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This women's basketball team played for the love of the game and nothing else, and their record hasn't been beat since!
Who were the Edmonton Grads
This refers to having a ban on the making and selling of alcohol, which was common in Canada until it was changed in most provinces in 1924.
What is prohibition
The General Strike, which saw more than 30,000 workers go on strike, took place in this Canadian city.
What is Winnipeg
When angry Relief Camp workers decided to travel across Canada to speak to the Prime Minister and request improvements, the event became known as this.
What is the On-To-Ottawa Trek
This is what finally brought an end to the Great Depression.
What was WW2
This former Prime Minister lost the 1930 election after taking a laid-back attitude towards the Great Depression.
Who was William Lyon Mackenzie King
This new concept allowed consumers to "buy now, pay later", which ultimately led to many people falling heavily into debt.
What is buying on credit
In the 1935 election, the Conservative party promised minimum wages, an 8-hour workday, unemployment insurance, and price controls as part of their Canadian version of this.
What is the New Deal
The day the stock market crashed is referred to as this.
What is Black Tuesday
This slang term is used to refer to the homeless unemployed men who would 'ride the rails' from town to town looking for work. They also had their own language.
What is a hobo
This female athlete won silver and gold medals in women's track.
Who was Bobbie Rosenfeld
This concept permitted factories to manufacture goods such as cars with greater speed and efficiency as it meant workers only needed to know how to do one skill, and their colleagues knew how to do the others.
What is an assembly line
This political party won the 1935 election.
What is the Liberal Party
This cause of the Great Depression saw unsold extra things being warehoused and accumulating, and factories being shut down until the extra things were sold.
What is Overproduction
This was one of the jobs considered "natural" for women at the time.
What were a cleaning lady, a teacher, a nurse, or a clerk
This politician was responsible for creating Relief Camps to try to deal with the increasing number of unemployed men in major cities.
Who was R. B. Bennett
Fashion changed, and dresses were designed to be short and loose-fitting so as to emphasize these body parts rather than the hips and chest.
What were arms and legs
This was Mackenzie King's slogan in the 1935 election.
What is King or Chaos
The Relief Camp Trekkers protested with these 6 demands.
What were: 1) more money, less hours 2) Welfare 3) PPE and money if injured 4) right to vote 5) form a union 6)camps not run by National Defence
This term refers to a period of optimism in the stock market.
What is a Bull Market
This woman became the first female judge in Canada.
Who was Emily Murphy
More people were able to purchase things like washing machines because this was now available in homes.
What is electricity
After the leaders of the Trekkers were unsuccessful in talks with the government, protests erupted and turned into riots in this Canadian city.
What is Regina
This is the lesson Canada learned after relying too much on a resource-based economy.
What is the need to diversify
R. B. Bennett was the leader of this political party.
What is the Conservative party