Drought & depression

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"The Great Depression of the 1930s often recalls images of the drought-stricken Great Plains. Prolonged drought exacerbated the economic effects of the Great Depression to such a degree that the prairies became the epicentre of the disaster in Canada. Between 1929 and 1932, per capita incomes fell by 49% in Manitoba, 61% in Alberta and an astounding 72% in Saskatchewan. The result was enormous social and political upheaval that sent shockwaves th...

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Depressions 1929 Prairie Provinces

Droughts Prairie Provinces History 20th century

Prairie Provinces Economic conditions 1905-1945

Prairie Provinces Politics and government 1905-1945

Prairie Provinces Social conditions 1905-1945

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History of the Prairie West series History of the Prairie West series ; v. 6 History of the Prairie West series ; vol 6

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ISBN:

9780889775398

Description:

ix, 357 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Drought and depression

Notes:

Canadiana
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The dry belt and changing aridity in the Palliser Triangle, 1895-2000 / Gregory P. Marchildon, Jeremy Pittman, and David J. Sauchyn
Schools and social disintegration in the Alberta dry belt of the twenties / David C. Jones
Institutional adaptation to drought and the special areas of Alberta, 1909-1939 / Gregory P. Marchildon
History, public memory and the land abandonment crisis of the 1920s / Curt McManus
Bienfait : origins and legacy of the coal miners' strike of 1931 / Stephen Endicott
Unemployed struggles in Saskatchewan and Canada, 1930-1935 / Lorne Brown
No help for the farm help : the farm employment plans of the 1930s in prairie Canada / Cecilia Danysk
Soldier settlement and depression settlement in the forest fringe of Saskatchewan / John McDonald
Homesteading in northern Alberta during the Great Depression : a life history approach / Clinton N. Westman
The Red Cross and relief in Alberta, 1920s-1930s / Nancy M. Sheehan
From short-term emergency to long-term crisis : public works projects in Saskataoon, 1929-1932 / Eric J. Strikwerda
Robert Weir : forgotten farmer-minister in R.B. Bennett's depression-era cabinet / Gregory P. Marchildon and Carl Anderson
Alberta social credit reappraised : the radical character of the early social credit movement / Alvin Finkel
The rural prairie novel and the Great Depression / Victor Carl Friesen

Control Number:

2413343

Other Authors:

Marchildon, Gregory P., 1956- editor

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