Defining Moments
By: Haleema Raja
The Battle of Passchendaele
General Currie
Conditions
Passchendaele Canadian Memorial
The Memorial's inscription reads:
THE CANADIAN CORPS IN OCT.- NOV. 1917 ADVANCED ACROSS THIS VALLEY - THEN A TREACHEROUS MORASS - CAPTURED AND HELD THE PASSCHENDAELE RIDGE
Why it was important?
"It was really a miserable day, quite miserable. We were lying practically on the bed of the river which had been shelled all to pieces and it was just a marshy bog … our company headquarters got blown to pieces … before we started off … and the battle hadn't even begun."
Alex Strachan, 43rd Battalion, war diary of 43rd Battalion. RG 9, series III-D-3, vol. 4938, file 434.
Flappers
Even today many movies that take place in the 1920's have flappers in them, a popular film example would be "The Great Gatsby".
BELOW IS PROPAGANDA FOR FLAPPERS
Clara Bow
Louis Brooks
Flappers on a Car
FLQ Crisis
On October 1970, members of the FLQ kidnap 2 Quebec politicians:
James Cross (Trade Commissioner)
Pierre Laporte (Minister of Labour)
James Cross was kidnapped but then later released after 60 days as a result of negotiations with the kidnappers.
Pierre Laporte was kidnapped and later murdered, who ever was directly related to his death were arrested and jailed for 1st degree murder.
The FLQ demanded that the government release 21 imprisoned FLQ members and publicize their manifesto.
Protesters holding up signs in Quebec
"Just Watch Me"
Paul Rose
What was the FLQ?
- Montreal Stock Exchange bombing
- Kidnapping of government officials
RESULT
Syrian Refugees
PLAN
Citations:
THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE
Battle of Passchendaele. (n.d.). Retrieved January 14, 2016, from http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-passchendaele/
FLQ CRISIS
The October Crisis. (n.d.). Retrieved January 14, 2016, from http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP16CH1PA4LE.html
Bloc Québécois. (n.d.). Retrieved January 14, 2016, from http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bloc-quebecois/
FLAPPERS
The New, Modern Woman: The Flapper. (n.d.). Retrieved January 14, 2016, from http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm
The History of the Flapper, Part 1: A Call for Freedom. (n.d.). Retrieved January 14, 2016, from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-of-the-flapper-part-1-a-call-for-freedom-11957978/?no-ist
SYRIAN REFUGEES
Syrian refugees. (n.d.). Retrieved January 14, 2016, from https://www.liberal.ca/realchange/syrian-refugees/