The Great Depression

1929 to 1939

Life in the Roaring Twenties

Great Depression Caused By:

1) Overproduction

2) Tariffs

3) Canada’s Reliance on Staple Goods

4) Canada’s Close Links to the United States

5) Credit Buying

6) Stock Market

Terrible Drought Strikes the West

Dust Storms Blow Across North America

                                                                      

Farms Wiped Out and Farmers Bankrupted

Locusts Eat Crops

Highest Rates of Unemployment in Canadian Highest Rates of Unemployment in Canadian History were experienced during The Depression.History were experienced during The Depression.

1 in 5 Canadians Unemployed – Highest Level Ever

Prime Minister

R.B. Bennett

(1930 – 35)

                                                           

                 

Bennett Buggy in Saskatchewan

Family Eviction

                                                            

Destitute Saskatchewan

Family

Riding the Rails

Unemployed Heading West Pass Unemployed Heading East

Gunny Sack Parade, Vancouver

Depression Soup Kitchen

Relief Hotel

Squatter’s Hotel Room

“Bennettville” Outside of Toronto

Extreme political parties gain popularity

Relief Camps Open for Unemployed Men

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Clearing Forest

Building Roads

Factory

                                                                   

 

Men Leaving Relief Camps for On-to-Ottawa Trek

Men Join Trek in Every

City Along Path

Bennett Takes Hard Line Against Trekkers

Regina Riot, July 1st 1935

July 2nd Newspaper Headline

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal

“Fireside Chats” to Calm the Nation

Massive Public Works Projects to Employ Men

Great Depression

Also Affected Germany. Depression Ends With

the Invasion of Poland in

1939.