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The great depression is over now, there is no major drought in Canada, and there are no huge dust storms. Farmers now have better equipment and there are no huge storms of grasshoppers flying around eating everything. Mostly everything from the dust bowl has changed now, and farmers are doing good.
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During the great depression, there was a huge drought in the prairies which caused huge dust storms to form, this was called the dust bowl. The drought caused huge swarms of grasshoppers to fly through farms and eat everything they saw. Farmers would be left with nothing on their farm and would not be able to replant anything because of the drought. Lots of farmers were forced to leave their farms behind and try to find other ways to make money.
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Relief camps were created to help unemployed single Canadian men who couldn't get a job and desperately needed food and other living supplies during the great depression. The camps would give men basic living supplies if they did a lot of physical labour. Lots of people didn't like relief camps and attacked the government because they didn't make a program that would pay reasonable wage for work and instead created relief camps. These attacks ended up leading to the Regina Riot.
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Relief camps were a decent way of keeping people from starving, but they only targeted a very selective group of people. Relief camps don't exist anymore, and the great depression is over. Jobs are paying reasonably again, and lots of people have jobs now. Barely anything from relief camps has stayed the same and if anything important came from them I can't think of anything other than keeping Canadians alive.
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With new jobs opening up, and lots of men going to war, there were lots of new open job opportunities. Women took advantage of these opportunities, and a huge amount of them got jobs. Women were paid less than men for doing the same work, but still helped out a lot during the war.
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When world war 2 began, the need for food grew heavily because soldiers could only fight if they had food. The government had created a new program for multiple countries to bring their food together and transport them on supply boats. Canadian farmers began to produce a lot more food, which lead to them making more money. Less farmers were working because a lot of them had gone to the war, and farms became bigger.
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After world war 2, farms have increased in size, and there are way less farmers now. Farms are still producing a lot, and they are constantly selling things all around the world. World war 2 really ended up benefiting farmers.
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Women now work very close to the same amount that men do in society today. This is mainly because they proved themselves in both world war 1 and world war 2. Women still get paid less, but it's a very tiny difference compared to how much money they were missing out on during world war 1 and 2.
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When world war 2 started, it ended the great depression because lots of new jobs were created. These jobs were mainly focused on military weapon production, ammunitions, and other supplies for the war. A lot of the workers were also women.
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After the war, the great depression didn't come back. Usually when wars end, it makes the economy way better like as seen after world war 1 during the roaring twenties. The economy isn't as perfect as it was after the war, but it's still really stable now. There are not as many military weaponry production jobs anymore, but there are still lots of new jobs with increasing technology.
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During the world war 2, Canada needed more help in their military. They had seen women help a lot before during world war 1 with weapon production and taking jobs over, so Canada decided to allow them to join the Canadian forces, and even encouraged it. They were not allowed to fight in battles, but they could help care for the wounded, and manufacture weapons/planes, as well as working to decrypt hidden messages like in camp x.
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After women helped in both world war 1 by working, and world war 2 by working and joining the Canadian forces, it showed Canada that women can do the same things as men. This lead to women being able to permanently get jobs, and join military divisions. The issue of women getting paid less than men still exists, but has been reduced significantly since the world wars. Women working regularly and having freedom to join Canadian forces has made a big impact on the world today.
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Museum, Canadian War. “The War Economy and Controls: Agriculture.” WarMuseum.ca - Democracy at War - Agriculture - Canada and the War, www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/canadawar/agriculture_e.html. Canada, Veterans Affairs. “Women at War.” Historical Sheet - Second World War - History - Veterans Affairs Canada, 14 Feb. 2019, www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/historical-sheets/women.
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Farmers Produce More Food for War in World War II, livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/money_02.html. Seixas, Peter. History Uncovered. 1st ed., Nelson, 2014. “Striking Women.” World War II: 1939-1945 | Striking Women, www.striking-women.org/module/women-and-work/world-war-ii-1939-1945.
