Social Studies Chapter 11 A Modern Industrial Nation

By Eena and Madelaine

*Social Studies Chapter 11 A Modern Industrial Nation

*Introduction

* Before , during and after the Second World War, Canada faced hard times. *People were left without jobs and money.*But during the war, lots of soldiers were

sent over seas so there were lots of jobs to be found.*After war Canada's population grew.*Why? *It is because of the Baby Boom

*Baby Boom

*These are some reasons for the Baby Boom:*After the war ended soldiers were apart from their

beautiful loving wives/girlfriends/fiancés.*They really missed each other, so then they decided to

start making new families. (Having children)*The federal government started giving money to

families.*The money was used to help with costs of raising

children.*This money was called family allowance.*The Baby Boom lasted for 9 years, 1948-1957.

*Television

*Canadians started buying televisions around the late 1940s.*Since shows only aired a few times a day,

there were times when the televisions only had black and white test patterns.*Some Canadian families were so excited that

they would stare at the black and white test patterns hours before the show would even start.

*Toronto and Montreal

*Toronto and Montreal had planned to build subway systems.*But that didn’t happen because metal was used for

war supplies.*Finally in 1950,Toronto broke ground to start a

subway system.*Workers discovered a huge rock under Toronto's

street.*So they had to blast through it with dynamite twice

daily.*They sound/noise was so terrible and scary that

there was a radio jingle made.

*TIME TO STAND UP AND SING.

*Yes we’re gonna have a subway in Toronto,

We gotta get the working man home pronto,So bear the noise with a smile,And in a little while,WE’LL BE RIDIN’ IN THE NEW SUBWAY.

*The Industrial Boom

* Things in Canada grew bigger such cars , families, and cities.*Canada had become larger because Newfoundland joined

Canada in 1949.*For the first time ever, Canadians had much more money to

spend.*That’s because of Canada's resources.*Some of the resources are: oil, precious minerals, and very

strong rivers.*Oil was a source of gasoline and if more people bought cars,

more gasoline was needed. In 1950 Alberta's oil industry was booming.*Electricity was also needed to power new appliances. So

companies like hydro-Quebec and hydro-Manitoba built dams on northern rivers.

*Forestry was an other industry.*Canadians needed wood to make new houses/homes.*Thanks to the war Canada got a head start in manufacturing. *The factories that made tanks, uniforms, and machine guns,

made: cars, nylon stockings, and washing machines.*Mining also became important because it provided metals for

many things Canadians wanted.*The new industries were very good for some Canadians, nut

not for all.*Many of the aboriginals in Canada found there ways of life

ruined by mines, pulp mills, and hydroelectric projects.*The hydro company flooded the aboriginals land to make

dams.*The flooding destroyed their sacred burial grounds.*The forest was cleared by pulp and paper companies, which

made animals move somewhere else, mining and paper companies polluted water and the land.

*Anishinabe of the Narrows Reserves

*The English-wabigoon river is a river that flows into a Grassy Narrows First Nation in the northwest of Ontario.*The Anishinabe, who lived there ran fishing businesses there. *1950s and the 1960s many people worked as fishing guides for the

tourists.*A paper mill that was 160 kilometres upstream dumped mercury waste

into the river.*The waste soon went down stream, polluting the river and poisoning the

fish.*By 1970 the English-wabigoon river was polluted no one would eat the

poisoned fishes.

*Tourists stopped going on fishing trips and, the tour guides were out of work.

*The bad part is that the Grassy Narrows got sick from eating too many fish for many years.

*Alberta Strikes Oil

*On February 1947, a man named Vernon Hunter drilled for oil in Leduc, Alberta.*He found so much oil that Alberta went to

rags to riches almost over night.*Oil barons moved into western Canada and

found even more oil.*Billions of dollars were made in Canada. *Alberta was one of the richest provinces in

Canada.

*Canadian Inventions

*The Canoe, kayak, snow goggles, snowshoes, and even the game of Lacrosse were invented by the Aboriginal people. *Armand Bombardier is from Quebec and he invented the

Snowmobile.*Harry Wasylyk of Winnipeg made the first plastic garbage

bags.

*The Winnipeg general hospital had been always been concerned of cleanness, because the hospital had garbage bins and after throwing out the garbage they would have to clean the garbage bin. Thanks to Harry Wasylyk for making the garbage bag the solution of never washing a garbage bin over and over again has been solved.

*Canadian Inventions

*Another invention is the heart pacemaker. *It was made by a Manitoban engineer named Jack Hopps.*This invention is used to regulate uneven heartbeats(1950). *Satellites orbiting the earth always/often needed repairs, but

they couldn't catch the satellites after their in space.*In 1979 Canadian Scientists made a robotic arm named

Canadarm*It would grab broken satellites and pull them into space

shuttles for repair.

* Bill Konyk’s Perogie Maker

*Bill Konyk is a Ukrainian Canadian.*He knew how long it takes to make a

pergoie by hand.*So he decided to make a handy gadget

that makes 18 perogies in seconds.

*Bearproof Suit

*Troy Hurtubise is a scrap metal dealer from Ontario.*He was once survived an attack from a

grizzly bear.*He built a suit out of scrap metal, titanium,

chain mail, rubber, and plastic.*In 2001, he finally went against a bear. *The bear was afraid of the strange looking

suit so the bear didn’t attack.

*Fads

*There were so many popular and unpopular things between the 1950s and 1960s.*The Hula-hoops were a big fad to kids of all

ages.*Elvis Presley music was very polpualar.*Poodle skirts were a big step in fashion back

then.*Television shows such as I love Lucy and Ed

Sullivan Show were watched.*Every child wanted an Oopik.*Oopiks are stuffed sealskin owls made by Inuits.

*Hair

*In the 1960s, teenage boys copied the hair style of the popular singer Elvis Presley*Boys grew there hair to

shaggy mop tops to look like the Beatles.(they were really popular in the 1960s)

*Teenage girls hair had changed a lot, pony tails to bobs and bee hives.

*Hair got bigger, better, and longer.

*In the late1960s, many teenagers didn’t like the old generation.*So they grew their longer and

longer.

*Paul Anka

*In the year of 1957, Paul Anka was an international pop star.*He wrote his first song called “Diana” *Many more hit song followed.*Teenage fans would mob Anka everywhere

he’d go.*Once, in Japan, his fans waited for

autographs in front of his hotel, in the middle of a typhoon.

*Marilyn Bell

*Marilyn bell, a 16 year old high school student from Toronto dove into lake Ontario at youngstown, new york and swam for almost 21 hours and got out of the other side of the lake.*She was the first person to swim across in lake

Ontario.*1955,Marilyn Bell swam across the English

channel between Britain and France. *1956,Bell swam across the strait of Juan de

Fuca in British Colombia

*http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/englishchannel.htm

*http://www.ourbc.com/bc_maps/the_islands/bc_maps_strait_juan_de_fuca.htm

*Don Messer’s Jubilee

*Don Messer’s Jubilee was a famous television show in Canada.*It was a Cbc music show from Halifax, Nova

scotia.*The show aired for ten years, from 1959 to

1969.*When the show had been cancelled, fans

were upset.*Some were so upset they protested at the

Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.

*Social Welfare

*Between 1921 and 1941, two-thirds of Canadians lived in poverty.*1951, only one-third of Canadians were poor.*Things changed and got better because there were more jobs.*But there were still some Canadians that were poor. *Most of them were the elderly.*A lot of them were Aboriginal and French Canadian. *However, new wealth which meant that the government of

Canada would help there needy citizens.*Programs were provided for the ones who needed it.*Family allowance*Medicare*Old age pension

*Tommy Douglas’s Bad Knee

*Tommy Douglas was a boy that fell on a stone and hurt his knee.*But his knee would not heal properly, and since his family was

poor and he was new to Canada, so his family couldn't afford to let tommy to go to the hospital.

*But with out medical care his knee got even worse, and soon he had to walk in crutches.*Going to school in winter was hard for Tommy because he

couldn’t climb over the ice and snow. So a neighbourhood boy had to drop him off to school with a sled.

*But tommy’s leg got even worse, the only choice they had to do was to pay for the expensive operation to cut off his leg.

*The bad thing was that his family couldn’t afford the operation.*But a man named Dr. Smith offered to do the operation for free.*Because of Dr. Smith tommy Douglas would've have lost his leg.*After this experience tommy grew up and became a premier of

Saskatchewan, he worked very hard to create a government program called Medicare.

*It started on july1,1962, this program provided free medical care for the people in the province.*So people from Saskatchewan rich or poor had free medical care.*Then tommy Douglas went to Ottawa in 1962 and was the leader

of the new democratic party.*He encouraged the federal government to make a nation wide

Medicare program.

*And so, on 1966,prime minister Pearson set up Medicare for every Canadian.

*Conclusion

*In the 1950s and the 1960s, a lot Canadians enjoyed the wonderful life they had.*When Canada's 100th birthday in 1967, Canadians

wanted to do away with the inequalities in their country.

*They also wanted to build a society that reflects modern times.*While in progress, Canada would see some of the

most dramatic moments in history

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