Causes
The reason many workers lost their job
What is Unemployment
It led to poverty and forced many farmers to leave their farms and move elsewhere
What is Drought?
An attempted solution for unemployed men created by R.B. Bennet
Work Camps
In what province was the ''Little New Deal'' introduced?
British Columbia
The United States
What is Canada's biggest trading partner?
When economy crashed, many Canadians lost their jobs and were unable to make their payments
Government relief payments that are given to those how had no alternative source of income
What is Pogey?
What is the ''On to Ottawa'' Trek?
Men from work camps travelled to Ottawa for better working conditions
Who returned to power after the Depression, who did he replace?
Mackenzie King replaced R.B. Bennet
The result of the United States stopped investing in Canadian products
The start of The Great Depression in the US and overproduction in Candian products.
Canadians travelled across the country looking for jobs. They travelled by¨hopping¨ freight trains and on the roof or stuck to the rods underneath the train.
What is 'Riding the rods', and why did Canadians do this?
What are tariffs? How did the effect the Economy?
The Canadian economy placed this on imported goods order to protect them from the great depression but ended up slowing it down even more because it made Canadian products more expensive and hard to sell
What party presented a solution that was declared illegal? What was the solution?
Social Credit Party presented a solution of giving each citizen $25 in an attempt to put money back into the economy.
What is the CCF and what did it do?
A socialist party and that supported government control of businesses and social programs to assist people in need like the elderly, the unemployed, the homeless, the sick, and other citizens unable to support themselves.
Why did Canadian farmers go bankrupt?
Prices fell in Canada because other countries started selling products Canada used to sell and farmers faced droughts that ruined their farms.