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Farmers in the prairies were having a hard time making money and surviving in the Great Depression. There was a long drought that caused there to be no food and all of the top soil went dry and blew away. There was a lack of rain and high temperatures making it extremely hard to grow any sort of crops. This is a massive change for the farmers because before they were turning out many crops but because of the dust bowl about 250 000 farmers left their farms. This made more people job hunting.
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Jews were not let into Canada after fleeing from Germany on MS St. Louis. They were not admitted because King thought there would be riots if he agreed to a policy that admitted Jews. Between 1933 and 1945, they admitted less than 5000 jews. The reason is that Canada was recovering from the great depression and had to fight in a war. Also King thought there would be riots because of the differing beliefs Because Canada didn't let many Jews into Canada, it didn't do much to effect Canada.
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On July 1, 1935, single men from the relief camps held a meeting in Market Square in Regina after getting denied by the PM. RCMP charge the crowd and the crowd fights back with sticks and rocks. 1 police officer was killed, 130 trekkers were arrested. Prime Minister King was satisfied cause he squashed a 'communist' revolt. The RCMP charged them because the trekkers were angry about living conditions in the relief camps and were making their way to Ottawa to force the PM to help them more.
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There was no change for the relief camp trekkers except for a long journey back to Alberta. They also are not allowed back into the relief camps so it does change a little bit.
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For Japanese and Germans, it didn't matter if you were a Canadian citizen or not, you have to register with the government. They were consider enemy aliens. After the pearl harbour bombing, the RCMP put many Japanese in camps. After all they could have been spies for the enemies. This changed Canada and the minorities. They spent a lot of money and manpower into making internment camps and getting minorities into them. This also made lots of citizens leave Canada after the war had ended.
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The government bought so many crops from the farmers that they had a surplus of to send to the Allies. Between 1940 and 1945, net income was at it's highest since 1929. This was because the war started so the government needed food so the farmers got out of the depression. This was a big change, the war was a big help to get Canada out of the depression. Even though we lost a lot of soldiers.
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PM Mackenzie wanted to pass the War Measures Act again, so they put it to a vote. In Quebec an organization was made to campaign against conscription. in Quebec, 73% voted no but 80% of Canada voted yes. They wanted conscription back because Germany got England and France and they were wanting more troops. This is change because there were big riots over ending conscription at the end of WWI. Then they bring it back by a vote. So they changed what they already changed.
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Conscription in Canada. (n.d.). Retrieved January 10, 2021, from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/conscription MS St. Louis. (n.d.). Retrieved January 10, 2021, from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ms-st-louis Internment in Canada. (n.d.). Retrieved January 10, 2021, from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/internment
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Food of War. (n.d.). Retrieved January 10, 2021, from https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/money_02.html#:~:text=The%20government%20bought%20food%20commodities,%244.4%20billion%20to%20%2412.3%20billion. Neill, Elaine. "On-to-Ottawa Trek" History CHC2DI. December 2020. Bluevale Collegiate Institute. Google presentation Neill, Elaine. "The Great Depression" History CHC2DI. December 2020. Bluevale Collegiate Institute. Google presentation
