Causes of "Dirty Thirties"
October 29th, 1929
What is Black Tuesday- the day the stock market crashed in New York, Toronto and Montreal
The percentage of all Canadians unemployed/homeless at the height of the Depression.
What is 25% of the population
The speech that indicated that the Prime Minister would not give 5 cents to any province that was not led by a Liberal government.
What is the Five Cent Speech?
The prairie dry belt
What are the provinces that were struck by successive drought that contributed to the Depression due to lack of wheat production?
Government relief payments paid to those that have no source of income.
What is 'pogey'?
A new political party led by William Aberhart.
What is the Social Credit Party?
Farming, fishing, mining and logging
What are the primary industries Canada relied on in the 1920s that could no longer support the economy?
Men that would ride the freight trains from town to town to find work.
Who were 'riding the rods'?
Formed in the west in 1932, and supported government ownership of certain businesses, industries and social programs to assist those in need.
What is the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)?
Great Britain and the USA
Who were Canada's main trading partners, whose economies were also badly affected by the Great Depression that we could no longer export to?
Men lived in these to complete projects, such as building roads and clearing lands.
What are work camps?
He brought forward an elaborate new plan to provide help for people in need as a new Prime Minister.
Who is R.B. Bennett?
When too much product is produced because nobody can afford to purchase products. Workers are laid off because there are no sales. It is the cycle this causes.
What is the cycle caused by overproduction of goods?
Men in work camps were unhappy with work and living conditions and decided to take action by making their way to Ottawa to protest.
What was the On-To-Ottawa Trek?
The provincial Liberal that proposed the "Little New Deal".
Who was Dufferin Patullo?