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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.
Great Depression in Canada. A Montreal soup kitchen in 1931. The worldwide Great Depression of the early 1930s was a social and economic shock that left millions of Canadians unemployed, hungry and often homeless. Few countries were affected as severely as Canada during what became known as the "Dirty Thirties", due to Canada's heavy dependence ...
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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.
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 ...
August 25 – Canada's first major air disaster occurred when bad weather caused a BC Airways Ford Trimotor plane to crash in Puget Sound, Washington; Science and technology. Frank Morse Robb of Ontario obtains a patent for the first Electronic Organ, the Robb Wave Organ. Sports. The Winter Olympics take place in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Jul 11, 2013 · In 1935, a protest against conditions in the camps culminated in the Regina Riot. This was Canada’s most violent episode of the Depression. One policeman was killed, dozens of men were injured and 130 people were arrested. It was followed by the similar Bloody Sunday confrontation in Vancouver on 19 June 1938.
Sep 11, 2019 · October 24, 1929, marked the beginning of a four-day stock market crash in the United States that had global ramifications. Canada, with its resource-based economy, suffered immensely. The pain was amplified by a drought that plagued Western Canada during the dirty thirties. The depression ended in 1939 with the advent of the Second World War ...
