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The Great Depression
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. releases their first All-Talking All-Color wide-screen movie, Song of the Flame. Warner Brothers released ten All-Color All-Talking feature movies in Technicolor and scores of shorts and features with colour sequences. -
Chocolate Chip Cookie
The chocolate chip cookie was accidentally developed by Ruth Graves Wakefield. -
Five Cent Piece
Mackenzie King made what many people believe was the biggest political mistake of his career. Providing relief was the responsibility of the provinces and king said that he would not give a "five-cent piece" to any province that did not have a Liberal government. -
Dust Bowl
This was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent wind erosion. -
Election!
In the 1930 Federal election, R.B. Bennet(Conservative) defeated William Lyon Mackenzie King. This was a result of King's optimism and reluctance to offer aid to provincal governments. Bennet promised action, and began this immediately following his election, by raising tariffs on imported manufacturing goods in an effort to create jobs. This led to other countries raising taxes on Canadian goods making the situation worse. -
Empire State Building
Opening of the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world at the time. -
Relief Acts
Bennett's government had passed two relief acts that directed federal money to municipalities on condition that the municipality and the province provided matching funds. -
Statute of Westminster
Canada and other countries under the British Empire sign the Statute of Westminster in 1931 establishing effective parliamentary independence of Canada from the parliament of the United Kingdom. -
Parliament Relief Act
Parliament passed a third relief act which abandoned all public works projects and focused on relief payments to needy individuals. This was equally paid out by the federal, provincial and municipal governments. -
Relief Camps
Federal government began to finance a system of relief camps for single unemployed men. Many of these camps were in isolated areas of B,C, The men would work eight hours a day cutting brush, moving rocks and building roads. They were compensated with food, shelter and 20 cents a day. -
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Cooperative commonwealth Federation founded in Calgary. It was formed by farmers and labour groups who wanted social and economic reforms to the suffering caused by the Great Depression. Their first leader was J.S. Woodsworth. -
Scotch Tape
The company 3M created Scotch Tape for the first time. -
Prohibition
Prohibition ends in the U.S. -
Bank of Canada
Bennett hoped to establish some financial stability by creating the Bank of Canada to regulate currency and credit, provide financial services to private banks, and act as a financial adviser to the government. -
New Deal
Bennett introduced radical reforms. He wanted to establish unemployment and social insurance, set minimum wages, limit the hours of work, guarantee the fair threatment of employees, and control prices so that businesses could not make unfair profits. -
On-to-Ottawa Trek
Thousands of men began to become fed up with the relief camps. They went on strike and boarded freight trains bound for Ottawa to protest. They would reach as fas as Regina, Saskatchewan before they were stopped by the RCMP. -
Ottawa Meeting
The meeting turned into a shouting match, with Bennett attacking the group as radicals and accusing Trek leader Arthur "Slim" Evans of being an extortionist. Evans in turn called the Prime Minister a liar before the delegation was escorted out of the building. The workers were demanding first aid on camps, workmens compensation, and the right to vote in federal elections. -
Return of King
William Lyon Mackenzie King defeats Bennett in another federal election, due in large part to how Bennett dealt with the relief camp workers, who were supported by the people. -
Bass Guitar
The Bass Guitar was invented in Seattle Washington by Paul Tutmarc -
Berlin Olympics
Opening ceremonies of the Berlin Olympics -
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck's classic novel Of Mice and Men published. -
Hindenberg Disaster
The German dirigible airship Hindenburg explodes in the sky above Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. 36 people are killed. The event leads to an investigation of the explosion and the disaster causes major public distrust of the use of hydrogen-inflated airships and seriously damages the reputation of the Zeppelin company. -
Yellow River Flood
The 1938 Yellow River flood pours out from Huayuankou, China, takes an estimated 500,000 lives. This was a flood created by the Nationalist Government in central China during in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces. It has been called the largest act of environmental warfare in history. -
Oz!
The Wizard of Oz is released across the United States and Canada. -
WWII
The beginnin of World War 2 in Europe.
