The New York Stock Market crashed and the stock markets in Toronto and Montreal crashed.
What day did this happen on?
100
Many wheat fields were destroyed at this time.
What is the cause of the wheat fields dying?
100
Men from work camps would jump of freight trains to move across the country in order to protest.
What was it called when men would hop on these trains?
200
In the depression people began borrowing money from the bank to buy things.
What was this called?
200
When the economy began to fall the unemployment rate began to raise drastically.
What percentage of the unemployment rate increase by?
200
The famous Five-Cent Speech was a huge talk of the time. It was said by our Prime Minister that he believed each provinces should be responsible for their own welfare and he would not pay the welfare to any province with out a Liberal government.
Who was the prime minister when the five cent speech was said?
300
As the economy every where slowed down many countries started to place a tax's in order to bring money into the country.
What is this tax called?
300
Canada was increasingly dependent on the United States when they started to fall into the depression Canada soon followed.
What year did this happen in?
300
The New Deal was a plan to bring Canada out of the depression.
Who made the New Deal?
400
The Social Credit party started giving people money each month to help them buy the necessities that they need.
How much money was given each month?
400
The beginning of the depression started on Black Tuesday when the New York stock market had crashed.
When did this happen?
400
The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation was established in the west and was formed to be an income assistance principle.
Who made the CCF?
500
When the Little New Deal was put to play it gave people shorter work days, established minimum wage and increased relief by 20%.
Who established this New Deal?
500
People relied heavily on the production of wheat, fish, minerals and pulp and paper in order to make money. But all of these things slowly started to bring then down.
What was the main reason for the depression?
500
In 1935 over one thousand men set across the Prairies to protest against the conditions they would have to live in while in the work camps.