The Great Depression 1929-1939

The most searing decade in Canadian history began in 1929, symbolized by the stock market crash, and ended in 1939 when the Second World War created jobs for everybody. In those ten years more than a million and a half Canadians were on relief, 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes on the boxcars, dissidents were jailed or deported, demonstrators had their heads broken, and ordinary citizens rioted in the streets. When it was over, Canada was a different kind of country. This is the first book to tell the full chronological story....