HIST 1133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rocco Perri, Mail Order, Disposable And Discretionary Income

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1133
• Professor: Kirk Niergarth

Document Summary

Massive expansion of toronto/montreal/vancouver as population/ business centres. Toronto - population of more than 500 000 in 1921 (more than double the 1900 population) Jazz age: wlmk a u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sit(cid:455) t(cid:396)ai(cid:374)ed (cid:862)e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)t(cid:863) o(cid:374) la(cid:271)ou(cid:396). Alcohol and moral regulation: prohibition introduced in all canadian provinces by the end of wwi, federal legislation to prevent interprovincial trade, 1918, prohibition laws aimed at retail, not production (for export) nor possession/consumption (for medical/spiritual purposes) Doctors and pharmacists defacto bartenders: prohibition in the usa in 1920, canadian brewers and distillers capitalize. (i. e. ; all the alberta brewers) Liquor traffic: windsor-detroit border new brunswick-maine, nova scotia-st. Women): e(cid:374)te(cid:374)(cid:272)es of up to t(cid:449)o (cid:455)ea(cid:396)s fo(cid:396) (cid:862)u(cid:374)(cid:373)a(cid:374)agea(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:396)(cid:396)igi(cid:271)ilit(cid:455)(cid:863) Removed in 1958: hu(cid:374)d(cid:396)eds of (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s(cid:863, 70% teenagers, almost all poor or working class, most connected to promiscuity, pregnancy, vd. Half are pregnant or have an illegitimate child: mercer reformatory: domestic training. 1920 federal division of child welfare (cid:862)(cid:271)lue (cid:271)ooks(cid:863) Discouragement of corporal punishment: pregnant women to avoid sexual activity.