Discrimination Of Women In Canada In The 1920's

The 1920s and 30s had earned their reputation as “The Roaring Twenties” through the prosperity of technological developments and dynamic culture by the modern mass production, and mass consumption economy. It raised the standards of the middle and working class people in Canada in the 1920s. However, among all these prosperities and benefits, the roaring 1920s had not only given birth to technological developments; it had also given birth to discrimination against women and aboriginal peoples, racism and ended with the big crash of the stock market known as the Great Depression or The Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Although women had recruited themselves to vacant jobs during the World War I while men went to fight the war, few women were selected …show more content…
In spite of Aboriginal veterans contributing greatly by giving money and volunteering to participate in the war battlefields of Europe, found their dedications and hard work were all in vain and did nothing to change their lifestyle. The Aboriginals still endured and faced the racism, poverty, and assimilation in Canada. They were still not considered as “persons’ under the law. They did not have the right to vote in provincial or federal elections. The government built residential schools for Aboriginal kids to replace their cultural traditions with the Christian culture. This step had built a wall and divided the community who replaced the cultures against who wanted to keep them. In residential schools, many children were sexually abused and physically harmed. The government had banned the Aboriginal ceremony known as Potlatch Ceremony as it was considered an obstacle to assimilate Aboriginal children. The provincial government arrested the chiefs who performed the Potlatch Ceremony and sentenced them to jail. In the 1920s, the government had changed the Indian Act to allow them to enfranchise Aboriginals, which meant that the government could take away their Indian Status and make them a Canadian without their consent. Even after the end of the enfranchisement, women who married men who were not Indians still had to give up their status as …show more content…
On 4 September 1929, the stock market was massive high, which encouraged banks and investors to invest heavily to gain much more. However, the high could not stay high anymore, and on 27 October 1929, the stock market dropped heavily by 11.5%. From September to October, the stock market dropped by 39.6%. The interest rates increased on the broker lanes, which made it more difficult for the investors to pay back. The stock market crash resulted in a loss of around $14 billion. There were many reasons for the crash of the stock market. One of the reasons is overproduction. Many industries had to face overproduction as they had received high demands to produce all kinds of products and consumers had been lured to buy them on credit. Eventually when the stock market crashed, people did not buy high priced goods. Therefore, the manufacturers had to lower the prices of their goods and stockpiled them. The decrease in production and prices resulted in layoffs of workers in factories, which also affected how people could not afford to either buy consumer goods or pay their bills. The Great Depression also had led to interpret the major weakness of the Canadian economy, which is Canada’s heavy independence on the export of primary resources. The competition of growing wheat in different countries and selling them in international markets resulted in the overproduction of wheat in Canada. As international sales