Arts Culture 1930 s Arts Culture 1930 s

Arts & Culture: 1930 s

Arts & Culture: 1930 s THE CBC • Canadians were listening to American radio stations and watching films • fears that this was causing Canadians to lose their identity • Bennett created Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in 1932

Arts & Culture: 1930 s THE NFB • 1939 Mackenzie King founded the NFB • Canada’s public film producer and distributor • An agency of the Government of Canada • John Grierson “Father of the Documentary” was appointed its first film commissioner and played a pivotal role in the agency’s development. • Purpose was to tell Canadian stories to Canadians and others around the world.

Arts & Culture: 1930 s Canadians in Film : Marie Dressler • From Cobourg Ontario • Dressler was a Canadian comedienne in an American-dominated film industry that was going strong in Hollywood • Won the Academy Award for best actress in 1931 for her film Min and Bill • She died of cancer in 1934

Arts & Culture: 1930 s Sports & Radio: Foster Hewitt Toronto Maple Leafs Win Stanley Cup 1932 • During the Depression, hockey provided many Canadians will hope. • Creation of Maple Leaf Gardens 1931 -1932

Arts & Culture: 1930 s Sports & Radio: Foster Hewitt Toronto Maple Leafs Win Stanley Cup 1932 • Foster Hewitt was Canada's premier hockey play-by-play broadcaster forty years for “Hockey Night in Canada” • Sign-on at the beginning of each broadcast, "Hello, Canada, and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland" "He shoots, he scores!"

Arts & Culture: 1930 s “Pop Culture” : The Dionne Quintuplets • On May 28, 1934, five identical girls are born to the Dionnes in Callander, Ontario • The Canadian government takes them from their parents and makes them wards of the state for “protection” • For the first nine years of their lives, they live at a hospital in their hometown that becomes a tourist mecca called "Quintland. "

Arts & Culture: 1930 s “Pop Culture” : The Dionne Quintuplets • 1934 – 1943: 3 million people visit Quintland • The government and nearby businesses make an estimated half-billion dollars off the tourists • nation's biggest tourist attraction – bigger than Niagara Falls.

Arts & Culture: 1930 s Visual Arts: The Canadian Group of Painters (forms 1933) • twenty-eight members included most progressive Englishspeaking artists from across Canada. Arthur Lismer

Arts & Culture: 1930 s Visual Arts: The Canadian Group of Painters (forms 1933) Lawren Harris A. Y. Jackson

Arts & Culture: 1930 s Did Canada have its own culture in the 1930 s? Why or why not?