Youth or Teenager
Diarrhea, rickets, and diphtheria are examples of _________?
Common diseases in youth
What wasn’t provided in relief camps: bunkhouse residence, heaters, three daily meals, work clothes, medical care or 20 cents a day?
Heaters
What was an important role women had taken on during the Great Depression?
Women were very important during the Great Depression as they kept the question together.
Some Prairie farmers left their farms and moved to cities or other provinces in search of________?
Work
How did the people moving away hurt rural towns?
Rural areas lost all their population and their economy.
During the Great Depression, many teens left home and traveled. Why?
To fing Jobs
Which Canadian province went on strike first?
British Columbia
How did women adjust their lives to deal with less family income?
They cut their spending to very little and sacrificed their eating and clothes to get their family by.
This long period without rain destroyed crops and helped create the Dust Bowl on the Prairies?
A Drought
What challenges did the migrants face?
Very little jobs and poverty
Why were there less youth during the Great Depression?
Couples had less money to support new children
Workers in the camps often complained about the food, which was usually simple meals like?
Soup and Bread
Why did the women's role take a huge step up during the Great Depression?
Families had very little money meaning they need someone dependent to rely on
Many Prairie farmers couldn’t pay their bills which caused them to?
Lose their land
What types of jobs were immigrant people moving looking for?
Factory Jobs
Because money was tight, many Canadian teenagers spent their free time doing this low‑cost activity at home?
Listen to the radio
Which Prime Minister sanctioned relief camps?
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett
Why did the women's role take a huge step up during the Great Depression?
Families had very little money meaning they need someone dependent to rely on
How did families keep dust out of their houses?
By stuffing wet clothes into windows and doors
Why did lots of Canadians leave the prairies during the Great Depression?
Because of a water drought, dust bowls and lack of crops.
Where did youth have to go when food was tight?
Soup Kitchens
A young unemployed man in a Canadian relief camp earned this tiny amount of money per day?
20 cents
How did managing life during the Great Depression change the way society viewed women?
Showed women were more capable than they were given credit for.
Dust storms were so thick that farmers called them this dramatic nickname?
Black Blizzards
Where did most Canadians move during the Great Depression.
Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver