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Causes of the Depression
Hard Times in Canada
Political Change
Solutions to the Depression
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Where stockpiles of goods sat untouched in warehouses.
What is overproduction?
100
The term that was used when explaining hopping on and off of freight trains, or clinging to the underneath of the trains.
What is riding the rods?
100
The Prime Minister elected after Mackenzie King delivered his 'five cent speech' which fed up the voters.
Who is R.B. Bennett
200
Putting money back into the economy by giving citizens $25 a month.
What is Social Credit Party's solution?
200
Found deep, and isolated in the woods, with terrible food, and bug-infested beds. Men were given jobs such as digging drains, building roads, and clearing land.
What are work camps?
300
Many Canadians bought stocks with a small down payment and big loan in hopes that they would be able to make a quick profit when the prices increased, however, these individuals were in big trouble when the stock market crashed.
What is the effect of buying on margin?
300
Government relief payment for those who have no alternative source of income. You must prove to the government that you do not own anything of value and that you are about to be evicted from your home.
What is pogey, and how can you receive it?
300
Social welfare was the responsibility of the provinces
What is Mackenzie King's opinion?
400
When American factories in Canada shut down, that is when many people lost their jobs and the demand for Canadian goods decreased.
What is Canada's dependence on the United States?
500
The Canadian economy relied heavily on the sale of primary products, those being wheat, fish, minerals, pulp and paper. When farmers faced a very bad drought for almost 8 years straight, wheat production decreased incredibly and with the reduction of their products being shipped across the world, many Canadian farmers went bankrupt.
What is the effect of Canada's dependence on primary products?
500
The prairies suffered severely from the depression, and to make matters worse there was a terrible drought. The wheat market collapsed, and there were almost constant dust storms where millions of hectares of fertile topsoil was blown away.
What is the drought in the prairies?
500
Formed in 1932, led by J.S. Woodsworth. A party who supported social programs such as income assistance, and publicly funded health care. Many farmers, laborers, socialists, intellectuals, and discontented liberals supported this party.
What is the Cooperative Commonwealth Party?
500
Protesters and leaders of the Relief Camp Workers Union trekked from B.C. to Ottawa to protest against camp conditions. They were stopped in Regina, where only leaders were permitted to continue on to Ottawa.
What is the "On To Ottawa" trek?