Beginning Of The Depression
Fish, Wheat, Pulp/Paper, & Minerals.
What are the Four Primary Products that Canada depended on?
Gave the "5 Cent Speech".
Who is Mackenzie King?
It is what brought Canadian Farmers into a wave of financial distresses.
What is a Drought?
The place the drought hit the hardest.
What is the Palliser Triangle?
The date the stock market crashed.
What is Tuesday, October 29th, 1929?
A payment that was given to those who had no source of income.
What is Podgey?
The "Big Three" U.S. companies that owned a large portion of Canada's oil business, along with half of the machinery and chemical industries, and over half the rubber and electrical industries.
What is General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler?
The phrase linked to when one travels by hopping from one train to the next.
What is "Riding the Rods"?
Supposed to help farmers build reservoirs and irrigation systems.
What is the PrairieFarm Rehabilitation Act?
The motto for the people who could not afford to currently repay their loans.
What is "Buy Now, Pay Later?"
Made Canadian Products more expensive while causing the economy to slow down even more, and also made items harder to sell in other countries.
What is Tariffs?
What is Protectionism?
The drought on the Prairies in 1931 had these effects.
What lasted nearly 8 years, caused constant dust storms, and led to millions of hectares of topsoil to be blown away?
The sole market that the Prairies depended on, and collapsed when there was a drought.
What is the Wheat Market?
Waiting in line for hours before declaring financial failure.
What is the process to receive Government Relief?
Smart investors chose to sell their stocks, leading others to panic and to do the same.
What is The Stock Market Crash
The event that caused one Winnipeg man to return home to learn that his wife (who was living off of relief) had drowned their son, strangled their daughter, and then later poison herself.
What is the Great Depression?