1. The Roaring Twenties!

2. Intro Dancing in the 20’s! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0
Fun vid
1920’s life

3. Automobiles Automobile was changing the landscape
Difficult landscape delayed Trans-Canada Highway
Many good roads went north and south to the USA
Increased influence of US
culture in Canada

4. Example: Ford’s Model T
Model T-Ford was popular
Henry Ford’s moving assembly line factories mass produced cars making them cheaper
Ford paid workers $5 a day in exchange for no unions

5. Model T
$295!!!
Ford employees got paid $5 a day- 59 days worth of work to by a car.

6. Driving in the 20’s
1927 in BC driving switched from left to right hand side of road
1928 first White Spot drive-in restaurant opened

7. Aviation After WWI many pilots became “bush pilots”
Explored and transported supplies to remote mining and lumber camps
Helped police and bring medicine to remote areas

8. Yeah… just hanging around the plane… no big deal.

9. Connected rural communities

10. 1920’s style….

13. Women’s fashion (don’t need to write this down!)
After the War, women's dress more masculine and looser and more shapeless in fit.
“Flapper” dress
“The ideal silhouette of the is one with a suppressed bust, broad shoulders, undefined waist, and short hair” –Chanel, 1920’s

16. Improved Communications in the 1920’s
Telephone became a standard household appliance
Telephone lines shared by many neighbors
Eavesdropping became daily entertainment

17. Radio Radio became widespread
Brought entertainment to remote areas and farms
Big US radio stations dominated the airwaves

18. FILM!!! Silent movies followed by “talkies” were introduced
Big US studios dominated the movie industry
Many Canadians migrated to the US to get involved in radio and Movies

19. Movie star Mary Pickford became known as “America’s sweetheart”

20. Charlie Chaplin