The culture of Canada has a lot of elements such as artistic, literary, humor, musical, political, and social that represent Canada and Canadians. Throughout Canada's history, Canada's culture has been influenced by many cultures such as European culture British culture, French culture, and its own baronial culture. Many elements of the cultures of Canada's immigrant countries have been put into Canadian history to make a bigger Canadian culture. Why I chose Canadian culture because I wanted to learn more about the culture and I thought it was an interesting topic.
The group of seven was a group founded in 1920 as an organization of landscape painters. Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y Jackson, Frank Johnston, J.E.H Macdonald, and Frederick Varley were the most important Canadian artists in the first decade of the twenty century. They had a major influence on many artists such as Jack Bush, a group of eleven, Peter Doig, and many more. In the beginning, the group of seven was not only landscape painters they would do other types of painting. Their first exhibition in the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1920 was major for them because landscape painting wasn't in art galleries in Canada and this was the first time. After that, they staring identify themselves as a landscape painting school. The group of seven started becoming frustrated with the conservation quality of Canadian art. So they started speaking out about it and started to claim themselves as Canada’s school for painters and the artistic establishment didn't like that. The problems for the group of seven really began when Eric Brown, The director of the National Gallery began to support the group of seven and buy their paintings. He also made sure that their paintings were shown all over the Wembley exhibition. This got many people in the royal canadian academy Mad because they thought that the group of seven had an unfair advantage with Eric Brown's support. They started to be biased in the British reports and started to make the Group of Seven started to feel vindicated. This later got resolved and Eric and The group of seven continued to make history with their paintings.
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This is a picture of the Group of seven having a meeting about their painting.
This was at a restaurant in Ontario in 1920. This relates to my theme because this is an iconic moment in Canadian culture because all of the members were in a local restaurant in Ontario talking about their paintings and their fans got to see them.
On May 22, 1971, Ontario Place opened. it was first opened as a theme park in Ontario this was big for Canada because this was the first theme park with family attractions in Canadain History. it was originally designed to promote exhibits and entertainment in Ontario but over time they decided to change it and make a water park with kids areas and amusement rides. but in 2012 they shocked everyone by closing it for redevelopment. The new Ontario was not like before now it had a movie theater, a marine, and a concert stage that opens during the summertime. when they finished redeveloping it a lot of people were furious because a lot of the old attractions were gone this causes a lot of problems for them and for business. a lot of people stop going just because of the renewal of Ontario Place. How They can solve these problems by just bringing back the old Ontario place and a lot of people that were angry will come back. Sadly that can not happen because the future of Ontario Place is coming to an end because Doug Ford has announced that he will be destroying Ontario Place to build a casino. This is very sad because Ontario place has played a huge part in Canadian culture and history and has brought so many good memories for people.
This is a picture of Canadians celebrating the opening of the Ontario Place. This relates to my theme because this was the first time a theme park ever opened in Canadian history.
Overall Canadian history has many elements that have influenced the Canadian culture. Canadian culture is always changing and it's gonna keep changing in the future with more and more immigrants coming to Canada and bringing their culture with them the future of Canadian culture will be unpredictable.
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