What year was considered to be the height of the Depression?
What is 1933
100
Percentage of Canadians that became unemployed, homeless and desperately poor as a result of the Depression?
What is nearly 25%
100
Created by governments for unemployed single men located in isolated areas
What are work camps
200
Period of extreme economic, social hardship & massive unemployment and terrible suffering
What is a Depression
200
Newsprint; radios; clothing and cars
What are the type of goods that were overproduced
200
Buying stock with a small amount of money down and a large loan for the remainder.
What is Buying on Margin?
200
How Canadians, severely effected by the Depression travel from city to city looking for work?
What are freight trains
200
Prime Minister Mackenzie King's statement about not giving anything to any province that didn't have a Liberal government.
What is the Five cent speech
300
3 Stock Markets crashed in October 1929
What is New York, Toronto & Montreal
300
When farms were hit hard during the Depression and farmers were forced to go away and look for work, how the farms kept working
What are the women
300
Financial ruin caused by when the Stock Market plummeted/collapsed
What is the result of buying on margin
300
Relief payments made by the Government to people with no alternative sources of income
What is "Pogey"
300
Men from Work Camps left for Ottawa to protest for better working conditions
What is the On to Ottawa Trek
400
Provided clothing and meals to desperate people
What are Private Charities
400
Serious droughts; grasshopper infestations and dust storms
What were the other matters that made the Depression worse for farmers?
400
Motto for buying things on credit
What is "Buy now & Pay later"
400
What was issued to Canadians that was considered to be "Pogey"
What are food vouchers
400
1935 Act passed by Government to help farmers build irrigation systems and reservoirs.
What is the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act
500
When the Canadian economy slowed down, other countries began placing tariffs on imported goods that made Canadian goods more expensive and harder to sell in those countries
What is Protectionism
500
How cars got around during the Depression era when lacking fuel
What are being pulled by horses
500
What Liberal PM Mackenzie King thought about the depression
What is a temporary problem and that the economy would eventually improve
500
4 industries that Canada relied on during the Depression era
What are Fish; Pulp & Paper; Wheat and minerals
500
Political parties formed in the West to respond to the Depression
What are the CCF (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) and the Social Credit Party