How Did The Roaring Twenties Affect Canada

Susac 1 The Roaring Twenties were perhaps the most interesting and unique decade of all time. It was a time that brought many changes and technological advances that shaped the Canadian and American nations to be as we now know them. In this period of time, Canada was a mere British colony, where up to this point almost everything Canada did was being regulated and initiated by Britain. On the other side, we have the Americans, who were independent for nearly 150 years. These two countries that were different for so many years get very similar. In fact, for the years after the Great War, America had such a big influence

This went on for quite some time, and it eventually became normal. However eventually, both nations faced change which allowed women to vote for the first time in their respective histories. Women in Canada first got the right to vote in 1916 . Women in the United States first got the right to vote in 1920 . Along with the similar time frame where women got the right to vote, political candidates in both nations faced the same issue. Women having the right to vote introduced another party that they needed to please. With another group of people they could get votes from, both Canadian and American politicians got the same idea, and this idea was prohibition. Prohibition was started and of course, during this time frame, there were much less drunken people having a negative impact on each of the countries. Prohibition however, did not last forever in either country. In fact, in both cases, prohibition was

After the Great War, it was noticeable that Canadians were beginning to entertain themselves the same way Americans were. Arguably the most popular American entertainment breakthrough was the radio. The radio was huge in the United States, it was the main way American people would entertain themselves. Eventually, the radio began to spread up to Canada, with Canadians wanting to use radios as well. The Canadians faced a big problem, there were no Canadian stations, therefore making it very difficult for Canadians to use this form of entertainment. The demand for radio entertainment however was to large, that eventually the Canadian government created the CRBC (Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission). The CRBC was Canada’s first public broadcaster, and it later became the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Radios were not the only way the Americans influenced Canadian entertainment. In the 1920s, the film industry was blossoming so quickly in the United States. You could find a movie theatre in almost every town, with hundreds of movies being made every year through the mid 1920s. Movies then were not nearly what they are now, but big steps were being made through this time period. In the year 1927, the movie “The Jazz Singer”