1. By: Charlee, Ariel, Emily
Pop culture in Canada 1920
By: Charlee, Ariel, Emily 

2. Slang Bimbo: refers to a macho man
Butt me!”: “I would like a cigarette.”
Cash: a smooch
Cheaters: Glasses or bifocals
Choice bit of calico: a desirable woman
Berries: like “bee’s knees,” denotes that something is good, desirable or pleasing. “That sounds like berries to me!”
Darb: something deemed wonderful or splendid, similar to “berries”
“Don’t take any wooden nickels!”: “Don’t do anything dumb!”
Dumb Dora: an unintelligent woman
Tomato: a woman
Sinker: a doughnut
Upstage: arrogant, snobby
Gasper: cigarette, “fag” (also of the 1920s) fag is a British term for cigarette.
Manacle: Wedding ring
Handcuff: engagement ring
“Go chase yourself!”: “Get out of here!”
Giggle water: liquor, alcoholic beverage
Hotsy-totsy: attractive, pleasing to the eye
Know your onions: to know what’s up or what’s going on
Noodle juice: tea.
Mazuma: Dollar bills, cash, money
Oliver Twist: an extremely good dancer.
Ossified: drunk
Petting pantry: a cinema or movie theatre
Reuben: a hick or redneck
Rub: a dance party for college or high school students

3. Poplar pastimes Most time people will do some Hobbes
People will go out to watch a movie in a theaters with their families, friends
Radios would play music and baseball games and others programs
Plays are popular as well as for theaters
Reading a newspaper
Family’s would get in there cars and pleasure of traveling together, would not have a fixed places in mined and this is called “Sunday drives”(but most people would not have them)
Drinking was the most popular thing to do
Sports was the most popular pastime like: hockey, baseball, soccer, field hockey, rugby
church
Poplar pastimes
Popular pastimes are all different to people and family's because they all like different thing.

4. During the height of the Great Depression, jazz was considered a little avant garde, a little dangerous and was flourishing in Montreal.
Black Americans developed jazz at the turn of the century. The improvised music combined elements of ragtime, blues, spirituals, and band music. By the 1920s, jazz had migrated across the border to Canada.
Music
Canada in the 1920s was also know as “the Jazz age”.

5. Those of us weaned on ''technicolour" and bombarded by "surround sound" may conclude that silent black and white films could never excite the audience. Not so. In release starring Lillian Gish, the Herald enthused. Movies in that time where very entertaining to the viewers.
As silent movies became more popular, people began coming to view them more and more so as movies spread through Canada. The average cost to view on was : Adults 25cents Children 15 cents
Movies
Cary on, Sergeant!-1928
The Great Shadow-1920
NaNook of the North-1922
Blue Water-1924

6. Dance Techno shuffling Belly dancing Cheerleader Street dancing Latin
New vogue
Waltz
Fox trot
Quick step
Samba
The Tracy lee waltz
The Charmaine
The gypsy tap
The tangeite
Poso doble
Jive
Viennese waltz
Contemporary tap
Folk dancing
Dance
A young teenager in the 1920's was hospitalized for non-stop dancing for four days. ( Name of teenager is unknown.)
Slang's for dancing
Oliver twist – a really good dancer 

7. Fashion in the 1920's. Women Fashion:
Short Flapper style clothes that provided freedom of movement
Art Deco designs
Cloche hats and bobbed hairstyles
The boyish 'garconne' look and adoption of male clothing
Casual styles for day wear as worn by Norma Shearer in the photo
Fun, fringed flapper dresses or glamorous silk gowns for evening attire
Fashion in the 1920's.

8. Men's fashion in the 1920's.

9. Daily life People were eager to get home after the war
Many moved to the city in the hope of finding jobs
many Canadians out of work in the early twenties.
1926 better market for the traditional resources, like wheat and timber, and increasing demand.
Women, finally allowed to vote
Factory's are getting bigger and better and need more people to work in them.
More people are coming in to cities and are getting closer to towns as well
Daily life
Daily life in the 1920s was hared for women and kids.