Show:
Landmark Events
Major Causes
Canadian Politics
Major Consequences
The Stock Market
100
The stock exchange crash on October 29, 1929.
What was Black Tuesday?
100
One of the major causes of the Great Depression in Canada was its dependence on this nation.
What is the United States?
100
A controversial speech given by Prime Minister Mackenzie King, in which he attributed the responsibility of social welfare to the provincial governments.
What was the Five Cent Speech?
100
A colloquial phrase meaning to ride the rods underneath a freight train, often attributed to poor, drifting men desperately searching for work during the Depression.
What was "riding the rods"?
100
Investors buying stocks using loans.
What is buying on margin?
200
The prairie provinces were devastated the most by the Depression in Canada because of this event.
What was a terrible 8-year drought that spoiled many farms.
200
Pulp and paper, wheat, fish, and minerals
What were the few primary products that Canada depended on at the time of the Depression?
200
Two new political parties that were borne out of the economic unrest of the Depression.
What were the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Social Credit Party?
200
Government relief payments for those with no other source of income.
What was pogey?
200
Units of ownership in companies.
What are stocks?
500
The men in BC work camps were protesting unacceptable camp conditions, such as bad food and bug infestations, but the Prime Minister would not listen to them, accused them of being dangerous "radicals" and ordered the RCMP to arrest them.
What were the reasons for the "On to Ottawa" trek and why it was unsuccessful?
500
Overproduction resulted in a surplus of unsold goods, which caused companies to slow production and fire unneeded workers. Those who were laid off had less money to spend on goods - this slowed the economy further.
What were the reasons why overproduction was a major cause of the depression?
500
The Prime Ministers Mackenzie King and Bennett, who were in power at different points during the Depression, both were against federal government relief and major intervention in the economy, and suspected that the increasingly embittered working men would become Communists.
What were the reasons why the federal government did little to stop the effects of the Depression in Canada?
500
BC Premier Dufferin Pattullo was challenged by the federal government on the grounds that his projects were in the domain of the federal government.
What was the reason why the "Little New Deal" in BC was short-lived?
500
Investors panicked and sold their stocks rapidly, so that their value fell dramatically. Although not many Canadians owned stocks, this "crash" caused many to lose their jobs and their product prices to drop.
What was the way in which the stock market crash led to the Depression?