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. Both communist and fascist regimes are considered _______ian.
totalitarian
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.
DAILY DOUBLE
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: 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?
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.
DAILY DOUBLE
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?
When centrist governance is ineffective, like it was for some countries during the Great Depression, these kind of political parties become more appealing..
Extremist
Poles of the political spectrum, fascism and communism.
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?