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What changed between 1929 and earlier years was that before October 1929 women were not seen as "persons" and didn't have the rights they do now. Before this day women could not be appointed to the senate because they weren't persons and because they didn't have the same rights as men.
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Before October 19th 1929 Canadian women were not considered people or "persons". The persons case was the ruling that established the right of women to be appointed to senate. It was earlier declared that women were not considered persons therefore they couldn't be appointed to senate. This case was initiated by a group of five women activists called the famous five. With the courts decision to reverse the previous statement about women not being persons, women could now be appointed to senate.
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When the great depression started, things started going downhill for workers. With Millions of Canadian men and women left unemployed, the government was forced to spend lots on relief programs. However many were still left without enough food, clothing and other necessities for them and their family. Still unemployed workers became angry with the government and demanded better jobs and relief payments, this led to violent riots and protests. Overall this led to poverty, deaths and poor diets.
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The great depression started in 1929 and lasted to 1933, the change that happened from earlier years like around WWI was that there was no great depression before. What changed was that the stock markets crashed, people lost their jobs, people couldn't afford to feed their family's and more. This great depression continued for a few years before it was over in 1933.
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The great depression had huge impacts on farmers, the average Canadian farmer in the prairies income dropped around 60% during the great depression. Meaning they had less than half the amount of resources and money to support their family than they did before. Since so many people lost their jobs and everyone had little to no money, prices for crops and food like corn, wheat and more dropped a lot causing the farmers incomes to become unstable.
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As we know farming during the great depression was very difficult and hard to manage. This was the first time farmers had to go through something like this, with the drought and low income. Prices were dropping so low that farmers were losing their farms because they wen't bankrupt. Unlike farming during WWI where income increased because farmers crops were being exported, now farmers income was decreasing.
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During the 1930's a massive drought hit called the dust bowl also known as the "dirty thirties" lasting nearly a decade, but its long term lasting effects lingered much longer. Drought and economic depression forced prairie farmers to abandon their farms and find work in the city. Large scale dust storms brewed followed by years of drought and environmental disasters. Millions of acres of land had been deemed useless for farming, regular rainfall returned in 1939 ending the dust bowl.
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Droughts happen and there isn't really any way to stop them or fix them, so we just have to try our best to keep farming. Like in past years droughts happen and we can't stop them from happening so every once in a while farmers have to suffer through droughts. Unlike any other droughts the dust bowl lasted nearly a decade causing millions of acres of land useless for farming. What changed from other years with droughts was the length and environmental impact the dust bowl had.
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During WWII women were urged to participate in the war effort, single women aged 20-30 started being conscripted by the government as auxiliaries to the armed forces, civil defense or war industries. After the war was over and men were returning home, women were expected to give up their jobs and go back to just being a wife to their husbands. Although women were expected to give up their jobs after the war roughly 84% of women employed in manufacturing wanted to keep working.
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With the war over things changed like the demand for war supplies declined leading many women to be forced out of their jobs, along with women being pushed out so the man could have their jobs back. With many women still staying on to work after WWII is what changed the workplace forever, that was just the beginning to women working, now its expected for women to work. Something that stayed the same during WWI and WWII was the demand for women to do their part and work.
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With men going off to war again the need for war supplies and jobs went up. That's when more women started working again and were urged to enlist in the war. Before WWII started every one was living their daily lives, men were working their normal jobs. When WWII started and men had to leave to fight, women stepped in and started working. Then when the war ended several years later less men came back because many died fighting, therefor leaving more jobs open for women to keep working.
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Workers during WWI and WWII didn't change much, it was basically the same. Men enlisted and fought in the war while women took over some of their jobs and helped create war supplies. Then when men came home they went back to doing their jobs if they could and women stopped making war supplies because they were no longer in need until the next war. The biggest change was that after WWII a lot of women kept their jobs like working in factories, which led to women working today.
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