1. LIFE IN THE ROARING 2OS
. Fashion 11. Automobile/Its Social Impacts
. Beauty 12. Telephones/ Urbanization,
. Women: Married vs. Single 13. Jazz & Dance
. Women in the Workforce 14. Fun & Recreation, Movies, Star
. Women in Education 15. Basketball
. Women in Politics 16. Travel/Aviation
2. Fashion entering the 1920s
• The 1920s is the decade
where fashion hit a turning
point and entered the
modern era
• Men and women broke out
of the old sophiesticated
ways of dressing with floor
length dresses and fancy
suits
• They began to wear more
comfortable and relaxed
clothing
3. Change of Womens fashion
• Womens fashion changed
with their changing roles in
society
• Women started to wear
shorter skirt with pleats or
slits and cut their hair in to
short bobs to fit under their
tight fitting cloche hats
• Undergarmets also began to
transform, the corset was
discarded and replaced with
a camisole and bloomers
• Some women in society of a
certain age did not agree
with the change in fashion
and continued to wear
conservative dresses
4. Change of Mens Fasion
• Men started to wear short
suit jackets, and short
trousers so their socks
showed
• By 1925 wide trousers called
“Oxford Bags” came into
style
• Men wore hats depending on
their class, upper class- top
hats, lover or middle class-
fedora or trilby hat
5. Impact of Fashion on
Canadian society in the 1920s
• Fashion had a huge impact
of Canadian society
• Men and womens fashion
started to change with the
changing of society after
WW1
• After the war society was
experiencing many changes
women got the right to vote,
new modern technologies
were being used and as a
result fashion started to
become more modern too
6. Beauty in the 20’s
Makeup
Bold
makeup
was the
staple.
Dark lips,
dark
eyes.
13. A NEW ERA BROUGHT NEW OPPORTUNITIES
(SORT OF)
Post War most women did not keep there jobs in factories and
had to go back to their job as women in the home…
ALTHOUGH
Women were able to work as nurse and teachers
These jobs paid poorly
Allowed these jobs because they seemed as the more feminine jobs
therefore it seemed only natural a women would have them
More and more women were going to universities and for the first time
the amount of women working as domestics dropped to below 20%
Most women did not become lawyers, doctors, professors or
engineers
Women who did work in business and industry held jobs as secretaries,
telephone operators, or sales clerks
14. UPSIDE & DOWNSIDE
UPSIDE DOWNSIDE
Single women were Men were paid a lot
now able to make a more then women and
better living for some workplaces were
themselves and remain not equipped for
more independent from women to work there.
men and helped lead to Making it hard for a
women having their women to make a ver y
own voice good living of f of their
job or jobs
15. THIS AFFECTED…
WOMEN:
They were now able to work more freely, frequently, and in better jobs
then before the war. There were new “female” jobs such as librar y
work, social work, and physiotherapy.
MEN:
They had to get used to women in the workplace being a more common
thing where as before it was mainly a male dominated section of life
in Canada.
16. IMPACT ON CANADIAN SOCIETY
Women becoming more regular in the Canadian
workforce had a huge impact on Canadian society.
Because it helped create the domino ef fect of women
working more and more through out the countr y,
leading up to what it is today. It was a small step in
the right direction creating a huge impact on
Canadians lives for many years to come.
17. Education
Before :
• women were not excepting for college
education
• women were seen as homemakers and don't
need much education
After :
• Education opportunities were increasing for
women
• winning the right to attend university or
college
18. Changed women's lives
•higher education means women gain more
rights in society.
• women's role in society is becoming more
and more important.
women had access
Impacts on soceity
• growing respectability of post-secondary
education and employment for women
• more and more people are more educated.
19. Work
Before :
• -Women were mainly seen as
homemakers.
•-If women worked they worked until they
were married.
• -They held traditional jobs
New :
• More and more woman were being
employed, as stenographers in business
offices and as factory workers
20. Changes for women :
• lives changed
• Society now accepted that women could be
independent and make choices for
themselves
• Attained the political equality
Both women and men had access
• men can not seek women as housekeepers
only anymore
• women gained more rights
Impacts on Canadian Society
• women started to play an important part in
Canadian Society
21.
22. The first federal election in which women were able to vote and run as candidates was
1921. In that election, four women ran for office and Agnes Campbell MacPhail (1890-
1954) made history as the first woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons.
July 1, 1920 - The Dominion Elections Act, uniform franchise is established and the right
for women to be elected to parliament is made permanent.
1921 - Mary Ellen Smith (1863-1933) is appointed to the provincial legislative Cabinet
in British Columbia. The first woman Cabinet minister in the British Empire.
1921 - The first ladies 5 pin bowling league is stated in Toronto
March 8, 1923 - Winnifred Blair, Miss Canada, is the first woman to sit on the 'floor’ of a
Canadian parliament when she attends the opening of the New Brunswick Legislature,
sitting just off to the side of the 'Throne’.
The Famous Five or The Valiant Five were five Canadian women who asked
the Supreme Court of Canada to answer the question, “Does the word ‘Persons’ in
Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?”
23.
24. March 14, 1928 - The "Famous Five", Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Irene
Parlby, Henrietta MuirEdwards and Louise McKinney, ask the Supreme Court
of Canada if the word "person" in Section 24 of the British North America Act
included persons that were female.
April 24, 1928 - The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decides in the
famous "Persons Case" that women were not "persons" who could hold public
office as Canadian senators.
October 18, 1929 - The British Privy Council reverses the decision of the
Supreme Court of Canada in the "Persons Case" and Canadian women become
"Persons" with all rights accorded to the definition of persons including the
right to sit in the Senate of Canada.
1929 - Agnes Macphail (1890-1954) is sent to Geneva, Switzerland as
Canada's first woman delegate to the League of Nations.
1930: Cairine Wilson was the first woman to be named to a senate seat .
25. • What was new about it (your topic)? How was it different than what came before?
• How did it change people's lives? upsides? downsides? (did some people not like it?)
• Who had access/who did not? (i.e. who did it affect/who not?)
• What was impact on Canadian society? explain and assess (small impact? moderate?
huge impact??)
• Women were involved in politics. Before, they were not allowed to. Woman now were
“persons” in the eyes of the law.
• Women’s lives became better because they achieved what they were asking for: right
to be involved in politics. Many men didn‘t agree because they said no woman was a
"person”. They said “person” was only referred to men.
• Over the years, woman asked the Prime Minister to appoint women into the senate.
The BNA act stated that qualified persons could receive appointment.
• This was a huge impact on the Canadian society because finally woman had a new role
and this was the beginning of a new era. Now, women are a lot more involved in
politics, and all thanks to those strong women who claimed for their rights. Men and
women are the same and have the same rights!
30. Reasons: Consumerism and advertising
Roots can be found in the industrial expansion of the 1880s
1. mass production
2. the lowering of prices
3. construction of the transcontinental
railroads national market
4. new inventions (radio, automobil)
Post-World War I American society became
increasingly standardized as automobiles,
electric appliances and mass entertainment
became available to ordinary Americans
31. Consumerism
Consumerism arised in post WW1
America
American industry needed new
market to sustain the productions of
goods.
Production had expanded through
the conflagration
Advertising industry made these
markets available, creating and
maintaining the need for a variety of
modern products and services
But encouraged to waste and
triggered
an economic downslope movement
32. Advertising in the 1920s
Advertising changed from simply
announcing to persuade public they
needed and deserved to own the product
Improving print techniques allowed publishers to
drop prices readership soared to
After the war, general circulation magazines picked
Henry Luce up on the culture of consumerism
began publishing
“Tim e ” in 1923 Advertisers hired movie stars and sports figures to
persuade
33. What type of electricity?
- 97% of all Canadian electricity in 1920’s was
hydro powered.
- Most of this power in 1921 was traded
between Canada and the U.S.
- In that same year Ontario opened the largest
power plant in the world.
- Edmonton Power installed one of the world's
first 10 MW turbo-generator, running at 3,600
rpm.
34. Electrical advancements in
1920’s
- Cooking appliances boomed in the 20’s
and 30’s because they were electrical
powered and didn’t have smoke to get
rid of.
- One of the best inventions from
electricity was the refrigerator because
food could now last longer than a
couple days.
- All of this technology was diminished when the
depression hit north America.
36. ∗ Many new inventions were built in the 20s
and changed the modern world as they knew
it
∗ These new appliances made women very
happy in these times
∗ Lots of propaganda was used
and electricity was nicknamed
“the housewife’s little helper”
∗ Pollution before electricity came
out
37. Washing Machines:
Made washing much easier and efficient
Vacuums:
Greatly reduced the amount of time spent cleaning rugs
and carpets.
Electrical Stoves and Hotplates:
Easier to cook and serve meals. Different stoves and
hotplates were invented.
39. The invention of the assembly line in 1913 by Henry Ford
meant that cars could be mass produced inexpensively
and quickly . In 1920s, Cars were finally
affordable for the public, the
Ford model T was the
benchmark in the
automotive industry
because of its mass
production and price. The
car’s price tag was less than
three hundred dollars and
came in only one color,
black.
40. 1927
1921 McLaughlin
Gray-Dort Buick
motors
1923 1928
The Plymouth Q
Doctor's Four
Coupe
1926 1929
Brooks Durant
Steam Motors
Automobil
e
41. In 1920 Canada had only 1600
km of top rated highways a
figure that increased tenfold
by the end of the decade. the
Canadian Shield and the rocky
mountains were physical
barriers that delayed the
construction of the Trans-
Canada highway. as a result
most of the better roads ran
south to the united states.
these closer north-south
connections led British
Columbia to change from
driving on the left-hand side
of the road (the British system)
to the right-hand side (the U.S
system) in 1927.
42.
43. » Can go anywhere in town
» Drive in movies, drive thru’s were created.
» Date doesn’t need to end on the porch, can end
in the backseat
44. » Life seen as an “open road”
» People are getting lazy.
» Live out of town
» LOTS of pollution!
» Lots of new jobs!
» Fast food, gas stations, auto repair shops etc.
45. » Before seatbelts were mandatory, 4283 people
died annually!
» The car is one-eighth of the populations
greenhouse gas emissions
» Bridget Driscoll was the first person to be killed
by getting hit by a car
47. April 6 1889::The National Electric
Tramway and Lighting Company Limited
was established in Victoria.
December 5 1938
BC Electric's franchise
to provide Victoria transportation
was set to expire.
48. City of Toronto places the largest
streetcar order in history!
Bombardier is well-known worldwide
as a manufacturer of aircraft,
snowmobiles, and personal watercraft.
Canada's largest city plans to replace
its aging streetcar fleet with these
next generation, low-floor vehicles.
The new streetcars will provide
improved reliability and lower
operatingcosts for the TTC.
49. Regina’s first streetcar run
took place on July 28, 1911.
Take the streetcar for 5 cents,
Monday to Saturday. The price
went up to 10 cents by 1920,
but during the depression years
the price returned to 5 cents
to encourage usage.
The streetcars were very noisy,
but attempts to replace
the streetcars with diesel buses
failed during the war years
because rubber and
gas were rationed.
51. What was new about telephones? How was it
different than what came before?
• Before the telephone was a telegraph. It was a device that used smoke
signals to transmit messages
• With the telephone you could now use your voice to communicate to
other people without the use of signals
52. How did it change people's lives?
• People could now contact each other faster than ever before
• Telephone lines were shared by many neighbors so there
could be eavesdroppers (Became a big source of
entertainment)
53. Who had access/who did not?
• The first dial telephone appeared in Toronto in 1924
• The handset with a mouthpiece and earphone first came into
use in 1927
• When the telephone was first introduced it could only be
afforded by the rich
• By the 1920’s the telephone had become a standard
household appliance
54. What was impact on Canadian society?
• Now Canadians could simply use their phone and ask the operator to
speak to whoever they wanted as long as they had a telephone in their
area
• It had a large impact on society, and made business more efficient
• It led to instant communications around the world and even led to the
Internet
55. Urbanization
The act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on
the characteristics of a city
By Robyn Willmer
60. A New Idea
The 1920’s sparked a revolution in the
way music was played, in New Orleans,
black musicians started to use ‘improper
musical technique’, by improvising, and
abandoned almost all of the rules of
classical music, to create Jazz.
Unlike classical music Jazz was loud, fast,
and exciting, and many Jazz musicians
didn’t read music, or understand
traditional musical theory.
The previous generation didn’t appreciate
the fact that Jazz pushed the boundaries!
Jazz Orchestra’s were assembled to suit
the likes of composers, they would range
from as little as 3, to as many as 20 or 30
musicians!
61. Pictured below:
Eddie Lang – A 1920’s Jazz guitarist
Changing times
The Idea that only a few
musicians could make a big
sound, was something that
originally spawned from the
early blues music of the
Mississippi Delta region!
When adapted to the musical
styling's of the new Jazz sound,
the idea of smaller musical
groups became popular because
of the fact that it was easier to
fill dance halls, and earn money
from performing, when there
were less people!
62. Effect on Culture
The Jazz era was one of the first examples of youth
counter-culture, and rebellion! Before the 1920’s,
teenagers did everything by the law, and followed
their parents advice on everything. The 1920’s saw
the first instances of recreational drugs, and music
influencing the way things were done. Women cut
their hair short and began openly smoking and
drinking, and listening to Jazz.
Many Jazz musicians in Harlem used Heroin,
Cocaine, Marijuana, and drank excessive amounts of
alcohol before performing. When paired with the
suggestive dancing seen in a typical Jazz venue, the
negative connotations created a subculture that
parents, and churches demonized, claiming it was
the music of Satan!
63. Dance in the 1920’s
By Jessica Duncan and Robyn Willmer
69. Fun!
People did many things for fun in the 20’s. Some of
these things include:
-Listening to the radio
-Visiting with friends
-Dancing
-Drinking
-Playing cards
-Reading
-Listening to live music
-Going to the beach
-Watching silent films/movies
70. Fun Continued
-Going for drives
-Doing art
-Watching sporting events
-Playing musical instruments
-Spending time with families
-Throwing parties
-Crossword Puzzles
-Board Games
71. Recreation!
Recreation was becoming more popular in
the 1920’s. Some recreational activities people
enjoyed were:
-Walking
-Cycling
-Dancing
-Sports
73. • The growth of Canadian nationalism around the First World War
promoted Canadian production and other aspects of the industry.
• At the beginning of the decade, silent films used to exaggerate
actions and they were colorless. It had a low price. And it was for all
social classes.
• In 1922 The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association (CMPDA)
was formed. Although Canadian in name, the association consisted of
the Canadian offices of the American distribution majors and was in
essence a branch of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors
Association of America. For the purposes of calculating domestic
gross revenue, American distributors have always included Canada in
their bottom line. In 1923, American-born N.L. Nathanson, owner of the
Toronto-based Famous Players Canadian Corporation (FPCC), a
company in turn owned by Adolf Zukor's Paramount Pictures, bought
all 53 of the Canadian-owned Allen Bros. theatres, making FPCC the
largest owner in Canada. Then through his holding company, Zukor
acquired direct control of FPCC.
74. • The most successful producer was Ernest SHIPMAN, who had already
established his reputation as a promoter in the US when he returned to
Canada in 1919 with his author/actress wife, Nell SHIPMAN, to
produce Back to God's Country in Calgary.
• During the next 3 years Shipman established companies in several
Canadian cities and made 6 more features based on Canadian
novels and filmed not in studios, as was then common, but on
location. Though these films - God's Crucible (1920), Cameron of the
Royal Mounted (1921), The Man from Glengarry (1922) and The Rapids
(1922) - were not as profitable as his first, they were not failures.
• In 1927, Warner released The Jazz Singer, the first sound feature to
include limited talking sequences.
75. • 1913
Evangeline
• 1919
Back to God's Country
• 1920
The Great Shadow
• 1924
Big Timber
Blue Water
76. History of basketball in Canada
Basket ball was invented by a
Canadian P.E teacher in Springfield
Massachusetts in 1891
77. Basketball in Canada
• Even though it took place in the United States, at least ten of the players
who participated in the first-ever game were university students from
Quebec.
• The National Basketball Association also has origins in Canada.
• The NBA's first game was played in Toronto over fifty years ago.
• Canada has participated in Olympic Games since 1936 and in the World
Championships since 1954.
78. Canadian basketball teams
in the 20’s
• Edmonton Commercial Graduates (Grad's), a group of Canadian women
who dominated the sport in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. the Grad's played 522
games at home and abroad, against both women's and men's teams. The
Grad's accomplished a record-breaking winning streak of 147 games and
throughout their basketball tenure won a remarkable 502 times.
• Toronto Huskies played New York Knickerbockers and lost 66-68
• The Toronto Raptors
• Vancouver Grizzlies
• The Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies joined the NBA. Becoming
the first non-U.S. cities to join the league since the Toronto Huskies were
one-year members of the BAA.
82. Aviation
On the first World War, aviation suffered several
changes and advances due to the fact that they were
very important on the fight; On the twenties, this
technology was used as a transportation method, first for
mail but then for passengers. It was in this decade that
the world saw aviation take it first steps through the
commercial and international use, and also long distance
flights such as the flight across the Atlantic that was
performed in 1919 by Captain John Alcock and
Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, departing from
newfoundland.
83. Important events
June 1919: Fist cross-Atlantic flight departing from
newfoundland.
August 1919: First flight over the Rockies
October 1920: First flight across Canada
April 1924: Royal Canadian Air force was born
1926: Western Canada Airways established in
Winnipeg
June 1928: First woman, who was Canadian, flew
across the Atlantic, from Harbour Grace to Wales.
84. Changes in people’s lives
The biggest change aviation brought to the
Canadian society was the way it revolutionized
mailing and people transportation; the mail could
now go through the air, which was faster, and it
was on this decade that the first airport with a
waiting room and structure to receive passengers
was established, making it possible to people to
travel faster, which made intercontinental daily
travels possible.
85. Images
Picture below: The Boeing B-2 Mail Plane at Vancouver in th
Razorback” model being shown by The Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre
87. • From 1920 the U.S.A. began a prohibition of alcohol
and lasted until 1933.
88. • Smuggling alcohol become part of everyday life.
Salmon Trawlers from British Columbia, speed boats from
Ontario both transported booze as fast as they could.
89. • Rum-running was extremely profitable, Canadians
looked on it with tolerance and admiration for the way
they flouted the U.S. authorities.
90. • One of the more famous bootleggers was Rocco
Perri. He was the leading figure of organized crime
in Southern Ontario.
• A famous rum-running boat was the Nellie J. Blanks.
It was the last rum runner seized off Atlantic
Canada.
92. Canadian Military after WW1
Canada avoided overseas military commitments,
either to Britain or the League of Nations. By the
mid-1930s, the government began slowly to
modernize and re-equip the armed forces. The
defense of Canada’s seacoasts was its top
priority.
93. Canada Between the Wars
Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s,
the Canadian governments kept military
spending to a minimum. Many people believed
that the First World War had been the ‘war to
end all wars’. This view, combined with
budgetary restraints, led Canada to reduce its
military forces to fewer than 5000 full-time
military personnel. For a time, the Royal
Canadian Navy consisted of only two ocean-
going ships.
94. Canada Between the Wars
(continued)
The Royal Canadian Air Force, created in 1924,
performed mainly civilian duties such as aerial
mapping and forestry protection. There was little
pay and even less equipment for part-time military
reservists. During the economic catastrophe
brought by the Great Depression of the 1930s,
Canadians worried more about their jobs and
families than the state of the armed forces.
Without obvious enemies, the government decided
not to spend scarce resources on the military.
95. 1920-30s
ARCHITECTURE
Social Studies 11 – Power point
James Letkeman -Block 7
1920's architecture was characterised by improved standards in residential homes,
commercial buildings and also the proliferation of the skyscraper.
By the mid-1920s the post-war culture of the industrialized world had started a series of
unified styles which affected design and architecture.
There was widespread interest in new sources of inspiration and architecture began to glorify
new and/or enhanced technological marvels.
Designs were simplified; composition more geometric and there was a general trend towards
abstraction.
96. CHANGING The face of ARCHITECTURE
The fallout of the First World War resulted in additional experimentation and ideas throughout the
world
Skyscrapers became more common due to the development of steel, reinforced concrete, water
pumps and most importantly the enhancements of the commercial elevator.
Large urban centers experimented with Art Deco and Modernism through their mass development of
skyscrapers. These buildings were influenced by the changing culture of the society and were
considered by many to be visual representations of expressions such as the modern jazz and music
movement America was experiencing at the time.
97. EARLY 1920s in CANADA
Victorian styles of architecture dominated in Canada from the mid-nineteenth century up to the First
World War.
After the First World War, Canadian nationalism encouraged attempts to create unique Canadian
architecture, distinct from that of Britain and the United States.
While the United States embraced Art Deco, Canadian architects returned to the Middle Ages for
inspiration
Gothic architecture had become closely associated with Canada
A distinct Canadian style was the Château Style, also known as Railway Gothic.
For public and commercial buildings, classical forms remained the style of choice .However, by the
1930s the classic styles were simplified almost to the point of abstraction
98. MODERNIZING CANADIAN ARCHITECTURE
Toronto closely followed American cities such as Chicago and
New York.
Toronto's influence on other Canadian cities meant that Western
Canadian cities, particularly Vancouver, fallowed Toronto’s
architectural path.
Modern homes of the 1920’s in America upgraded the standard of
low cost housing and made other housing more affordable.
Houses were created to obtain beauty of design, functionality,
practicality and convenience while considering the price.
The bungalow in British Columbia became widespread in local
house design, and styles of housing such as Arts and crafts,
and other distinctly western North America styles also became
common.
100. What was new about it?
• The Group of Seven had paintings that
broke with traditional Canadian art
• These artists were in tune with the new
post war national confidence, instead of
realistic standard styles
• Used bold, broad, and brilliant colours
101. • Some of the group of seven’s work was
criticized however they gained a huge
acceptance at the end of the 1920s
• It was the same with Emily Carr, she had
very little recognition for her work but
when her art was shown at the National
Museum in Ottawa this all changed
102. What was the impact on Canadian
Society?
• Art in the 1920s and early 1930s in
particular the group of seven was
extremely influential
• Their legacy still resonates to this day
• There is a university named after Emily
Carr
• Made Canadians look and appreciate art in
a different way
103. Emily Carr
• Best known painter on Pacific coast
• Her paintings were scenes of Aboriginal
life and West Coast forests
• Wrote Klee Wyck stories about her life
with BC’s Aboriginal people
105. Discovery of
Penicillin
• Canadian bacteriologist Alexander
Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928
• Fleming discovered it by accident
• Mold had formed on his experiments
– Exuded penicillin
106. What is
Penicillin?
• Certain collections of antibiotics
• They eliminate infectious bacteria
• Known in short as PCN
107. Effects of Penicillin
On The World
• General
– Heralded as a “miracle drug
– Could cure people of once-fatal infections
• World War II
– War forced companies to find a way to
produce on an industrial scale
– Especially effective on gangrene
– Skyrocketed survival rates
108. So… Why do they call them the ‘roaring’
20s?
n what ways did society, culture, technology and the economy
“roar”??? Make a list together and discuss.
hinking of what you’ve seen here and your readings, who do you
think ‘missed’ the roar of the 20s? Look at your roar list to help you
think about the question… then discuss.
hat do you think are the three most important changes of the 1920s?
Brainstorm. Choose 3. Be prepared to defend your choices.
It was rare for a woman to be a doctor or a lawyer and if they were it was done so grudgingly. Men were still very sexist when it came to women in the workforce so it made it hard for women to hold important professions within the workforce.
Some workplaces did not have women's washrooms because they were made for men, and had not been adapted for women because they did not used to be there.
Although still not very much, bad pay, and working conditions though it was a step in the right direction
Helped lead into the persons case: supported the argument that women were in fact persons.
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The other activities that a couple does on a date are different, as well. They have more possibilities. They can easily go meet friends across town at a diner. They may even eat their dinner food inside the car at a drive-inn. And after they eat at a drive-inn, where might they go, but a drive-inn movie theater. Parents became worried of what their child was doing on these dates, as the car can take them anywhere.
With the invention of the car, life can now be seen as an “open road”. People can go anywhere they want, whenever they want. They no longer have to stay in one town for their whole life, they can move freely. The better the car became, the more lazy people became. People now drive their car even though it would be a 5 minute walk, and they came to rely on it too much. People can now easily live outside of town, and drive to work. As more and more people do this, you start to see more and more congestion on the road going to and from work. New jobs due to the impact of the automobile such as fast food, city/highway construction, state patrol/police, convenience stores, gas stations, auto repair shops, auto shops, etc. allow more employment for the world's growing population.
-Population of Western Canada grew in early 1900’s
-People left rural part of town to find more job opportunities. -Jewish went to the city because they were not allowed to own land in Europe. -Urban life more familiar to them -Fresh start
-Wealthy: lived in luxury, usually had servants, electricity, hot water heating, running water, -Poor: shacks, lack of clean water, no proper sewers, more health problems.
-Winnipeg expanded from 42 340 to 136 035 people in 1911 -Called itself “Chicago of the North”
-No more tight corsets, long skirts or puffy sleeves -Flappers: Short hair, close fitting hats, short skirts -First appeared in 1926 on Broadway -Sheiks : Men with ukuleles, bell bottom trousers and racoon jackets
-Tango, Charleston, Foxtrot, Waltz, Camel Walks, Square Dancing, Lindy Hop -Tango considered scandalous because of physical contact -Charleston introduced in 1923 Afro-American Broadway show “Running Wild”
-New up tempo music styles -Young people preferred new fad (Traditional old people disapprove) -Big part of people’s entertainment centre
-Used to be only wealthy people traveling -More money being made more people traveling -Renaissance age, fat = wealthy -1920 ’s, winter tan = wealthy (could afford to go away to a sunny destination in the winter)
-Cruise ships and air travel became popular later in the 20 ’s -Still only for the very wealthy
-In 1928, Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin by accident. He had found that a mold had been forming on his experiments, and was surprised to discover that the mold was really exuding an antibacterial agent that could kill a plethora of harmful bacteria.
Known by the initialism PCN, Penicillin refers to collections of antibiotics that eliminate bacteria that cause infection. These antibiotics are from a fungi called Penicillium, and are used to prevent or treat infections caused by bacteria.
Penicillin was heralded as a “miracle drug”, as it had the ability to cure people of bacterial infections that were previously fatal. It was so widely loved that people even made comics about it as you can see. When World War Two rolled around Penicillin was finally produced on an industrial scale, was found to be highly effective on gangrene. Penicillin would keep wounds from being infected before surgeons could get to it, and survival rates skyrocketed.