1920-1930
Toronto (Mohawk for “The Narrows”)
Vancouver (originating) from Coevorden,
the original family name of Captain George
Vancouver = van Coeverden)
Agnes MacPhail:
first women to become a
Member of Parliament (MP)
In Canada (1921-1935)
Cairine Wilson:
first women to become a
Senator in Canada (1930-1962)
Gertrude Stein
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chrysler Building
1928
Felix the Cat
Charlie Chaplin
Ella Fitzgerald
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
The Cotton Club, New York
The Savoy Ballroom, New York
Babe Ruth
Vancouver Millionaires, 1911-1926
Aboriginal People
in the 1920s:
Residential Schools,
1831-1996
Aboriginal People in the 1920s:
Potlatch Banned in 1884;
Dan Cranmer (Kwakwakwa'wakw) held an
illegal potlatch in 1921 (resistance) on Village Island
The Poor (mostly racialized minorities) in the 1920s