1. The Great Depression 1929 to 1939

2. Life in the Roaring Twenties

3. Great Depression Caused By: 1)Overproduction 2)Tariffs 3)Canada’s Reliance on Staple Goods 4)Canada’s Close Links to the United States 5)Credit Buying 6)Stock Market

5. Terrible Drought Strikes the West

6. Dust Storms Blow Across North America

8. Farms Wiped Out and Farmers Bankrupted

9. Locusts Eat Crops

10. 1 in 5 Canadians Unemployed – Highest Level Ever

11. Prime Minister R.B. Bennett (1930 – 35)

12. Bennett Buggy in Saskatchewan

13. Family Eviction

14. Destitute Saskatchewan Family

15. Riding the Rails

16. Unemployed Heading West Pass Unemployed Heading East

17. Gunny Sack Parade, Vancouver

18. Depression Soup Kitchen

19. Relief Hotel Squatter’s Hotel Room

20. “Bennettville” Outside of Toronto

21. Extreme political parties gain popularity

22. Relief Camps Open for Unemployed Men

25. Clearing Forest

26. Building Roads

27. Factory

28. Men Leaving Relief Camps for On- to-Ottawa Trek

30. Men Join Trek in Every City Along Path

31. Bennett Takes Hard Line Against Trekkers

32. Regina Riot, July 1 st 1935

33. July 2 nd Newspaper Headline

34. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal

35. “Fireside Chats” to Calm the Nation

36. Massive Public Works Projects to Employ Men

37. Great Depression Also Affected Germany. Depression Ends With the Invasion of Poland in 1939.