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1928 in Canada

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1928
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Canada

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Events from the year 1928 in Canada.

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Historical documents

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Supreme Court's negative decision on whether women can be appointed to Senate[6]

Emily Murphy leads Famous Five in response to Supreme Court decision against women entering Senate[7]

Influenza epidemic among Northwest Territories Indigenous people "spread[s] like wildfire" from Mackenzie delta to northern Alberta[8]

MP Agnes Macphail calls for federal department of peace because people lack "confidence in war or in preparedness for war"[9]

Guide to social hygiene combines public health and eugenics[10]

Manitoba MLA explains trials of unemployment for single men and new immigrants, especially after crop failure in her province[11]

Statements and petition from Quebec call on government to give settling "sons of our large families" priority over immigrants[12]

M.J. Coldwell would prioritize settling "those who through[...]damage to crops and mortgage companies had gone to the wall"[13]

Anglican bishop of Saskatchewan calls immigration "the foreignization of Canada [with the] aggression of the Church of Rome"[14]

Backing "Protestantism, Racial Purity, Gentile Economic Freedom" etc., KKK constitution adopted by Imperial Kloncilium in Regina[15]

Film clip: Brief segment of film on Coast Salish people shows Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) master weaver Skwetsiya (Mrs. Harriet Johnnie) making hat[16]

Photographer Ansel Adams and other Sierra Club members' first experience of Canadian Rockies[17]

References

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  1. ^ "King George V | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Canadian aviation history". Canadian Geographic. Sep–Oct 2000. Archived from the original on 2010-08-06. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  3. ^ Herstory 2012. Coteau Books. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-55050-454-5.
  4. ^ Fred Langan (March 19, 2018). "Philanthropist Jacqueline Desmarais nurtured the opera world". Globe and Mail. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
  5. ^ Archbishop Adam Exner, OMI, dies at age 94
  6. ^ "No. 9; In the Supreme Court of Canada" (April 24, 1928), In the Privy Council; No. 121 of 1928; On Appeal from the Supreme Court of Canada[....], pgs. 38-9. Accessed 14 May 2020
  7. ^ Nellie L. McClung, The Stream Runs Fast; My Own Story (1945), pgs. 187-8. Accessed 14 May 2020
  8. ^ Associated Press, "Epidemic Flu Killing Indians" Spokane (Washington) Chronicle (July 26, 1928). Accessed 14 May 2020
  9. ^ Agnes Campbell Macphail, "Proposal for International Peace Department" (excerpt from Hansard). Accessed 13 May 2020
  10. ^ Canadian Social Hygiene Council, Tell Your Children the Truth; A Social Hygiene Booklet for Parents (1928). Accessed 10 April 2020
  11. ^ Testimony of Edith Rogers (April 19, 1928), [House] Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International Relations [on] the question of Insurance against Unemployment, Sickness and Invalidity, pgs. 41-4. Accessed 21 October 2020
  12. ^ "Productions" [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization; Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence, pgs. 813-18. Accessed 21 October 2020
  13. ^ "Traffic in Immigration Permits by Members of Federal House Alleged" The (Regina) Leader (November 24, 1927), read into record during testimony of M.J. Coldwell (May 15, 1928), [House] Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization, pg. 678. Accessed 21 October 2020
  14. ^ G.E. Lloyd, "The Building of the Nation; Natural Increase and Immigration" (unpaginated; July 26, 1928). Accessed 14 May 2020
  15. ^ "Constitution of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" (March 1928). Accessed 14 May 2020
  16. ^ Harlan Smith, "Film clip on Coast Salish weaving" (1928), Canadian Museum of History. Accessed 17 April 2022
  17. ^ Ruth Teiser (interviewer), "The Sierra and Other Ranges" Conversations with Ansel Adams (1972, 1974, 1975), pg. 279, and "Helen M. LeConte; Reminiscences of LeConte Family Outings, the Sierra Club, and Ansel Adams" pgs. 22-3 (document pgs. 140-1), in Sierra Club Women (1976, 1977). Accessed 14 May 2020