Laurier Era 1900 Canada


	The Laurier Era: 1900 Canada (Laurier was in power 1896-1911) The Laurier Era in Canadian History is also commonly referred to as The Great Transformation. The true-life story of the Nicholsons of Richmond, Quebec in Tighsolas:House of Light, revealed through family letters, photographs, illustrations, and rare, even unique documents (over 700 pages and 600 pictures and including many hard-to-find public domain articles and postcard illustrations for background ) is a clear snapshot of Canadian life; farm, town and big city; in the era of Nickelodeons, Model T Fords, the militant brick-throwing suffragettes and corsets and BIG Hats. This website reveals how EVERY family is part of history - whether they know it or not. To fully make sense of the crazy, tumultuous times we live in, and to think critically about the changes happening around us, it is important to understand 100 years ago, an era the BBC refers to as The Birth of Now. A LIST FOR THE LAURIER ERA:One Family's Expenses:Complete House Accounts TIGHSOLAS Homepage:A Canadian Family in 1910 Click below for Tighsolas Index Pages with all articles Fashion: Fashion is connected to women's happiness in more ways than the obvious one. Transportation: aeroplanes, automobiles; trains, and those 'hotels' on water, ocean-liners. Titanic! Home and Hearth: the rich, the middle-class, and the very poor. Family Life: The world was changing, big time, and everyone was sensing the possibilities. Love, Relationships and Courtship: The more things change, the more they stay the same. The World of Work (Men's and Women's): No job was out of bounds for women, except…. Medicine: Still Victorian in practice…"The King of Death" was always lurking around the corner. Pioneering on the Prairie: "This is young man's country."...still all kinds of folk went out there Film and Entertainment and Music: people couldn't get enough of the new 5 cent picture shows. Why? Politics: waves of change call for big ideas, but how to keep people in their proper place? Women's Suffrage and the fight for rights: suffragists, suffragettes, 'new women' and more Education: educating 'new Canadians, while still giving 'old' Canadians the advantage Inventions: with the car, phone, and aeroplane came many other peripheral inventions Outside Links to Web Pages about the Laurier Era Canada: A People's History CBC Website. (SALES) Episode 11 covers this era. The documentary can be ordered and also found at most public libraries. McCord Museum: Montreal in the period. Montreal was the most important city in Canada in that era. During that era the Canadian West was transformed too. Canadiana.org The United States in the Era. Here's an American Cultural History link to a website that documents the 1910 era: Here's a link to Digital History, the Making of Modern America. Keywords. 1910 Canada; Canada 1910; Turn of the last Century family; Women's (woman) Suffrage Canada; Women's Rights Canada. 1900 Canada 1900; the Canadian Railroad; Silent Movies; Edison Era; Early Education Canada; Mating Rituals Canada 1900, 1910; dating, courtship 1900, 1910; middle class Canada history; working women, woman suffrage; women and work 1900, 1910; wheat boom; child welfare movement; temperance movement; Canadian family history; Edwardian era Canada; Edwardian fashion; Coco Chanel; D. W. Griffith; Mack Sennett; Henry Ford; Early automobiles; automobile history; car history; family letters; teachers and teaching history Canada; the life of teachers; Royal Commission on Industrial Training and Technical Education; Macdonald College; McGill Normal School; Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal; Griffintown; St. Henri. Montreal History; Isle of Lewis Scots in Canada; Uig Carnish; Canadian work history; Canadian social history; Quebec Social History; Quebec History; 1910 entertainment; canadian women's history 1900, 1910; Montreal history; Eastern Townships history; English Anglo Montreal history; Dominion Park, Montreal; social history Canada; industrializing Montreal; City of Montreal history; Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Canadian politics 1900, 1910; history of farming Canada; history Saskatchewan; history of flight; flying; aeroplane's; Titanic; manual training movement; inventions 1900, 1910; disease 1900.