Essay On Canada Identity

Over the many years and wars that Canada has gone through. The identity of Canada has been shaped differently, from each of the topics that I have researched I believe that Canada 's identity has been shaped in a positive way. Dating back to when the women from Manitoba have shaped Canada 's identity they have greatly shaped it when they were able to win the right to vote in January 1916. Winning the right for women to vote was a great accomplishment for women 's rights in Canada. When the women began to vote equality began to grow in Canada and more men and women had equal rights. By the 1920 's women became more accepted in society as the time went by women were becoming more socially acceptable by men and by 1929 women were able to …show more content…
Women were still not getting the equal pay that men would normally get before they went off to the war and for world war 2 women employment rose higher which meant that more women were unhappy about the lower wages they were getting because they were women. Children and mothers would have to evacuate because they were in danger and often teachers would go with the children and all the teachers were often women because teaching children was considered a woman 's job. As world war 2 began to come to an end many women were losing their jobs because men would come and take their old jobs back or some men would go and take on new jobs which also caused the women to start losing their …show more content…
In 1940 John Diefenbaker was elected to be in the Canadian house of Commons and later he was elected the leader of the conservative party of Canada in 1956. He became the prime minister of Canada in 1957 and began developing The Canadian bill of rights and it was enacted by the parliament of Canada on August 10, 1960. John Diefenbaker developed the Canadian Bill of rights because he had a strong interest in human rights and wanted more multiculturalism in