Квебектің 20 ғасырының басы мен Вестминстер статуты арасындағы тарихы

None

This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns the events relating to the province of Quebec, Canada between the beginning of the 20th century and the Westminster statute.

1900 Quebec general election: Liberals win. 1900 Alphonse Desjardins founds the first credit union in North America on December 6 in Lévis. 1904 Henri Bourassa pleads in favour of bilingualism in the institutions of the federal government. 1904 Quebec general election: Liberals win. 1906 Ernest Ouimet introduces cinema to Montreal with his Ouimetoscope. 1907 The Montreal Chamber of Commerce founds the École des hautes études commerciales de Montréal. 1907 The Quebec Bridge, under construction, collapses. 1908 Quebec general election: Liberals win.

1910 Henri Bourassa founds Le Devoir (newspaper). 1912 The Parliament of Canada passes Quebec Boundaries Extension Act that extends the northern boundary of the province of Quebec to Hudson Strait. 1912 Ontario limits the teaching in French to grades one and two of elementary school with Regulation 17. 1912 Quebec general election: Liberals win. 1914 Beginning of First World War. 1916 English becomes the only authorized language of instruction in Manitoba. The province's sizeable French speaking population is forced to attend English schools until 1970. 1916 The Quebec bridge who was in construction fall in St Lawrence river a second time, causing 13 death. 1916 Quebec general election: Liberals win. 1917 There are riots in Quebec as the federal government enforces conscription. See Conscription Crisis of 1917. 1918 Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec Joseph Napoléon Francoeur presents a motion demanding the independence of Quebec. 1918 Lionel Groulx, becomes the first priest to publicly denounce what he considers injustices against French speakers. He denounces the unilingual English face of Montreal, the absence of bilingual coins and bank notes, and the absence of French in Ottawa, the federal capital. 1918 Women win the right to vote in Canadian federal elections. All provinces follow suit by 1922 except Quebec, which does not give women the right to vote in provincial elections until 1940. 1919 On May 8, the branch of Université Laval built in Montreal in 1878 becomes autonomous and is renamed Université de Montréal. 1919 Quebec general election: Liberals win.

1920 Marie Anne Houde is found guilty of murder of her 10 year old stepdaughter Aurore Gagnon in a trial that attracted public attention. 1921 The Ku Klux Klan establishes itself in Montreal. The group is believed to be behind many criminal fires that destroyed religious institutions. 1922 Joseph Armand Bombardier engineers the first prototype of a snowmobile, the Snowdog. The first fully operational unit will be assembled in 1935. 1922 Montreal radio station CKAC begins broadcasting, the first radio station in Quebec. 1923 Quebec general election: Liberals win. 1925 The Banque Canadienne Nationale is created out of the merger of the Banque d'Hochelaga and the Banque Nationale. 1927 Quebec general election: Liberals win. 1927 Following Canada's dispute with Great Britain, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council rules on the border between the Labrador territory and the Province of Quebec. 1927 April 1: by virtue of a new law, members of the Legislative Assembly no longer need to resign and stand for re election in a by election when they are named cabinet ministers. 1928 The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council decides that women in Canada are legal "persons". 1929 October stock market crash on Wall Street heralds the start of the Great Depression.