Rural Issues
This unfortunate natural phenomenon made it difficult for farmers to grow crops in the 1930s.
What is a drought, also known as The Dust Bowl?
Areas in cities where homeless men temporarily gathered were known as…
What are ‘jungles’?
The Canadian Prime Minister during the early years of the Great Depression.
Who was ‘William Lyon Mackenzie King’?
The amount relief camp workers were paid daily.
What is ‘20 cents’?
The Social Credit party believed that if people had more of this in their pockets, they would buy more products.
What is 'money'?
The provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba were commonly referred to as the ‘________ ________’ provinces in the 1930s.
What are the ‘dust bowl’ provinces?
When men would hop onto trains and catch free rides to different places it was called …
What is ‘riding the rods/rails’?
The Canadian government set up military-style ________ _______ for young, single, jobless men.
What are ‘relief camps’?
Provide a type of work/a job that men working in relief camps did.
What are clearing bush, building roads, planting trees, or erecting public buildings?
Maurice Duplessis founded this political party in 1935.
What is ‘Union Nationale’?
This type of pest would fly over areas in swarms and eat anything organic they could find.
What are ‘grasshoppers’ or locust?
In the 1930s in Canada, unwanted, homeless young men were known as…
What are ‘untouchables’?
While Prime Minister Mackenzie King said that he would not give this any province that did not have a liberal government.
What is ‘a five-cent piece’?
Provide two services/benefits that men were granted if they worked in a relief camp.
What are room (shelter), board (food), medical services, or money?
This political party founded in the 1930s believed that public works projects should be started to create jobs.
What is the ‘CCF or Co-operative Commonwealth Federation’?
People placed this household item in their windows and doorways to stop dust from blowing into their houses.
What are ‘sheets’?
Why did many labourers not join Unions in the 1930s?
What is ‘because they were just glad to have jobs and they didn’t want to get fired’?
Mackenzie King was defeated in an election and this man became Prime Minister.
Who is ‘Richard Bedford Bennett’ or ‘R.B. Bennett’?
When the young men working in relief camps went on strike and traveled across the country to speak to the Prime Minister is was called this.
What is ‘the On-To-Ottawa Trek’?
The ‘prosperity certificates’ offered by this party were outlawed because they were too much like money.
What is ‘the Social Credit party’?
A good harvest still didn’t help farmers during the 1930s for this reason.
What is ‘they were paid poorly for their crops’?
By 1933, approximately what percentage of Canadians were out of work?
What is ‘33% or one-third’?
During the Great Depression there was no unemployment insurance and no family allowance.
What is one other type of government care we have today that was not present during the Great Depression?
What is ‘government medical care’?
When the government decided that the relief camp workers trek to Ottawa needed to be stopped, they halted their progress in this city.
What is ‘Regina, Saskatchewan’?
The CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) still exists today but it goes by a new name. This is the new name of the party?
What is “the NDP (New Democratic Party)”?