The Roaring Twenties

Why were times booming? • Economic prosperity after the war –People moving into cities for work (factories, finance (banks), transportation (bus drivers etc.) –Wages going UP! –People buying on CREDIT for the first time

Why were times booming? • New technological developments:

The Car!

The Telephone!

The Radio!

Plus toasters… …washing machines…

…vacuum cleaners…

In Canada… • We were listening to American programs on the radio • Rural people less isolated (radios, telephones) • Rural people could get goods to urban markets (cheap cars/trucks) • Life was easier, things got done faster, which all equalled:

More Leisure Time and More Money $$$$$$$$$$$

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Sports in Canada

• Lionel Conacher won – – – –

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A Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens Played Triple A baseball in Toronto Was a premiere lacrosse player, AND Was instrumental in a Toronto Argonaut Grey Cup win in 1921!!

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• The Edmonton “Grads” won the world championship in women’s basketball for 17 years straight!!

Sports in Canada

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• Tom Longboat, an Aboriginal runner, won the Boston Marathon in 1907 • In the 1920s he was unable to achieve his former running success • Victim of racism throughout his life

Music

• Jazz, jazz, jazz • Bix Beiderbecke and his Gang

Arts in Canada • The Group of Seven – Remember Frederick Varley from WWI? – Bold, beautiful and totally non-realistic – Critics hated it for the most part – About Canadian landscape for first time

Movies • For the first time Canadians had time and $$ to go to movies! • And, for the first time, there WERE movies!!

Movies • Canada’s Sweetheart: • Mary Pickford was one of most famous Canadian movie actresses – in the silent movies – won an Academy award

Fads • Like goldfish swallowing • Marathon dance contents, and… • Flagpole sitting

And Fashion Women • bobbed hair • Shorter skirts • “Skinny” dresses, feathers, scarves • Women smoked!

Innovations and Technology • Air Travel – After war, fighter pilots wanted to keep flying! – Stunt pilots – Bush pilots – Post Office pilots for remote regions – 1927 – first passenger services

Innovations and Technology • Discovery of Insulin – Prior to 1920s, diabetes meant blindness, limb amputations, death – 1920 – 22: Dr. Frederick Banting and assistant Charles Best developed insulin serum – used laboratory dogs

Innovations and Technology • Nobel Prize, Medicine – Banting co-winner of the Nobel Prize for discovery of insulin – greatly impacted the treatment of diabetes around world