National Unity

Japanese

In the 1920s and 1930s, even well-educated Japanese who sought employment in business or the professions were unable to obtain employment outside the Japanese Canadian enclaves

During the Second World War, the federal Cabinet destroyed the Japanese Canadian community in British Columbia.

used the War Measures Act to order the removal of all Japanese Canadians residing within 160 km of the Pacific coast. At the time the government claimed that Japanese Canadians were being removed for reasons of “national security,”

Internment Camps

More than 8,000 were moved through a temporary detention centre at Hastings Park in Vancouver

the women and children were accommodated in the Livestock Building

The detainees were shipped to camps near Hope, BC, and in the Kootenays, to sugar beet farms in southern Alberta and Manitoba, and to road labour camps along the Hope-Princeton and Yellowhead highways in BC

Confiscation, Reposession and Removal

Between 1943 and 1946, the federal government sold all Japanese Canadian-owned property — homes, farms, fishing boats, businesses and personal property — and deducted from the proceeds any social assistance received by the owner while confined and unemployed in a detention camp.

the Canadian government defied Parliament to give the Cabinet the power to deport 10,000 Japanese Canadians to war-ravaged Japan

First Nations

Indigenous youth volunteered in the thousands, more still were conscripted, and communities contributed to the national war effort.

Indian Affairs figures for First Nations enlistments note 3,090, but these figures were woefully incomplete. The numbers for Status Indians were closer to 4,300

Jews

Canada had a policy of isolationism so they did not welcome refugees

Anti-semitism

Some Canadians supported the dictators and their hatred towards jewish people

after Kristalnacht, liberal cabinet minister Thomas Crerar recommended 10,000 people be allowed to immigrate to canada. The cabinet refused

Jewish refugees were seen as a burden to the state

Conscription Crisis

Francophones

Voted 'no' for conscription

They thought it wasn't their war to fight

Didn't want to go to war

Anglophones

Were Pro-consription

felt that it was their duty

Bill 80

This bill authorized conscription if it was deemed necessary over seas

The Dieppe Raid

Operation Jubilee was the first Canadian Army engagement in the European theatre of the war

The raid was a disaster: More than 900 Canadian soldiers were killed, and thousands more were wounded and taken prisoner

Coping With the Depression

Leisure Activities

Gardening

Film

25 Cents a Ticket

Volunteer Work

Radio

affordable for almost everyone

Had too much American Influence

The solution was to make an All-Canadian Radio Network, The CBC

Radio shows

Comedy

Abbott and Costello

Mystery

The Shadow

Sports

hockey: Foster Hewitt’s

radio play-by-play

Music

On the Sunny Side of the street

Happy days are here again

Star dust, night and day

Stormy Weather

Sports

Baseball

Bluenose

Boxing

Basketball

Table Hockey

Bizarre Entertainement

Great Stork Derby

In the will of a Toronto Lawyer:
Charles Vance Millar $$ would be rewarded
To the women who could produce the most children
in the 10 years after his death.

There were 4 winners

$125,000 each

Relief Camps

The Government was afraid of people riots and damage
as major cities were filling with unemployed men

Thousands of single men had few options and were criss-
crossing the country looking for work

PM Bennett decided to build WORK CAMPS

These were often located in isolated northern towns, in the
Canadian wilderness

The camps were voluntary, but those who resisted could be
arrested for vagrancy

Relief Camps were formed by the Department of Defence

Jobs performed

Erected public buildings

Dug ditches

Planted trees

other Hard manual labor

The Trek

Trekkers had demands that they wanted completed

Regina Riot

Policed arrived at the public protest and riots began

Outcome

Leaders were Jailed

130 people were arrested

A police Officer died

2 people died

There were no changes, the men were forced back to their BC

After the riot they closed down the relief camps

King

Liberals

Elected from 1926-1930

Re-elected from 1935-1948

King became prime minister. He set out to regain the confidence of the farmers in Ontario and western Canada who had supported the new Progressive Party, but his reductions in tariffs and freight rates were not enough, and after the 1925 election the Liberals could stay in office only with Progressive support.

King did not believe at first that the Depression would seriously affect Canada, and refused to provide federal funding to provinces struggling with unemployment

To placate Canadians who feared the return of the Depression after the war and who looked to the government for greater social security, King introduced unemployment insurance in 1940

Bennet

Conservatives

Elected from 1930-1935

Was Blamed for the depression

Had aptly named bennet buggies and bennetvilles named after him

Produced the new deal which was a copy of the american one

It was too little too late and King won the elections

Conservatives under R.B. Bennett promised aggressive action against the depression, and the Liberals were soundly defeated in the 1930 election.