and manufacturing of alcohol
 Still available to those with money
 Doctors and/or bootleggers
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Prohibition
 Was not popular
 Especially among veterans  used to relaxed
European style
 By 1921 provincial governments started
regulating the sale of alcohol
 Plebiscites resulted in Canadian controlled
liquor outlets
 Prohibition in the states lasted until 1933
 Rum running was extremely popular from
Canada
Urbanization in the 1920s
 Farms in rural areas were becoming
mechanized
 An increase in manufacturing meant that more
Canadians were moving to cities = urbanization
 Those in Urban areas outnumbered those in
rural areas for the first time
 The city became undesirable to live in
 Poor workers lived there, slums became a big
problem
 More affluent families moved to residential
areas because they had cars that made this
possible
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Prosperity
 Booming economy meant that people could
participate in a new lifestyle
 The roaring 20s
 Cars, radios, movies
 Scandalous dances: The Charleston, the
Shimmy, the Turkey Trot
 The Charleston
 Cars made travel easier and tourism boomed 
Huge hotels were built for tourists
 New fashions: flappers, bob hair cuts
Cars, Cars, and more Cars
 The automobile started to change the
landscape of the country
 In 1913 Henry Ford had invented the assembly
line
 Mass production became easy and quick
 A car was made every 3 minutes, all the same
 Highways increased drastically in the 1920s
 Drive Ins!
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Communication
 Telephones were everywhere
 Lines were shared by many neighbours 
eavesdropping
 Radios brought pop-culture into Canadian
homes
 Mostly US stations for entertainment
 Movies!!! Silent  Musical effects  “Talkies”
in 1927
 Hollywood dominated the industry
 2 million movie tickets were bought per week
(10 million people)
Art: The Group of 7
 US influence in Canada created a new Canadian
art movement
 Group of Seven
 Rather than imitating older forms of art they
interpreted Canada’s landscape as they saw it
 They were criticized early on but gained
popularity and acceptance by the end of the
1920s
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Emily Carr
 Victoria
 West Coast forests and Aboriginal life
 Once she saw the work of the Group of 7 she
adapted to their style of painting for her own
works
Sports
 Professional baseball became popular over the
radio
 Hockey, golf, football and rugby
 NHL had 6 teams – 2 Canadian
Write an acrostic poem about one of the following:
1. Branch Plants
2. Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
3. Assembly Line
4. Roaring Twenties
5. Urbanization
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