1924 in Canada explained

Events from the year 1924 in Canada.

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See main article: 1924 in art and 1924 in literature.

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See also

Historical documents

House banking committee decides government should have audited Home Bank before it failed, and clients have moral claim for redress[5]

Immigration pamphlet calls Canadian climate "particularly suited to the white race" in "a British country, with British customs and ideals"[6]

Kiuga hereditary chief describes inequalities since 1924 imposition of elective council system on First Nations[7]

Metis man's memories of buffalo hunts and 1885 resistance[8]

Alberta Presbyterians object to undemocratic process for union with Methodist and Congregational churches[9]

Lethal smallpox epidemic in Windsor, Ont. stopped by vaccination[10]

"Swoile" (seal), "insides" (underwear), "tizzie" (dry cough), "skipper" (youngest son), "wellaway" (rich) and other Labrador lingo[11]

Professor of English speaks on feeling sorry for ourselves[12]

Photo: Arctic traveller's snapshot of Inuit dancing in "Victoria Land" (Victoria Island), Northwest Territories[13]

Film: sailing and baseball - on ice[14]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: King George V The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 4 December 2022.
  2. Web site: 1924 – the History of Metropolitan Vancouver.
  3. Web site: The Great Teams . 2009-06-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100812064236/http://www.histori.ca/minutes/lp.do?id=13113 . 2010-08-12 .
  4. Web site: Félicité Angers (Laure Conan) The Canadian Encyclopedia . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca . 30 January 2021.
  5. https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1403_2_1/20?r=0&s=1 "Eleventh Report"
  6. Government of Canada, "Canada; The New Homeland" (1924). Accessed 29 April 2020
  7. https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/royal-commission-aboriginal-peoples/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=209 Testimony of Harvey Longboat
  8. http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/27413 "Fleury, Patrice"
  9. Letter of D.G. McQueen and 43 others (for The Presbyterian Church Association - Alberta Branch; February 4, 1924). Accessed 29 April 2020 https://presbyterianarchives.ca/2017/11/03/the-life-of-rev-d-g-mcqueen/ (click on McQueen of Edmonton and scroll down to "memorandum")
  10. https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-HSS-1086256D_V3_N6&R=DC-HSS-1086256D_V3_N6 "Smallpox at Windsor"
  11. Fred P. Carleton, "Notes of the Labrador Dialect" Among the Deep-Sea Fishers, Vol. XXI, No. 4 (January 1924), pgs. 138-9. Accessed 29 April 2020
  12. Bernard K. Sandwell, "On Being Sorry for Ourselves" The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 31-44. Accessed 29 April 2020
  13. Knud Rasmussen, "Eskimo Dance Ritual" (1924). Accessed 24 May 2020
  14. British Pathé, "On The Wings Of The Wind" and "Baseball On Ice" (1924). Accessed 27 July 2020