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The Great Depression
1929 to 1939
Life in the Roaring Twenties
Great Depression Caused By:
1) Overproduction
2) Tariffs
3) Canada’s Reliance on Staple Goods
4) Canada’s Close Links to the United States
5) Credit Buying
6) Stock Market
Terrible Drought Strikes the West
Dust Storms Blow Across North America
Farms Wiped Out and Farmers Bankrupted
Locusts Eat Crops
Highest Rates of Unemployment in Canadian Highest Rates of Unemployment in Canadian History were experienced during The Depression.History were experienced during The Depression.
1 in 5 Canadians Unemployed – Highest Level Ever
Prime Minister
R.B. Bennett
(1930 – 35)
Bennett Buggy in Saskatchewan
Family Eviction
Destitute Saskatchewan
Family
Riding the Rails
Unemployed Heading West Pass Unemployed Heading East
Gunny Sack Parade, Vancouver
Depression Soup Kitchen
“Bennettville” Outside of Toronto
Extreme political parties gain popularity
Relief Camps Open for Unemployed Men
Clearing Forest
Building Roads
Men Leaving Relief Camps for On-to-Ottawa Trek
Men Join Trek in Every
City Along Path
Bennett Takes Hard Line Against Trekkers
Regina Riot, July 1st 1935
July 2nd Newspaper Headline
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
“Fireside Chats” to Calm the Nation
Massive Public Works Projects to Employ Men
Great Depression
Also Affected Germany. Depression Ends With
the Invasion of Poland in
1939.