Defining Moments That Have Shaped Canada In The Early 1900's

Culminating Assignment

Many things have happened through history that have shaped Canada into the country that it is today. Some of these defining moments are Canada passing the war measures act, The battle at Vimy Ridge, and the battle of Ypres. Later in the 1920’s to 1939, prohibition, popularization of the automobile, and during the great depression, the Ottawa trek. During 1939-1969 some defining moments were the battle of Hong Kong, the japanese internment,

There were many defining moments in the early 1900’s. On the 22nd of August, 1914 the Canadian government passed the war measures act, which was “a federal statute adopted by parliament in 1914”. The government did this to have more control over Canadians and their property. This was

On April 9th to April 12th, 1917 Canadians fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge in an effort to control some German ground. Vimy Ridge was fought in Nord-Pas-De Calais region of france. A lot of planning went into this battle, such as making scale models of the trenches, setting up mines and other efforts to contribute to the battle of Vimy Ridge. This was defining for canadians because it was the first time all four divisions of the canadian corps attacked as a composite formation, and Canada became a nation. Lastly, The battle of Ypres. The battle of Ypres was fought between German and Canadian troops in the Flemish town of ypres in Western Belgium.On the 22nd of April 1915 Canada fought back against numerous of strong attacks from

The battle of Hong Kong, December 1941. It was Canada's first time fighting in WWII. The battle took place because the Japanese wanted to take over Hong Kong. Even though the Japanese won, this was still defining for Canadians because it was their first time fighting in WWII. There were many deaths, and those who didn't die were put into Prisoners of War camps, or POW camps. Another defining moment for Canada was the shameful Japanese internment in 1942. When the Japanese bombed pearl harbour in December 1941 it started a massive outbreak of racism against The Japanese. Unfortunately this included the Japanese Canadians who had nothing to do with the attack on pearl harbour, and were legally Canadian citizens,some of which even born in Canada.Anyone who was Japanese or Japanese Canadian was sent to one of the many Internment camps inland British Columbia. These internment camps were in ghost towns, or old fairgrounds that were nowhere close to even decent living conditions. They were treated poorly and had all of their belongings, including boats and houses taken away and sold for unreasonably low prices. Canada did all this because they were considered a “threat” even though most of them had done nothing wrong. This was a defining moment for canadians because it created an example of racism. Canada had sent innocent people away to awful camps, taken away their