The Great Depression


Targets



This lesson is about what happened to people in Canada during the Great Depression, a period of hardship in the 1930s.  You will learn about...

  • the causes of the Depression
  • natural disasters that affected people’s lives
  • city and rural life during this time
  • homelessness
  • survival methods people used

Introduction


Would you imagine that these photos were taken in Canada? 

Read on to find out when these photos were taken, and what was going on in our country at that time.

Hungry unemployed men hop train, 1933? By William James - City of Toronto Archives, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3317196
A soup kitchen in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1931.