Americanization Canadian Nationalism
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AMERICANIZATION ANDCANADIAN NATIONALISM
• AFTER WORLD WAR 1 BRITAIN WAS WEAKENED ECONOMICALLY AND HAD TO DEVALUE THE POUND
• THE UNITED STATES EXPERIENCED A BOOM AND INCREASED THE VALUE OF THEIR DOLLAR
• AMERICAN INVESTMENT OVERTOOK BRITISH AS THE SOURCE OF FOREIGN MONEY IN CANADA– AMERICAN INVESTORS WANTED TO BUY SHARES AND
CONTROL IN COMPANIES WHILE BRITISH HAD PREFERRED AN ARMS LENGTH RELATIONSHIP WITH BONDS
• IN 1923 CANADIAN EXPORTS TO THE UNITED STATES WERE GREATER THAN THOSE TO BRITAIN$£
• BY 1925 CANADIAN BUSINESS IS EXPERIENCED A REBOUND FROM THE POST-WAR ADJUSTMENTS
• AMERICAN PROTECTIONISM EASED– PRICES FOR MANY CANADIAN STAPLES INCREASED
• WHEAT• PULP & PAPER• MINERALS• LUMBER
• CANADIAN PLANTSPRODUCEDAUTOMOBILES BOTHAS BRANCH PLANTSAND INDEPENDENTLY– BY 1930, ¾ OF
CANADIANAUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION WAS THROUGH AMERICAN COMPANIES
• BRANCH PLANTSWERE BECOMING COMMON
1908 MCLAUGHLIN MADE IN OSHAWA
• CANADIAN CULTURE BLOSSOMED IN THE DECADE AFTER THE WAR BUT FACED AMERICAN PRESSURE WHEN IT EXISTED IN A COMMERCIAL FORMAT– DISTINCTIVE CANADIAN ART FROM
THE GROUP OF 7 IN CENTRAL CANADAAND EMILY CARR IN B.C.
UKRANIAN FARMER IN ALBERTA 1907A RUSHING SEA OF
UNDERGROWTH – BY EMILY CARR
HILLTOPS – BY FRANK CARMICHAEL
• CANADIAN MOVIE INDUSTRY STARTED OUT STRONG BUT WAS QUICKLY ECLIPSED BY HOLLYWOOD– BY 1929 THE TOP 5 AMERICAN STUDIOS
MADE 90% OF ALL FEATURE FILMS– SOME MOVIES WERE MADE ABOUT
CANADA BUT RARELY WERE SHOT HERE• CANADIAN RADIO STARTED EARLY
WITH CFCF MONTREAL IN 1920 AND60 STATIONS BY 1930– CANADIAN PROGRAMMING CONSISTED
OF NEWS, LECTURES & RECORDED MUSIC– AMERICAN RADIO PRODUCED COMEDY,
DRAMA & LIVE VARIETY SHOWS THATCANADIAN STATIONS ALSO BROADCAST
– 1928 THE AIRD COMMISSION REVIEWEDPUBLIC BROADCASTING, RECOMMENDING A PUBLIC MONOPOLY
– CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (CBC) WAS FORMED IN 1932
CANADIAN MARY PICKFORD MOVED TO
HOLLYWOOD AND BECAME “AMERICA’S
SWEETHEART”
• HOCKEY AND FOOTBALL BECAME INCREASINGLY PROFESSIONAL– AFTER MERGERS AND COLLAPSE THERE
WAS ONLY ONE MAJOR PROFESSIONALLEAGUE – THE NHL WITH 5 TEAMS EACHFROM CANADA IN THE UNITED STATESIN 1927
– BY THE END OF THE DECADE THERE WEREJUST 2 CANADIAN TEAMS TO THEAMERICAN 4
• DANCE CRAZES OF THE 1920sFOLLOWED AMERICAN TRENDS– FOX-TROT, CHARLESTON
• MUSIC FOLLOWED AMERICAN TRENDSWITH RADIO AND THE PHONOGRAPH BRINGING MUSIC TO MORE PEOPLE
THE LAST NON-NHL TEAM TO WIN THE STANLEY CUP
WAS THE VICTORIA COUGARS IN 1924-25