1. Chapter 13: A New Canada (286-308)

2. TERMS General Strike Mechanical Power Assembly Line Cottage Industry
Suffrage
Division of Labour
Industrialization
Minimum Wage
Factory
Industrial Revolution
Mass Media

3. CHAPTER INQUIRY
How did industrialization, urbanization, and technological change affect the identities of Canadians both positively and negatively?

4. MAIN CONCEPTS The Rise of Industry Technology & Identity
An Industrial Society
Canadian Women Step Up
5. Bad Times, Good Times

5. OLD VERSUS NEW TECHNOLOGY

6. TECHNOLOGY Is everything that we use to carry out tasks.
It is more than the tools we use.
It is also the way we use tools.
Technology has a huge impact on society. It has changed us.
For example, think about the evolution of the car and how it has impacted our lives.

7. TECHNOLOGY & CANADIANS
Think about technologies we began using a century ago:
Light bulb
Telephone
Automobile
Airplane
New Farm Equipment
Machine Guns

8. SO BIG WE NOW CALL IT A REVOLUTION!
THE RISE OF INDUSTRY
A big change took place after Confederation:
Industrialization: An economic system based on large industries.
SO BIG WE NOW CALL IT A REVOLUTION!
Industrial Revolution: The shift from home based hand manufacturing to large scale factory production.

9. 3 Factors made the revolution possible in Canada:
THE RISE OF INDUSTRY
Revolution can describe any major change in the world. For example, the computer revolution.
The Industrial Revolution began when people started using MECHANICAL POWER.
Industrial Revolution began in BRITAIN. It spread to other countries.
3 Factors made the revolution possible in Canada:
New Technologies
Business Investors
Large Workforce

10. INDUSTRIALIZATION

11. THE RISE OF INDUSRTY Cottage Industries
A new type of workplace emerged: A FACTORY
Division of Labour: As a result work became repetitive, and workers lost their skills.
Early factories were organized with machines in mind, not people.
Factories were compared to jails.

12. TECHNOLOGY & IDENTITY
The 1910s – 1920s brought new ways to travel & communicate.
Farmers didn’t like cars because they frightened their horses.
1924 – a Ford automobile = $395!!! At that time a weekly wage was a minimum of $14.
Cars = Better roads

13. Canadian Car Factory (1930)

14. TECHNOLOGY & IDENTITY Airplane
Television: We like to hear about other parts of the country. It strengthens our feeling of being Canadian.
MASS MEDIA: Newspapers, radio, televisions.

15. Fred McCall: Calgary Exhibition 1919

16. AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
The expanding economy brought prosperity. It also brought social problems.
As cities grew, they became overcrowded, dirty & unhealthy.
Competition for wealth led to the most destructive wars the world has ever seen.
Canada’s Growing Pains:
The First World War ( )

17. FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1918) Germany had the biggest army in the world!
Germany surrendered in 1918.
How did it start? An assassination.
It was fought mainly in Europe, but had impact all over the world.
Canada went to war as part of the British Empire.
Canada’s factories made: guns, battleships, aircraft, submarines, & poisonous gases.
Technology did not cause the war, but it made fighting far more deadly.

18. VIMY RIDGE: FRANCE (1917)

19. AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
The cities in Canada got bigger and bigger. During the 1920s, more Canadians began to live in cities rather than in the country.
The complex Canadian identity slowly changed.
SUBURBS: Residential neighborhoods at the city’s edge.
Workers began to form UNIONS. A hope to improve the conditions people worked.
STRIKE: Unionized workers refuse to work until things get better and they get what they want.

20. CANADIAN WOMEN STEP UP

21. CANADIAN WOMEN STEP UP Many women entered the workforce.
Therefore, they began to demand the same rights as men.
During First World War, men were away. This gave women the opportunity to work the jobs that the men did.
After war, women had to go back to their domestic life.

22. FAMOUS FIVE

23. CANADIAN WOMEN STEP UP SUFFRAGE: the right to vote!
Beliefs are much harder to change than laws.
Men thought they should be the only ones involved in government.
THE “PERSONS” CASE: Under the law, only “qualified persons” could be senators, and women were not considered “persons.”
“FAMOUS FIVE”: 5 women, and in 1929, the court ruled that Canadian women were indeed persons.

24. BAD TIMES, GOOD TIMES
1930s, Canada along with much of the rest of the world, plunged into the GREAT DEPRESSION.
Factories closed
Wages fell
Worker lost their jobs
Others lost life savings
Financial crisis around the world.

25. Social Services in Canada:
GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES
Making a Change: On To Ottawa!
Trekkers: To make a slow or arduous journey. To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
Social Services in Canada:
Old-Age Pension
Employment Insurance
Family Allowance
Public Health Care

26. RETURN OF WAR 1939: World went to War again!
It started when Nazi Germany invaded its neighbors.
For the first time, Canada entered a war as an independent nation.
Lasted for 6 years. Canadian troops saw action in western Europe, Italy & Asia.
New technology was put into place. The United States had the atomic bomb, the most destructive weapon of all.

27. AFTER WAR: BABY BOOMERS

28. YOU TUBE CLIPS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Efq-aNBkvc
(Industrialization)
(Technology Revolution)
(Automobile)
(First World War)
(Famous Five)
(Great Depression)

29. PROJECT Due: June 7, 2017 1. Choose ONE of the following topics:
A. The Rise of Industry – Industrial Revolution ( )
B. Technology & Identity ( )
C. An Industrial Society – Vimy Ridge ( )
D. Canadian Women Step Up – Famous Five( )
E. Bad Times, Good Times – The Depression( )
2. Once you choose one of those, you read the textbook about it, internet research and choose either to do a digital presentation or an informative booklet about that topic.