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Mar 6, 2014 · Nov. 12, 1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opens The downtown hockey arena opens with a game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Chicago Blackhawks. The Leafs lose 2-1.
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Oct 23, 2010 · In Toronto Since 1918: An Illustrated History, James Lemon provides some gruelling statistics from the 1930s: in 1931, 17% of Torontonians were unemployed. Two years later, the census reported ...
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In the first half of the 20th century, anti-Semitism was a socially acceptable, inseparable part of mainstream Canadian society. Jewish Canadianswere relegated to second-class citizenship. Businesses refused to hire them, universities restricted their enrolment, and entire neighbourhoods prohibited the sale or rental of housing to Jews. During the ...
In 1933, Toronto was overwhelmingly British. The Orange Order was a major social force in the city. The organization promoted a British loyalism that was both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. Jews were the largest minority group in Toronto and found themselves subject to verbal and physical attacks. Tensions between Jews and Anglo-Canadians were esp...
On 14 August 1933, the mostly Jewish Harbord Playground baseball team took the field at Christie Pits against local rivals St. Peter’s. Provocateurs unaffiliated with either team took to the field waving an improvised swastika banner. That evening, they returned to paint the swastika alongside the words “Hail Hitler” on the roof of the clubhouse. T...
Two days later, on 16 August, supporters of both factions arrived in force for the series’ follow-up game. Fights erupted in the stands and were broken up by police. As the game ended, members of a local anti-Semitic group flew a homemade swastika banner to cries of “Heil Hitler.” Violence broke out. The Jews battled members of the Swastika Club an...
No one was killed during the riot. The following day, dozens of the walking wounded trickled into Toronto’s hospitals to receive medical attention for injuries of varying severity. Only a few arrests were made, speaking to the police’s indifference towards the persecution of minorities. Two people were charged, but only Jack Roxborough was convicte...
Certain people have interpreted the song “Bobcaygeon” from The Tragically Hipas being a partial reference to the Christie Pits riots. In 2008, Heritage Toronto unveiled a plaque to commemorate the riot at Christie Pits. The events were also explored in the Canadian Journeys gallery at The Canadian Museum of Human Rights.
Jul 11, 2013 · In 1935, a protest against conditions in the camps culminated in the Regina Riot. This was Canada’s most violent episode of the Depression. One policeman was killed, dozens of men were injured and 130 people were arrested. It was followed by the similar Bloody Sunday confrontation in Vancouver on 19 June 1938.
August 29 – James D. Stewart becomes premier of Prince Edward Island for the second time, replacing Walter Lea. November 12 – Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto. September 29 – Striking coal miners clash with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the Estevan riot.
Feb 7, 2006 · The Statute of Westminster is a British law that was passed on 11 December 1931. It was Canada’s all-but-final achievement of independence from Britain. It enacted recommendations from the Balfour Report of 1926, which had declared that Britain and its Dominions were constitutionally “equal in status.”. The Statute of Westminster gave ...
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A Montreal soup kitchen in 1931 The worldwide Great Depression of the early 1930s was a social and economic shock that left millions of Canadians unemployed, hungry and often homeless. Few countries were affected as severely as Canada during what became known as the "Dirty Thirties", due to Canada's heavy dependence on raw material and farm exports, combined with a crippling Prairies drought ...
