The Great Depression

Question 1

Relief Vouchers

Answer 1

single men were given two days of work every three weeks and were often paid in cash and with relief vouchers.

Question 2

Soup Kitchens

Answer 2

serve free meals to hungry men, women and children.

Question 3

Bennett Buggies

Answer 3

a car which had its engine, windows and sometimes framework taken out and was pulled by a horse. Named after Richard Bennie to “mock” him

Question 4

W. L. Mackenzie King

Answer 4

Canadian statesman and politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms

Question 5

Hobo Jungles

Answer 5

encampment of unemployed, and homeless people during the depression

Question 6

Pogey/ Dole

Answer 6

thousands of unemployed men and women turned to government relief for help during the Great Depression. Known as the dole. “pogey” – government relief payments are given to those who had no alternative source of income

Question 7

William Aberhart

Answer 7

known as “Bible Bill” for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh premier of Alberta

Question 8

Dionne Quintuplets

Answer 8

are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, near the village of Corbeil.

Question 9

Relief Camps

Answer 9

the federal government sanctioned the creation of a system of unemployment relief camps, where in exchange for room and board, single men did physically demanding labour.

Question 10

Riding the Rods

Answer 10

teen hobos during the 1930s, would jump onto cargo trains insearch of jobs, they also did this during the on to Ottawa trek

Question 11

On to Ottawa Trek

Answer 11

a mass protest movement in Canada in 1935 sparked by unrest among unemployed single men in federal relief camps principally in Western Canada.

Question 12

J.S. Woodsworth

Answer 12

pre–First World War pioneer of the Canadian Social Gospel, a Christian religious movement with social democratic values and links to organized labour.

Question 13

explain the background causes of the Great Depression.

Answer 13

mass unemployment, banking panics, and sharp increases in rates of poverty and homelessness

Question 14

Why did Canadians turn to alternative political parties (CCF, Social Credit, and Communist Party) during the Great Depression?

Answer 14

Widespread losses of jobs and savings ultimately transformed the country by triggering the birth of social welfare, a variety of populist political movements, and a more activist role for government in the economy.

Question 15

Outline the problems faced by farmers in the West that continued into the 1930s.

Answer 15

Farmers who rented the land and farmhouse couldn’t pay rent, and farmers who owned their land couldn’t make payments.

Question 16

4. What requirements did unemployed Canadians have to meet to work in a relief camp?

Answer 16

workers must be in Canada with valid status have an employer-specific work permit or have been working under a work permit exemption

Question 17

Identify four complaints of relief camp workers.

Answer 17

from the poor quality food, the lack of leisure facilities (bathrooms and showers), and that the men were only paid twenty cents per day.