1. Arts & Culture: 1930s

2. Canadians were listening to American radio stations and watching films fears that this was causing Canadians to lose their identity Bennett created Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in 1932 THE CBC

3. Arts & Culture: 1930s THE NFB 1939 Mackenzie King founded the NFB Canada’s public film producer and distributor An agency of the Government of Canada John Grierson “Father of the Documentary” was appointed its first film commissioner and played a pivotal role in the agency’s development. Purpose was to tell Canadian stories to Canadians and others around the world.

4. Arts & Culture: 1930s Canadians in Film : Marie Dressler From Cobourg Ontario Dressler was a Canadian comedienne in an American-dominated film industry that was going strong in Hollywood Won the Academy Award for best actress in 1931 for her film Min and Bill She died of cancer in 1934

5. Arts & Culture: 1930s Sports & Radio: Foster Hewitt Toronto Maple Leafs Win Stanley Cup 1932 During the Depression, hockey provided many Canadians will hope. Creation of Maple Leaf Gardens 1931-1932

6. Arts & Culture: 1930s Sports & Radio: Foster Hewitt Toronto Maple Leafs Win Stanley Cup 1932 Foster Hewitt was Canada's premier hockey play-by-play broadcaster for forty years for “Hockey Night in Canada” Sign-on at the beginning of each broadcast, "Hello, Canada, and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland" "He shoots, he scores!"

7. Arts & Culture: 1930s “Pop Culture” : The Dionne Quintuplets On May 28, 1934, five identical girls are born to the Dionnes in Callander, Ontario The Canadian government takes them from their parents and makes them wards of the state for “protection” For the first nine years of their lives, they live at a hospital in their hometown that becomes a tourist mecca called "Quintland."

8. 1934 – 1943: 3 million people visit Quintland The government and nearby businesses make an estimated half-billion dollars off the tourists nation's biggest tourist attraction – bigger than Niagara Falls. “Pop Culture” : The Dionne Quintuplets Arts & Culture: 1930s

9. Visual Arts: The Canadian Group of Painters (forms 1933) Arthur Lismer twenty-eight members included most progressive English- speaking artists from across Canada.

10. Arts & Culture: 1930s Lawren HarrisA.Y. Jackson Visual Arts: The Canadian Group of Painters (forms 1933)

11. Arts & Culture: 1930s Did Canada have its own culture in the 1930s? Why or why not?