Timeline Of Quebec History (1900 To 1930)
Timeline of Quebec history
1867 to 1899
1900 to 1930
1931 to 1959
This section of the
Timeline of Quebec history
concerns the events between the beginning of the 20th century and the Westminster statute.
1900s
1900
-
Quebec general election
:
Liberals
win.
1900
-
Alphonse Desjardins
founds the first
credit union
in North America on
December 6
in
Lévis
.
1904
-
Henri Bourassa
pleads in favour of bilingualism in the institutions of the federal government.
1904
-
Quebec general election
:
Liberals
win.
1906
-
Ernest Ouimet
introduces cinema to Montreal with his
Ouimetoscope
.
1907
- The
Montreal Chamber of Commerce
founds the
cole des hautes tudes commerciales de Montral
.
1907
- The
Quebec Bridge
, under construction, collapses.
1908
-
Quebec general election
:
Liberals
win.
1910s
1910
-
Henri Bourassa
founds
Le Devoir
(newspaper).
1912
- The
Parliament of Canada
extends the northern boundary of
Quebec
to
Hudson Strait
by passing
The Boundaries Extension Act
.
1912
-
Ontario
limits the teaching in French to grades one and two of elementary school with
Regulation 17
.
1912
-
Quebec general election
:
Liberals
win.
1914
- Beginning of
First World War
.
1916
- English becomes the only authorized language of instruction in
Manitoba
. The province's sizeable French-speaking population is forced to attend English schools until
1970
.
1916
-
Quebec general election
:
Liberals
win.
1917
- There are riots in
Quebec
as the federal government enforces
conscription
. See
Conscription Crisis of 1917
.
1918
- Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec
Joseph-Napolon Francoeur
presents a motion demanding the independence of Quebec.
1918
-
Lionel Groulx
, becomes the first
priest
to publicly denounce the injustices against French speakers. He denounces the unilingual English face of
Montreal
, the absence of bilingual
coins
and
bank notes
, and the absence of French in
Ottawa
, the federal capital.
1918
- Women win the right to vote in Canadian federal elections. All provinces follow suit by
1922
except
Quebec
, which does not give women the right to vote in provincial elections until
1940
.
1919
- On May 8, the branch of
Universit Laval
built in Montreal in 1878 becomes autonomous and is renamed
Universit de Montral
.
1919
-
Quebec general election
:
Liberals
win.
1920s
1920
-
Marie-Anne Houde
is found guilty of murder of her 10 year-old step-daughter
Aurore Gagnon
in a trial that attracted public attention.
1921
- The
Klu Klux Klan
establishes itself in Montreal. The group is believed to be behind many criminal fires that destroyed religious institutions.
1922
-
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
engineers the first prototype of a
snowmobile
, the Snowdog. The first fully operational unit will be assembled in
1935
.
1922
-
Montreal
radio station
CKAC
begins broadcasting, the first radio station in
Quebec
.
1923
-
Quebec general election
:
Liberals
win.
1925
- The
Banque canadienne nationale
is created out of the merger of the
Banque d'Hochelaga
and the
Banque nationale
.
1927
-
Quebec general election
:
Liberals
win.
1927
- The British
Privy Council
fixes the border between
Labrador
and
Quebec
in Newfoundland's favour, without the assent of the Quebec parliament. To this day, official Quebec maps reflect Quebec's territorial claim.
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1927
-
April 1
: by virtue of a new law, members of the
Legislative Assembly
no longer need to resign and stand for re-election in a
by-election
when they are named cabinet ministers.
1928
- The British
Privy Council
decides that women in Canada are legal "persons".
1929
- October stock market crash on
Wall Street
heralds the start of the
Great Depression
.
1930s
Timeline of Quebec history
1867 to 1899
1900 to 1930
1931 to 1959
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