| 1920s
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Prohibition
replaced with Government control of liquor sales. |
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Mary
Ellen Smith, first woman to hold Cabinet rank in
British Empire, sworn in as President of Council
and a member of the Cabinet. |
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Favourite
Roaring Twenties dance at Victoria's Alexandra and
the new Crystal Garden: The Charleston. |
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Hudson
Bay Company store opens on Douglas Street. |
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New
shipyards at Ogden Point made Victoria
accessible to deep-sea trade from Europe. |
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Vancouver
Island linked to New York by 55-hour airmail service. |
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Victorians
learn to drive on the right. |
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Opening
of the highway section of the Johnson Street bridge
links Victoria to its western suburbs. |
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Lester
Patrick's Cougars win the Stanley Cup. |
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The
Prince of Wales (who as Edward VIII will later abdicate)
and younger brother Prince George (who will become
King George VI) visit Victoria. |
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Esquimalt
Dry Dock officially opened. |
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Living
on credit, or "the never-never" leads many into
a debtor's nightmare. |
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The
Wall Street Stock Market crashes on "Black Thursday,"
catapults the Islander into economic crisis, and
prompts provincial Tory leader Simon Fraser Tolmie
to impose a tax of one per cent on all incomes over
$12 per week. |
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Chinese
Consolidated Benevolent Association opens second-largest
Chinese hospital in the Dominion on Herald Street.
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