After the chaos of the 1925 and 1926 elections, coupled with the King-Byng Affair, it probably seemed like things would get better for William Lyon Mackenzie King but what he did not count on was the monumental event of The Great Depression. By the...
For the past 58 years, Canada generally had several years between elections. The shortest time period was between 1872 and 1874 but then 1925 and 1926 came along. Why did these elections come so quickly after each other? Well, it all came down to a...
Since 1896, there had been no change in government in Canada. For 15 years, the Liberals led the country as it entered the 20th century and its cultural framework changed thanks to the immense immigration efforts that brought in hundreds of...