The Great Depression The Dust Bowl I chose

The Great Depression

The Dust Bowl I chose this picture because during the 1930’s the Prairies went through a drought known as the Dust Bowl. People could not buy food at the time and there was not even enough to supply people. Also, Canada depended on raw material export and with their main source of food export gone, they could not even make that much money.

Food line at the Yonge Street Mission in Toronto in the 1930 s I chose this picture because the result of the stock market crash caused business’ to raise their prices immensely to make profit. But, many people were unemployed and homeless so they could not make any money. Luckily, church's opened soup kitchens to help to hungry survive. This was an essential reason so many people did not starve during the Great Depression.

Escaping The Great Depression and Poverty I chose this picture because after the stock market crashed, millions of people lost millions of dollars. Many of those people were sent in to poverty. Some people could not deal with this, so they committed suicide. For some it was not even poverty, some people just could not handle the stress.

Crime Increases I chose this picture because many people were left without jobs and could not go to school anymore because of the Stock Market Crash. With no more money and struggling to survive, many people turned to crime. At the time, committing a crime was a whole lot easier to do than finding a good paying job. This means that crime rates skyrocketed because of poor living and poverty.

Desperate Americans look for work I chose this picture because after the stock market crashed, it caused many factories to go bankrupt. Those factories had to shut down and give away their factories as collateral to pay for their debts. This left millions of workers without jobs, hungry and homeless.

Strikers from unemployment relief camps climbing on boxcars in Kamloops, British Columbia I chose this picture because this picture depicts the On-to-Ottawa Trek which was a long trip where thousands of unemployed men protested against the terrible conditions in the federal relief camps. Sadly, these relief camps had a hidden fee, unemployed men were forced to work in work camps for as little as 20 cents a day. This led to rebellions and strikes within Canada.

Tariffs I chose this picture because, as a result of the Stock Market Crash, many countries lost a lot of money, especially Canada. One of the ways countries tried to make money was by making high tariffs. Since other countries had such high tariffs, it was hard for Canada to make a profit

Bennett Buggy I chose this picture because this picture depicts a Bennett Buggy which is an automobile pulled around by a horse. It also depicts how desperate people were after the SMC. People could not afford to pay for gasoline for their cars. Also, at the time R. B. Bennett was the current Prime Minister and he was not dealing with the depression that well. That is where the name for these buggies came from.

R. B. Bennett I chose this picture because during the Great Depression, R. B. Bennet was the Prime minister of Canada. Bennet won the election in 1930 with strong feelings toward fixing the Great Depression. Bennett realized that fixing this problem was not going to be that easy. He made unpopular decisions which resulted in him being ridiculed. For example, Bennett place high tariffs on other countries which resulted in them putting tariffs on Canadian goods. This means that no one was buying Canadian goods, reducing income within the country. Bennett did a lot for the country but it was not good things.

Dried up farmland I chose this picture because after farms were decimated by droughts, insects and erosion, Canada lost a major source of income, wheat. A huge chunk of Canada’s income was wheat and they had lost all of it. Also, even with the remaining wheat they had left, they could not sell it because of high tariffs. Not only was wheat a source of income, it was a source of food. Many people starved because of little wheat and food and high prices. This is a huge contribution to the Great Depression being so harsh on Canada.