1. The Great Depression
The Great Depression had greatly affected Canadians and businesses in terms of unemployment and loss of world trade but Canada's dependency on the western agricultural industry made economic matters worse. During the Great Depression of the 1930's, the western agricultural and prairie wheat industry faced an economic disaster. The impact of the Great Depression was devastating to the Canadian economy because it relied heavily on the production and exporting of agricultural products. ... There was less worldwide demand for Canadian agricultural goods, mainly prairie wheat. ... The ...
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