Military-like camps that gave jobs to the unemployed to work on public projects
What are Unemployment Relief Camps?
100
The government was reluctant to help the single, homeless men
What is True?
100
The party that was in office during the beginning of the Deperession
What is the Conservative Party?
100
Immigration was welcomed during the Depression
What is False?
200
A social and economic shock that left millions of Canadians unemployed, hungry and sometimes even homeless
What is the Great Depression?
200
A group on unemployed men that marched to Bathurst Street United Church in Toronto
What is The Single Men's Unemployed Association?
200
The Prime Minister for the first half of the Great Depression
What is R.B. Bennett?
200
The Social Credit Party was most successful in these two provinces
What is Alberta and British Columbia?
200
The conservative party lost to the Liberals that was led by him
What is Mackenzie King?
300
The reason this decade was known as the "Dirty Thirties"
What was the nickname give to this decade because Canada heavily relied on on raw material and farm exports?
300
When relief workers went from Vancouver to Ottawa
What is the On-to-Ottawa Trek?
300
The Prime Minister said that who was responsible to find jobs for the unemployed
What is local and provincial responsibility?
300
The party that advocated the distribution of money so that people have enough money to spend and stimulate the economy
What is Social Credit Party?
300
In 1934 government created a legislation that made this responsible for regulating monetary policy
What is Bank of Canada?
400
The cause of the Great Depression
What is widespread drops in world commodity prices and decline in economic demand and world trade?
400
By 1933 what percent of the labour force was out of work?
What is 30%?
400
The Department that ran Unemployment Relief Camps
What is Department of Defence
400
The party that defended provincial autonomy, conservatism, economic liberalism and rural life
What is Union Nationale?
400
A Canadian Royal Commission looking into the Canadian economy and federal–provincial relations
What is the Rowell-Sirois Commission?
500
The percentage that Canada's GNE fell by
What is 42%?
500
The group that mostly represented workers in Canada
What is The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
500
What R.B. Bennett's new deal promised
What is more progressive taxation, unemployment insurance, health insurance and better regulation of working conditions
500
A group of progressive, socialist and labourers that formed to fight for economic reform, and wanted to help Canadians affected by the Great Depression
What is the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation?
500
BC Premier Dufferin Pattullo introduced these reforms
What is shortening the work day, increasing minimum wage and increasing relief payments by 20%?