Women's Rights Movement
- WWI saw women active in the work force- pressure groups helped to get women the vote- demand for equal rights started
Union Consciousness
- unions start largely due to hardship after WW I (i.e. lack of jobs, lower wages)- Winnipeg General Strike 1919: lasted one month , ended by police- workers wanted better wages and the right to form a union
Prohibition
- liquor sales outlawed until 1924 when most provinces had abandoned prohibition (it continued in the US though)
Materialism
- more people "bought into" the idea that money could bring happiness- greater interest in the lives of the rich and famous
Awe of Science
- belief that science could solve all mankind's problems
Pleasure and Leisure Time
- entertainment and pleasure became a higher priorityeg music, dancing, sports, radio, fashion
Moral Decay
- family structure loses some of its dominance- divorce on the increase- higher crime rates
Reasons For Economic Growth in the 1920s
Note: 1921: depression conditions in Canada; afterwards improvement
Why did Improvement Occur?
- growing demand for Canadian products i.e. wheat, lumber, minerals
- opening of mining in northern Ont., N. Que., SE BC
- stock market boom: Americans invest huge amounts of money in Canada through the stock market. America becomes the biggest foreign investor in Canada
- invention of the assembly line system makes cars affordable for Canadians. Many new jobs are created as most Canadian families buy a car (i.e. roads built, steel industry production up, etc.).