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(Single men) barely passing by, most don’t have a house so they sleep on the streets. They can’t find employment and if they can it’s at a government camp with hellish conditions
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(Farmers) The dust bowl was a decade of drought, extreme cold and dust where farmers have to fight very hard to keep their crops in the plains. This made it very hard to survive and make a living.
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(Workers) during the depression there was a lack of jobs most of which were badly paid due to abundant workers from the war. Factories employed women and men as the women now had a lot of experience in factories, the working conditions were terrible causing many to complain due to inadequate commodities or massive crowds.
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(Single men) The war starts, the soldiers are treated well while they train and fight, it gave a lot of the homeless a job and a home. Over the course of the war well over 1 million men enlist to join the army.
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(farmers) Weather conditions are better, crop production is way higher due to more people helping out and this labor is cheaper.
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(Workers) most factories were now creating munitions or weapons for the war and these factories employed only women as men were off at war, though many women wanted to stay in the textile fields propaganda helped convince them working to work on these weapons and munitions the most famous propaganda poster being “Ronnie the Bren gun girl”
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“Canada in World War II.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 19 Feb. 2021, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_in_World_War_II.
Cook, Sharon A., and Paul Mennill. The Depression Years: Canada in the 1930's. Prentice-Hall Canada, 1981. Jennyhootoo. The Story Veronica Foster- the Inspiration behind Rosie the Riveter , YouTube , 25 Oct. 2015, youtu.be/teYgsbAZweA.
