Views by Decade: 1900s and 1910s (page 1)

1909-1919:

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University Orchestra

29 September 1909 - first day of classes
4 August 1914 - Canada enters World War I
14 March 1916 - women in Saskatchewan win the right to vote
October 1918 - world wide influenza epidemic hits province
11 November 1918 - war ends
15 May 1919 - Winnipeg General Strike

Books:Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich; Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier.
Movies:"The Tramp;" "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm;" "The Immigrant."
Music:The first 'blues' is published; Jerome Kern invents the 'musical,' the first jazz record is cut in New York.


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