The Great Depression in Canada
This year marked the beginning of the Great Depression due to the stock market crash.
Answer: What is 1929?
100: This nationwide protest was led by men in relief camps traveling starting from BC, heading east to demand better support from the government.
Answer: What is the On-to-Ottawa Trek?
100: This region suffered the most from droughts and the Dust Bowl, causing many farmers to abandon their land.
Answer: What are the Prairie Provinces?
100: This violent event took place when police clashed with protesters from the On-to-Ottawa Trek in Saskatchewan, symbolizing frustration with government policies.
Answer: What is the Regina Riot?
100: Canada’s economy was severely impacted by its reliance on trade with THIS neighboring country, which entered its own Depression in 1929.
Answer: What is the United States?
This percentage of Canadians was unemployed at the peak of the Depression in 1933.
Answer: What is 30%?
200: R.B. Bennett created this initiative where young men labored under poor conditions in exchange for low wages; they were called..
Answer: What are relief camps?
200: Due to its heavy dependence on the fishing and forestry industries, this region of Canada faced severe poverty and high unemployment.
Answer: What are the Maritime Provinces?
200: This alternative political party emerged during the Depression, pushing for social welfare and economic reforms in Canada.
Answer: What is the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)?
200: High tariffs, which worsened the global economic crisis, were initially imposed by this country to protect its industries.
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Answer: What is the United States?
Canada’s economy declined severely, with this percentage drop in Gross National Expenditure between 1929 and 1933. What was the percent drop?
Answer: What is 42%?
300: This Prime Minister initially believed the Depression would correct itself and resisted early intervention.
Answer: Who is Mackenzie King?
300: Many single men lived in these government-run camps and worked for low wages, under poor conditions, during the Depression.
Answer: What are relief camps?
300: This party, led by William Aberhart, gained traction in Alberta by promoting the economic philosophy of Social Credit, which proposed giving citizens cash to stimulate spending.
Answer: What is the Social Credit Party?
300: Following WWI, this political ideology, characterized by extreme nationalism and authoritarianism, gained power in Germany and Italy.
Answer: What is fascism?
One major reason for Canada’s economic vulnerability was its reliance on these types of goods for export.
Answer: What are staple exports (like wheat, fish, and minerals)?
400: In 1940, King introduced this program, a critical step in Canada’s social safety net that provided aid to those without work.
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Answer: What is Unemployment Insurance?
400: The industrial provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia, weathered the Great Depression better than other parts of Canada because of this economic feature.
Answer: What is a diversified economy? Robust.
400: The Depression caused disillusionment with traditional parties and led to the rise of this Quebec-based political party led by Maurice Duplessis, advocating for provincial autonomy and anti-union policies.
Answer: What is the Union Nationale?
400: In Stalin’s Soviet Union, this political and economic system emphasized state control, forced industrialization, and collectivization, but also led to widespread suffering and purges.
Answer: What is communism?
During the Depression, Newfoundland’s economic crisis was so severe that it resorted to this drastic action.
Answer: What is suspending its democratic government? Defaulting to British governance.
500: Bennett increased tariffs on imports and created these two key institutions to stabilize the economy and support farmers.
Answer: What are the Bank of Canada and the Canadian Wheat Board?
500: In this dramatic demonstration of economic hardship, Newfoundland’s economic collapse forced it to take this extreme measure.
Answer: What is suspending its democratic government? Defaulting governance to GB.
500: Young Canadian volunteers, frustrated with conditions at home, joined this overseas conflict in the 1930s, motivated by anti-fascist beliefs.
Answer: What is the Spanish Civil War?