The Canadian Family Experience

The Canadian Family Experience

From 1920’s – 1980’s

The Roaring

20’s

Lets meet our Family!

Here is Dad with some army buddies upon his return from WWI

1920’s

Here is Dad in a picture with some army buddies upon his return from WWI

What a looker!

1920’s

Mom finished school at grade 8, and now

she’s a school teacher

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1920’s

Mom finished school at grade 8, and now

she’s a school teacher



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Little Johnny, finished with school, helps the family buy working in a clothing factory.

1920’s



Little Johnny, finished with school, helps the family by working in a clothing factory.

Where is my Xbox 360?!?

1920’s

Good Times!

• The 20’s are an exciting time, new technologies are popping up all over the place.

• Many of these technologies help us save time and effort. …like when making cars.

1920’s

ASSEMBLY LINE!

Dad gets a job!!!!!• Employment increases, and like many

Canadians, Dad lands a job in the Manufacturing sector, making sneakers.

Things are looking good!

1920’s

• Technology helps save Mom time at home too!

I just LOVE my new electric

range!!

1920’s

• Employment is up

• Technology gives people free time

- A new thing for most people

• Our family begins to focus more on fun and leisure

- they want to forget about the war & start living the ‘Good Life’

1920’s

• Part of living the ‘Good Life’ is having all the new toys as they come out.



1920’s

Dad & Mom buy a new car on Credit!



Buy now!

Pay Later!

1920’s

• Now that Dad is making money, and Mom has free time, she starts to have some fun too, enjoying many of the same pastimes as men.

- Bars, smoking, drinking, dancing, new fashions

1920’s

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OH NO.

MOM’S A FLAPPER!

1920’s



Little Johnny can finally be a kid!

Labour laws change and Little Johnny is no longer allowed to work in the factories.



Little Johnny can finally be a kid!

WEEEEEEEE!

• By the end of the 20’s the family is doing well. The economy is good and the future looks bright.

….BUT THEN

1930’s and the Great Depression

• 1929 the good times ended in a hurry

• People and businesses who had put their faith in the growing economy sadly learned a harsh lesson in the fluctuations of the stock market.

• Black Tuesday saw many people lose everything

Dad used to work in a shoe factory but when it was forced to shut down he no longer had a job!



• Dad goes from town to town to trying to find work.

Dad sells the family car in an effort to make some money

As a last ditch effort he sells apples to try and help pay his families bills.

…5 cents and apple, he’s going to have to sell quite a few.



Dad and other unemployed workers march the streets, trying to get the attention of Prime Minister Bennett



Mom makes the best of the situation, but no longer enjoys the comforts (vacuum, electric stove, iron, washing machine) she once had. To make ends meet she baby sits for pennies a day, making due with little to nothing.

Baby Jake is too young to know the hard times faced by Mom

1940’s and the Second World War:

The Birth of Canada& End of the Depression

• Dad joins the merchant marines, along with many other Canadians, ensuring the war effort across the sea was well supplied.





• Little Johnny is no longer so little. He enlists in the army, and eventually helps in the storming of Juno beach, a defining moment in Canadian history!

Mom helps out by working in the factories making munitions, doing jobs that were normally reserved for men.

• And the one good thing about the war?

– Almost everyone has a job, and the economy starts to bounce back after a 10 year slump.

The 1950’s &

The Cold War

• After WWII and the advent of the Atomic Bomb there were tensions between North America and The Soviet Union

• (Baby) Jake, now in Junior High, practices ‘Duck and Cover’ in the event that Russia were to attack.



Good Times (AGAIN!)

• Like the 1920’s the 50’s were a time of economic growth

• There were also advances in labor saving Technology (like the 20’s!)

• Mom now received a family allowance to help support Jake.



Enjoying some quality time around the TV, watching the CBC!

• Upon returning from war, Johnny, like many young men, married his sweet heart and looked to start a family of his own.

• He and his wife along with their new baby girl (baby boomer) moved to the suburbs to enjoy the good times and all they offered!



Johnnys’ wife and daughter enjoying their new state-of-the-art home

Teenagers!?

• Unlike his older brother, Jake has never had to work, instead he goes to school and participates in other activities. There is a new age group!

Child

Adult

Child Teenager Adult

1920’s

1950’s



Jake and friends



1960’s &1970’s

Let’s Rock ‘n’ Roll!

• As Jake goes through high school he questions the values of his parents (After all, the war was responsible for the death of his dad) capitalism good?

• He expresses himself through music and dress, two things he has control over.



At university Jake grows his hair out and starts playing folk music

He meets lots of new people from different cultures

Counterculture

• Jake and his friends challenged the socially accepted norms of society (racism, capitalism, war)

• He becomes what we would call a hippie



• The counter culture pushed for civil rights and opposed the war in Vietnam.

• Jake often took to the streets during university to protest the conditions of the day.

• The youth had a voice, and they wanted to be heard!

Woodstock

• In 1969 Jake makes the journey to Woodstock, and a three day music festival billeted as 3 days of ‘Peace and Music’



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