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AMERICANIZATION AND CANADIAN NATIONALISM

AMERICANIZATION AND CANADIAN 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

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AMERICANIZATION AND CANADIAN NATIONALISM

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  1. 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 $ £

  2. 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 OFCANADIANAUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION WAS THROUGH AMERICAN COMPANIES • BRANCH PLANTSWERE BECOMING COMMON 1908 MCLAUGHLIN MADE IN OSHAWA

  3. CANADIAN CULTURE BLOSSOMED IN THE DECADE AFTER THE WAR BUT FACED AMERICAN PRESSURE WHEN IT EXISTED IN A COMMERCIAL FORMAT • DISTINCTIVE CANADIAN ART FROMTHE GROUP OF 7 IN CENTRAL CANADAAND EMILY CARR IN B.C. A RUSHING SEA OF UNDERGROWTH – BY EMILY CARR UKRANIAN FARMER IN ALBERTA 1907 HILLTOPS – BY FRANK CARMICHAEL

  4. CANADIAN MOVIE INDUSTRY STARTED OUT STRONG BUT WAS QUICKLY ECLIPSED BY HOLLYWOOD • BY 1929 THE TOP 5 AMERICAN STUDIOSMADE 90% OF ALL FEATURE FILMS • SOME MOVIES WERE MADE ABOUTCANADA BUT RARELY WERE SHOT HERE • CANADIAN RADIO STARTED EARLYWITH CFCF MONTREAL IN 1920 AND60 STATIONS BY 1930 • CANADIAN PROGRAMMING CONSISTEDOF 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”

  5. HOCKEY AND FOOTBALL BECAME INCREASINGLY PROFESSIONAL • AFTER MERGERS AND COLLAPSE THEREWAS 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

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