Canada in the twentieth Century

Many people look back at the twentieth century and feel that Canada did pretty well. Canada was voted best place to live several times and made an international name for itself in peace keeping. These people tend to forget the many problems Canada suffered during the twentieth century. Back in 1896, before the century even started, Sir Wilfrid Laurier proclaimed that, “The 20th century shall be the century of Canada.” He could not have made a …

…have been treated wrongly. With all these problems, it is certain that if a list were made up of the countries that thrived the most during the twentieth century Canada would be at the bottom of it. Maybe if things were done differently and we respected people of all cultures, the results on this list would be different. But things were not done differently and this is why the twentieth century was not Canada’s.