The stockpile of unused goods such as newsprint, radio, and cars.
What is overproduction?
100
The percentage of Canadians that were unemployed as a result of the depression.
What is 25%?
100
Prime Minister Mackenzie King's speech wherein he responded to the public's concerns by saying that social welfare was the responsibility of the provinces.
What is the Five Cent Speech?
100
Party formed in 1932 which supported social programs such as income assistance and publicly funded health care.
What is the CCF?
200
Government relief payments given to those with no alternative source of income during the Depression.
What are "pogeys"?
200
Prime Minister Bennett increased these on imported goods, hoping it would convince people to buy cheaper Canadian goods "blasting" the country out of depression.
What are tariffs (or taxes)?
200
Social Credit Party believed that giving people this would jump start the economy, easing the country out of depression.
What is social credit?
300
Act passed by the federal government in 1935, which helped farmers build irrigation systems.
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration Act?
300
Created by the federal government. Located deep in the woods as an isolated area where men worked on road building projects, land clearing, and drain digging.
What are work camps?
300
Established to examine federal-provincial relations. They recommended that the federal government control taxation, unemployment insurance, and social benefits.
What is the Rowell-Sirois Commission?
500
Resources on which Canada heavily depended on during the depression; considered the major weaknesses of the country's economy during this time.
What are wheat and newsprint?
500
Most of the homeless and unemployed Canadians during the Depression took part in this, drifting from one place to another, looking for work.
What is "riding the rails"?
500
Main purpose of the "On to Ottawa Trek".
What is a demand for better working conditions?
500
Three terms of BC Premier Patullo's "Little New Deal".
What are: shortened work days, increase in minimum wage, and increase in relief payment?