Key Events in History

Aboriginal Peoples

Women

Minorities and Immigration

Canadian

1900

International
1899 Canadian volunteers
fight in the Boer War

Prime Ministers
18961911

1900

Wilfrid Laurier (liberal)

1903 Alaska boundary dispute

1905

1905 Alberta and

Saskatchewan become
provinces

1906 B.C. First Nations

leaders take land claims
to King Edward VII

1905

1907 Vancouver race riot

1908 Continuous Passage Act

1910

1910
19111920
1914 First World War begins

1915

1920

1919 Indian League of

Canada holds its first
meeting in Sault Ste.
Marie, ON

1916 Women win right to

vote in Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, and
Alberta

1920 Compulsory
attendance at
residential schools

1917 Women win right to

vote in B.C. and
Ontario
1918 Women win right to
vote in federal elections
1921 Agnes Macphail is first
woman elected to
parliament

1925
1927 Indian Act makes it
illegal to raise funds for
land claims without
government permission

1930

1914 Komagata Maru

incident

1914 War Measures Act

Conscription crisis

1920s Canada limits

Japanese immigration
1923 Chinese Exclusion Act

Khaki election
1919 Winnipeg General
Strike

Spanish flu pandemic

1915

Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
established
1922 Chanak Crisis
Mussolini comes to
power in Italy
1923 Halibut Treaty

1926 King-Byng Crisis

Imperial Conference
leads to Balfour Report
1927 Old-age pensions
introduced
1931 Statute of Westminster

1929 Famous Five win

persons case

1918 First World War ends

1919 Paris Peace Conference

1917 Halifax explosion

1919 Immigration Act

excludes people for
reasons of race,
culture, and political
beliefs

Robert Borden (conservative)

1932 Co-operative
Commonwealth
Federation (CCF)
founded
Federal relief camps
established

1928 Joseph Stalin gains

control of the Soviet
Union
1929 Stock market crash
Depression begins
1933 Adolph Hitler comes to
power in Germany
Franklin Roosevelt
introduces economic
new deal in the U.S.

19201921
19211926
William Lyon Mackenzie King
(liberal)

1925
1926 (3 months)
Arthur Meighen (conservative)
19261930
William Lyon Mackenzie King
(liberal)

1939 St. Louis is turned

away from Canada

1942 Japanese Canadians

interned

1949 Aboriginal peoples win

the right to vote in
B.C.
1953 High Arctic relocation
begins

1950

1938 Kristallnacht in Germany

1936 CBC created

1939 Second World War begins

1937 Rowell-Sirois Report

1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

1939 British Commonwealth

Air Training Plan begins

1944 D-Day

1940 National Resources

Mobilization Act

1940

1945

1935 On-to-Ottawa Trek

1954 Aboriginal peoples win

the right to vote in
Ontario

1945 Almost one third of all

Canadian women are
employed in the war
effort

1942 Canadians vote in

favour of conscription

R.B. Bennett (conservative)

19351948

1935

William Lyon Mackenzie King

(liberal)

UN sets up World Bank

and International
Monetary Fund

1940

1945 U.S. drops atomic bombs

on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan

1947 Displaced people from

Europe immigrate

Second World War ends

Chinese Exclusion Act

repealed

1948 Universal Declaration of

Human Rights

1949 Japanese people win

right to vote in B.C.

1930

19301935

1936 Spanish Civil war begins

1935

1920

Arthur Meighen (conservative)

1945

United Nations created

1949 NATO formed

1949 Newfoundland joins
Canada
1951 Massey Report

Geneva Convention
1950 Korean War begins
1953 Korean War ends

19481957
Louis St. Laurent (liberal)

1950