1. Canadian Leaders
Post War Period

2. A Pre-WWII Review Robert Borden, 1911- 1920
Conservative
Significant for role in WWI
William Lyon Mackenzie-King, , 1926 – 1930,
Liberal
associated with post war boom, roaring 20s
out of power by the time of the stock market crash & depression
R. B. Bennett, ( )
Associated with Bennett Buggy and Bennett’s New Deal (a phrase taken from US president FDR’s New Deal
William Lyon Mackenzie King (1935 – 1948)
Associated with War Measures Act, Conscription Crisis & other wartime actions,
initiated changes in post war legislation on immigration, unemployment benefits, family allowance

3. Prime Ministers of Canada
Robert Borden
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Richard Bedford Bennett

4. Louis St. Laurent (1948-1957) Liberal
associated with oil & mining industry prosperity, & US investment, in Canadian Economy
Big projects include:
St. Lawrence Seaway project,
Trans-Canada highway
Trans-Canada natural gas pipeline
(see photocopied readings)

5. Louis St. Laurent ( )
IV. Pushed Newfoundland & Labrador to join as Canada’s 10th province.
Laurent encouraged Joey Smallwood (a journalist, trade unionist & farmer in Nfld) to organize a petition to have Nfld’s confederate with Canada as part of the referendum (when a law is voted by the people)
March 3, 1949, Newfoundland becomes Canada’s 10th province.
(see photocopied readings)

6. John Diefenbaker 1957-1963 Progressive Conservative Associated with
NORAD,
the termination of the Avro Arrow project
Cuban Missile Crisis
believed in a united country & the welfare state in terms of those elderly & disabled
1960, he introduced the Canadian Bill of Rights
(see photocopied readings)

7. Lester B. Pearson (1963-1968) Liberal
Suez Canal Crisis, Nobel Peace Prize
his gov’t is also associated with
improving Fr-Eng relations by creating a Royal Commission on Bilingualism & Biculturalism
Canada Pension Plan and Medical Care

8. Lester B. Pearson (1963-1968) C. Flag Debate, 1965
cut symbolic ties w/ Britain
he designed the cluster of 3 leaves on a white background with blue bars on either side.
eventually the parliamentary committee recommended a single maple leaf with red bars
maple leaf used because it grows in every province and were on every coat of arms
Canadian Heritage Minute

9. Pierre Trudeau (1968-1979) Liberal Trudeau mania
French-Canadian who was youthful, stylish, jet set type lifestyle… women loved him
Implemented the Official Languages Act 1969
background: Royal Commission on Bilingualism & Biculturalism finds that Quebeckers were alienated from the rest of Canada because the French language was not considered equal to English throughout the country.
it recommends gov’t services be in Fr & Eng as well as the employment in civil service jobs open to Fr & English employees, and the teaching of Fr. As a second language be improved
1969 Official Languages Act passed
(see photocpied readings)

10. Pierre Trudeau (1968-1979) Income Tax cuts
FIRA--Foreign Investment Review Agency
designed to approve foreign takeovers of Canadian companies and to screen the creation of new
companies by foreign owners
See photocopied readings
VII. NEP--National Energy Program was a response to the OPEC crisis
froze the price of Alberta Oil
also put a tariff on oil sold to the US to make up for the oil imported from OPEC countries

11. Reviewing Techniques
Go back to your notes from the beginning of the year. Can you name all the major political figures of?
You may opt to write out a time line of the major events of WWI Then on that timeline, draw segments which represent that particular Canadian PM.
Bennett
Diefenbaker
Cuban Missile Crisis
1930
Great Depression
Bill of Rights
The New Deal
Avro Arrow Closure