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Canada during the Roaring 20s. POLITICS OF THE 1920s Aurthur Meighen William Lyon Mackenzie King Wilfrid Laurier Robert Borden.

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1 Canada during the Roaring 20s

2 POLITICS OF THE 1920s Aurthur Meighen William Lyon Mackenzie King Wilfrid Laurier Robert Borden

3 1919: Laurier Dies

4 New Liberal Leader elected: William Lyon Mackenzie King

5 1920 Borden Resigns Arthur Meighen New Prime Minister

6 NEW TECHNOLOGY

7 1920 - November 2: First ‘licensed’ commercial Radio broadcast

8 Radio Broadcasting

9 Hot Rides…

10 A Country Road…

11 1927 Ford Model T

12 1928 Ford Model A Roadster

13 Arts and Entertainment

14 First Hockey Night in Canada Foster Hewitt: March 22, 1923

15 The ‘Group of Seven’

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18 Emily Carr

19 Silent Films

20 Felix the Cat

21 1927 – The First ‘Talkie’ The Jazz Singer is released

22 Mary Pickford

23 Jazz & Dance The Charleston

24 WOMEN IN THE 1920s

25 Flappers and Fashion

26 Recall earlier fashion of 1900s

27 Flappers

28 Flapper Girls “The flapper was the heroine of the Jazz Age. With short hair and a short skirt, with turned- down hose and powdered knees - the flapper must have seemed to her mother like a rebel. No longer confined to home and tradition, the typical flapper was a young women who was often thought of as a little fast and maybe even a little brazen. Mostly, the flapper offended the older generation because she defied conventions of acceptable feminine behavior. The flapper was ‘modern.’”

29 First female MP Agnes Macphail elected December 6, 1921

30 The Persons’ Case 1929

31 The Persons’ Case The Persons’ Case was fought by five Albertan women Emily Murphy Emily Murphy Nellie McClung Nellie McClung Irene Parlby Irene Parlby Henrietta Muir Edwards Henrietta Muir Edwards Louise McKinney Louise McKinney

32 Sports

33 LIONEL CONACHER

34 1928 OLYMPICS

35 Canada’s Team includes women for the 1 st time

36 Percy Williams

37 Prohibition

38 Stock Market Crash October 29, 1929


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