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Events. January 10 – Lomer Gouin becomes Quebec 's 15th Lieutenant Governor, serving until his death on March 28, 1929. March 22 – The Canadian schooner and rum-runner I'm Alone is sunk by the US Coast Guard 's USCGC Dexter. April 4 – Henry George Carroll becomes Quebec 's 16th Lieutenant Governor.
Oct 18, 2013 · It began to take shape on 24 October 1929, Black Thursday. “Stock Speculators Shaken in Wild Day of Panic,” shouted the front page of the next day’s Toronto Globe. The New York Stock Exchange, the accompanying stories reported, had experienced massive declines in wild trading, with a record 12.8 million shares sold.
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The Great Depression. Following the New York stock market crash in October 1929, Canada sank into 10 long years of economic and social despair. The New York stock market collapsed in the fall of 1929, as stocks lost 39 per cent of their value, or 10 times the U.S. government’s annual budget. The crash unleashed a wave of disaster that would ...
Apr 26, 2024 · Great Depression, worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy, and economic theory.
Jul 11, 2013 · The number of Canada’s deportations rose from fewer than 2,000 in 1929 to more than 7,600 just three years later. Almost 30,000 immigrants were forcibly returned to their countries of origin over the course of the decade, primarily because of illness or unemployment.
Mar 27, 2024 · The Wall Street crash of 1929, also called the Great Crash, was a sudden and steep decline in stock prices in the United States in late October of that year. Over the course of four business days—Black Thursday (October 24) through Black Tuesday (October 29)—the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped from 305.85 points to 230.07 points ...
