1930s: Solutions for the
Depression
CHC2D8
Ms. Gluskin
Day 1
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
• By 1933 1 out of 5 Canadians were out of
work.
• From 1929 to 1933, 20% of Canadians
depended on relief.
Freeman-Shaw, Elizabeth and Jan Haskings-Winner. Canadian Sources: Investigated. 1914 to the Present.
Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, Ltd., 2008. Pages 50 and 52.
In such hard times, would the government have
to change its policies?
Gov’t Words
• Policy / Strategy
• Political party (group of people with the same beliefs
about government – they want to get elected to be the
government)
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Election / Elect
Provincial
Federal (national)
Municipal (city)
Prime Ministers
King= Liberal Party, Bennett = Conservative Party
Vocabulary 104-105
• Alarmed (adjective) = shocked
• Unemployment relief (noun) = help for people
without jobs
• Federal/provincial = levels of government
• Five cent piece (noun) = a nickel
• Fed up with = had enough of
• Strategy = way of doing things
• Limited role = small or restricted role
Homework
Finish:
• TLS Worksheet # 2.2.6 (King and Bennett Venn
Diagram)
Day 2
NEW POLITICAL PARTIES – HOW DID
EACH PARTY WANT TO HELP PEOPLE IN
THE DEPRESSION?
Vocabulary 94-95
• Radio preacher (noun) = a person who spoke about religion
on the radio
• Demand (noun) = when a lot of people want something
• Premier (noun) = leader of the provincial government
• Vowed (verb) = promised to do something
• Democratic socialism (noun) = a political belief system
• Social programs (noun) = government policies to keep people
from falling into poverty
Social Credit
Believed in giving people money in order to help them in
hard times.
CCF
Cooperative
Commonwealth
Federation
Believed in government
helping lower class
people, workers and the
unemployed.
“comradeship in unity”
(cooperative commonwealth)
Union Nationale
Maurice Duplessis,
Premier of Quebec,
1936-1939
Believed that blaming
Quebec’s problems on
English-speaking
businesses would help the
French-speaking, Roman
Catholic people.
Homework
Finish:
TLS Worksheet #2.1.7 (New Political Parties)
Day 3
RELIEF CAMPS
Photos from About.com Canada Online. Great Depression in
Canada Pictures. 2014.
http://canadaonline.about.com/od/historyphotos/ig/GreatDepression-Canada/ (March 19, 2014).
Living Conditions
Temporary housing at relief camp
in Northern Ontario.
Dormitories at Trenton
Relief Camp in Ontario
Work
Vocabulary 106-107
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Relief (noun) = help, assistance
Remote (adjective) = far away, isolated
Grateful (adjective) = thankful
Trek (noun) = trip, journey
Hitched a ride (expression) = jumped on
Sympathy (noun) = feel emotion for someone
• It is easy to feel sympathy for people who lost their homes
and their jobs.
• Protest rally (noun) = when a group of people gather to
show their opposition to something
• Riot (noun) = when a protest gets violent
On-to-Ottawa Trek
Protestors wanted to go from British Columbia to Ottawa to complain about the
camps.
Did the Gov’t Help Enough?
Did the Gov’t Do its Job?
Somewhat
Your answer
depends on your
perspective.
Gov’t
Workers
Homework
• Finish:
– TLS Worksheet #2.2.7 (Relief from Both Sides)
Day 4
CHANGING ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
Primary Source Evidence
• Bennett’s radio address, January 2, 1935
– “In the last five years, great changes have taken
place in the world. The old order is gone. It will
not return. … Reform means government
intervention; it means government control and
regulation; it means the end of laissez-faire.
Reform heralds certain recovery.”
Did Bennett think government’s
role had changed?
Role of Government
Active Role
(hands on)
•“Taking care of people
during hard times.”
•“provide social programs,
such as welfare and
medical care, to help
people in need.”
•“These social programs
would be funded through
taxes paid by everyone.”
Limited Role (hands off)
•“Defend the country
during war”
•“Regulate immigration”
•“Build things that
everyone used such as
railways and roads.”
Vocabulary 97
• Limited role = little government involvement
• Regulate (verb) = to make rules
• Social programs (noun) = government services
to help people
Did the government’s role change
in these areas?
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Worksheet on the Changing Role of Gov’t
• Each group should place the events on the
spectrum of government involvement
– Group 1: 1-2
– Group 2: 3-4
– Group 3: 5-6
– Group 4: 7-8
– Group 5: 9-10
– Group 6: 11-13
a lot
a little