Canada The Great Depression: Relief Camps and the On to Ottawa Trek.

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Canada The Great Depression: Relief Camps and the On to Ottawa Trek

Initial Crash ●Immediate drop in exports due to worldwide economic troubles. ●Result: Drop in production as industrial superpowers closed down due to low profits. ●90% of people in rural areas forced on welfare as farms go bankrupt.

Two men looking for jobs during the Great Depression

Relief Camps ●Established to help the economy. ●Single, unemployed men could work there for 6 days a week. ●Received: 20 cents/hr, work clothes, medical care, 3 meals a day, and a place to stay.

On to Ottawa Trek ●Caused due to low wages and hard labor undertaken in relief camps. ●Began as strikes in order to become unionized. ●Several men from the camps journeyed to Ottawa, the capital, to protest. ●Stopped by the RCMP after a couple months.

Photograph of the On to Ottawa Trek

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