Great Depression in Canada
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The worldwide Great Depression of the early 1930s was a social and economic shock that left millions of Canadians unemployed, hungry and often homeless. Few countries were affected as severely as Cana
A Montreal soup kitchen in 1931
Relief Work repairing a highway
The On-To-Ottawa Trek
Blaming it on Bennett: A 1931 political cartoon suggests that Liberals had failed to take responsibility for their own errors.
Great Depression
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The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and in
Great Depression in Canada
…The worldwide Great Depression of the early 1930s was a social and economic shock that left millions of Canadians unemployed, hungry and often homeless. Few countries were affected…
Unemployed people lined up outside a soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, February 1931
A Lone Driller's Water Break drinking from a battered pan during the Texas oil boom in Kilgore, Texas, 1939
Crowd gathering at the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street after the 1929 crash
Willis C. Hawley (left) and Reed Smoot in April 1929, shortly before the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act passed the House of Representatives