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A thousand men left the work camps of interior BC by freight train to protest camp conditions.
What is On to Ottawa Trek
100
This was a socialist party and later turned into the NDP.
What is the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)
100
Young, jobless, homeless men drifting from one place to another, looking for work that was never there. Penniless, they traveled across the country by ¨hopping¨ freight trains, some even riding on the roof or clung to the rods.
What is "Riding the Rods"
100
This Canadian party has a liberal platform.
What is The Liberal Party of Canada
300
Formed the Communist Party of Canada
Who is Hardial Bains
300
On to Ottawa Trek resulted in this when the RCMP stopped the men in Regina
What is Regina Riot
300
This party was in power in Alberta until 1971
What is the Social Credit Party
300
Purchasing stocks with a small down payment and the rest on credit, Considered to be a cause of the stock market crash.
What is "buying on margin"
300
In 1934 the liberals came to power in Ontario by talking about the struggles of the "little man" but their leader wasn't truly Liberal he was a conservative.
Who is Mitch Hepburn
500
In the 1935 election in Alberta he/she won a land slide victory leading a new party.
Who is William Aberhart
500
Maurice Duplessis formed this party which blamed the social and economic problems of Quebec on the English minority that controlled the province's economy.
What is Union Nationale
500
This party believed Capitalism is wasteful.
What is the Social Credit Party
500
3 Hollywood movies were made about them and the Supreme Court deemed that they were denied "normal lives"
What is the Dionne Quintuplets
500
Unions were viewed as plots of this ideology to overthrow the government and spread ideology.
What is Communism