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.
Social Credit Board
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The Social Credit Board was a committee in Alberta, Canada, from 1937 until 1948. Composed of Social Credit backbenchers in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, it was created in the aftermath of the
The Social Credit Board was a concession by William Aberhart to stay in power in the wake of the 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt.
Though C. H. Douglas declined to come to Alberta himself, he sent two assistants to advise the Social Credit Board.
The government of Ernest Manning proved less tolerant of the board than Aberhart's had.