The document provides an overview of the economic conditions and political responses during the Great Depression era in Canada in the 1930s. It describes the stock market crash of 1929 and resulting economic hardships. Politically, it contrasts the responses of Prime Ministers Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett and policies of Hoover and Roosevelt in the U.S. It also discusses the rise of new political parties in Canada like the CCF and the "On to Ottawa Trek" protest by unemployed workers seeking relief.
14. A nice house warming gift from Mackenzie-King to the incoming PM
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25. Which two parties were the “old” parties? “ What! The kids and Missus and I have to get out…after no crops and no prices, where shall we go?”
26. Major James Coldwell MP Leader of CCF from 1942 - 1960 Coldwell and farmer labor assures: we hold title ; thank God, my fear of losing home gone Grab all
27. See cartoon activity sheet 4-1 CCF Social Credit Union Nationale Led by JS Woodsworth; supported farmers, labourers,socialists, intellectuals,discontent-ed Liberals; its politics included public ownership of KEY industries, social programs for the needy, government spending on public works Led by “Bible Bill” Aberhart ; it appealed to many voters in Alberta, where he was elected in 1935; its policies included citizens receiving a $25 monthly dividend to buy goods. The additional money was intended to simulate the economy. Led by Maurice Duplessis ; supported by people in rural areas and nationalists; its policies included the belief that the English minority controlled Quebec’s economy
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30. Life in Hitler’s Nazi Germany Positive Aspects Negative Aspects Mega-projects/rearmament = employment Direction = Hope in desperate times Versailles abandoned = return of national pride/saved reparation payments Annexations = wealth and power Self-determination for Germans = corrects some misplaced persons from Versailles Versailles abandoned = militarization/isolation Nuremburg Decrees/racism = loss of human/citizen rights Loss of democracy = one party state Brown Shirts/mob violence = loss of security Book burnings = loss of freedom Unions outlawed = loss of freedom
31. Canada’s Failure of the St.Louis Anti-Semitic advisors (from the South) to FDR persuaded him to block a USA landing - Mackenzie King who was visiting Washington with the Royal Family also gave in. Canada accepted fewer than 5000 Jewish refugees during the Second World War. Brazil accepted 27,000!
Aboriginals - only $5/month - expected to live off of the land - but now they’re on reserves? Chinese - only half the relief as a white man Jews - anti-Semitism - stereotypes about “money handlers/ + immigrants in general - 10,000 deported before all immig stopped in 1931
Poster = Don’t allow the links of the chain welded by “the blacksmith” to rust
Abandoned prairie farm, newspaper,engineless automobile, roasted wheat used for a hot drink, broiled chestnuts
Italian Fasci - bundle of sticks with axe - Roman judicial symbol of power and strength Swastika Nationalist symbol of arrows and _____________.
Fable: first mice voted for black cat = Tories;next white cat = Liberals; eventually a mouse to run the gov’t. The mouse leader was called a Bolshevik and imprisoned. The speech ends by saying you can lock up people and mice, but not ideas!
BC had a warmer climate
City’s tar boiler/ havoc in the streets after the riot/ rioters converge on a man being grabbed by police