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The Great Depression, Before the Great Depression Canada's economy was…

- - - - In farmlands it was the worst. They couldn't transport wheat and other goods as much. They couldn't sell it either because of the economics. They could sell it only for a record low price. So farmers got paid almost nothing.
        
        During the years that the crops actually grew farmers had more difficulties. Huge flocks of grasshoppers took over the farm. So big that they blocked the sun. In a blink of an eye your crops are gone.
        
        Before the Great Depression people often moved out of cities to find farms to grow their own food. When the Great Depression started people trying to find farms they would run into more armies of people trying to find farms because people were poor.
        
        The federal government thought that the provinces needed to help the unemployed workers. But the provinces didn't have enough money to do that. The government of cities did some help but often not enough.
        
        The provinces did not help single men so those men traveled the country looking for jobs and the government thought these men would become dangerous.
        
        So the government created a camp called relief camps were those single men worked but the goal of these camps was to take control of the men so they couldn't get dangerous and start shooting for depression.
        
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        During this hard time it brought people together.
        
        Since there were so many homeless people people had to help each other out..
        
        Churches and charities provided lots of food and shelter to people. People became nicers and kinder in there hearts
- - - - Many people went into debt and same with companies because they borrowed money.
        
        All the companies that went into debt didn't care about their debt.
        
        Then banks were worried that people and companies had way to much debt. They were also worried that they wouldn't pay them so the banks forced people to pay there debt.
        
        The Banks stopped lending money to people and companies.
        
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        Since the economy was really good people had lots of money so the banks let people "buy now and pay the bank later".
- - - - They Canadian army spent millions of dollars on guns and tanks and stuff for the war so which helped people make more money which led to more people that were not employed got more jobs.
        
        What helped even more was that they did win the war which did not help much with jobs but with being social and loyal to your fellow workers and it made people happier.
        
        The sale prices for food and others were better and could be more affordable for people when people could get a job.
        
        So now people started paying more and buying more which kept the economy going which put a stop to the Great Depression.
        
        It was mostly the spending of the army for there needs that kept the economy going and earned people more jobs.
    - - It was mostly the woman that got job's and that was the start to woman independents.
        
        It is actually true that the very first year of World War 2 was when the Great Depression was the worst because almost no one had jobs then it started to get better and better until the Great Depression ended.
        
        That was only because the government sent millions of men that did have jobs then they worked for the army and lots did die.
    - - The end was when people started to spend more and the prices were more affordable.
- - - - Men got jobs but they were the unsafe jobs like carrying heavy steel and heavy items that are dangerous.
        
        Many of the men that had these jobs (A lot) died because of all these dangerous jobs.
        
        Before the Great Depression men working was all you would see, during the Great Depression there were starting to be more women working and less men.
        
        At the same time, though, it was hard enough for you to get a job during this time. You got really lucky to get a job.
        
        The government made a law that it was illegal for more than 1 person in the family to have a job. They made this because they thought during the Great Depression it was hard to get a job and they thought it would be unfair to have 2 and other people that had no jobs will get really mad and become bad people.
        
        When this law was made many women that had jobs left it to the men and returned to housekeeping. Another reason is that if the women and the men worked at the same time those housekeeping duty's could not be done.
        
        If you had a daughter around the age of 10 they went to camps on how to take care of a house and housekeep.
        
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      - Women usually worked in service and the community; teachers, and doctors.
        
        Women did get under payed though, or also they got lower payments and there bosses got the money to them really late. Mostly teachers got the late payment though.
        
        Although the payment these women got were not very not much it helped the family to buy food. At this time in history almost any money you get is important.
        
        When the law was made women that did work got payed even less then before which was nearly enough to pay their bills and pay for food.