suffered more than any other area in Canada. This time frame brought for

the farmers many years of droughts and grasshopper plagues, as each year

Depression on the Prairie provinces was devastating and it's impact on the

region was social, political and economical. During this period

unemployment reached high levels, prices of products were falling and

purchasing power was getting very weak. To try to help out unemployed

people, mostly men, the government introduced relief camps. During the

1930's in Prairie Canada, the Great Depression created harsh conditions and

Stock Market crashed on October 24, 1929. Another important cause was that:

Later in the 1930's, the wide adoption of the gold exchange in

many countries was widely criticized as a great mistake which

greatly contributed to the severity and length of the Great

In Canada, wheat, the most important export, was being over-produced

around the world, despite the fact that the 1928 supply of wheat was still

A good reason for the stock market c

weeks. The cause of devastation to the crops was usually from dust storms.

international trade. Wages were always falling behind.

Portraits made were of "still lives, landscapes, depiction of people at

failed." 20 Prime Minister R.B. Bennett introduced unemployment insurance

Prairies. "In May and June of 1937 the weather ended up being hotter,

Some topics in this essay:
Maynard Keynes, Weather Prairies, Russian Thistle, RB Bennett, Regina Riot, Street's Black, British Columbia, Canadian Prairie, Stock Market, Stock Exchange, prairie provinces, relief camps, rb bennett, stock market, world war, russian thistle, effects depression, create jobs, dust storms, government introduced, market crash 1929, stock market crashed, introduced unemployment insurance, 1930's prairie canada, stock market crash,