1871 - BC joins Canada     1878 - Telephone is used in BC for the first time     1885 - Potlatch, a Coastal First Nations Feast and Ceremony, made illegal     1896 - Recess becomes mandatory in BC public schools     1912 - The Titanic sinks     1914 - 1918 - World War I     1923 - Chinese Exclusion Act bans all Chinese Immigration     1939 - 1945 - World War II     1942 - Japanese Canadians sent to internment camps     1948 - UN Declaration of Human Rights     1950 - 1953 - Korean War     1951 - Potlatch, a Coastal First Nations Feast and Ceremony, legalized     1960 - The Canadian Bill of Rights becomes law     1965 - UN Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination     1967 - Royal Commission on the Status of Women     1970 - Voting age lowered from 21 years of age to 18 years of age     1976 - UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights     1978 - Canadian Human Rights Act established     1981 - UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)     1989 - UN Convention on the Rights of the Child     2007 - Canada refuses to sign UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People