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Workers (Great Depression) Continuity or Change Continued
but if the virus lasted longer what could have happened. -
Workers (Great Depression)
The Great Depression started in the early '30s when the wall street stock market crashed. Many workers lost their jobs as supply was unneeded. with less work available in their towns and cities men and boys left their families to go find work or go to an unemployment relief camp. As the value for items dropped people with residences and income became at a higher standard of living. Farmers took a major hit as the dust bowl began and continued for ten more years. -
Workers (Great Depression) Continuity or Change
The great depression was like nothing else, with the stock market crash and increasingly less employment the economy took a hard hit and so did people living in Canada who had lost their jobs or loved ones. Therefore I would put this at change, however, the recent pandemic had lots of people losing their jobs and the economy took a small hit but was close to taking a larger hit as people lost their jobs to the pandemic. I can see that the recent pandemics were very minor compared to the pandemic -
Farmers (Great Depression)
In 1931 drought hit the prairies this drought lasted 10 years. The lack of rain and high temperatures caused the soil to dry up, the dried-up fields caused a high number of grasshoppers to come to the fields. over farming also lead to overused soil and dirt making it hard to farm and attracted grasshoppers. This event gained the name 'the dust bowl'. Between 1931 and 1941 250 000 farmers left their farms because of the conditions. -
Farmers (Great Depression) Continuity or change.
This event was very different from past years of farming because of the lack of farmers and lack of the ability to farm. Unlike other years there were heaps of grasshoppers and overused and dried up soil. -
Farmers (WWII)
Farming in Canada was starting to pick up again after the dust bowl of the great depression. there was extra production happening to meet the standards of the war, in particular, what was being produced. As the men and farmers started going to war females started working on the farms and taking over the jobs for the men. Canada sent food to Britain during the war to help with the food supply. -
Farmers (WWII) Continuity or Change
Farming during world war two was different for many reasons starting with the fact that the farmers were actually able to farm for the first time since 1931. Women did take over for men while they went to war just like in world war one. -
Workers (WWII)
Jobs increased greatly as the war began which helped take care of the great depression. During WWII when men went to war the women started to take care of their jobs. These women and some men built and supplied things for the war, which opened up more job spots while they also did the leftover jobs from the great depression. -
Workers (WWII) Continuity or Change
The workforce did not see a unique increase like this before. The reason I call this a unique increase is that the people who had lived through the great depression would think that it is just a normal amount of jobs but, people who had only ever known the number of jobs in the great depression would think there are an abnormal amount. I would consider the number of jobs to change from the great depression, however, -
Workers (WWII) Continuity or Change Continued
the women working would be continuity from WWI when women took over the men going to war back in WWI. -
Minorities (Italian Canadians)
When Italy joined the war in 1940 many prominent Italiens were placed in internment. Three internment camps held around 600 Italian men who were suspected of sympathizing with fascism. These men stayed in the camps for around five years. somewhat near 31000 Italians were registered as enemy aliens and were forced to go to RCMP stations once a month. -
Minorities (Italian Canadians) Continuity or Change
I think that the minorities are continuity because of how many times Canada has made the same mistakes in the past. including Japanese Canadians, German Cadians and indigenous peoples. All of these groups of people were all treated in very negative ways such as being named "Enemy Aliens". Even in WWI Canada made the same mistakes of mistreating certain people. I feel like Canada keeps repeating this same mistake of mistreating people as recently represented by the BLM movement. -
Minorities (Japanese Canadians)
In 1942 Canada started detaining Japanese Canadians via the war measures act. Canada detained more than 90% of Japanese Canadians. The detained Japanese Canadians were interned till the end of WWII. After they were detained the government would sell their homes and businesses to help pay for their detainment. later in 1988 Prime minister Brian Mulroney sent out an apology to the Japanese Canadians for how Canada had treated them during the war. -
Minorities (Japanese Canadians) Continuity or Change
I think that the mistreatment of the Japanese Canadians was continuity because of how Canada had treated other minorities in the past. For example, the Japanese Canadians were not able to vote till 1948 just like how Indigenous peoples weren't allowed to vote until 1962. -
Bibliography 3
Works Cited “Japanese Canadian Internment: Prisoners in Their Own Country.” Japanese Canadian Internment: Prisoners in Their Own Country | The Canadian Encyclopedia, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/japanese-internment-banished-and-beyond-tears-feature#:~:text=Beginning%20in%20early%201942%2C%20the,of%20the%20Second%20World%20War.
Sutori, www.sutori.com/story/western-canadians-during-the-great-depression--xGruX46aq7KgekUPyA1CZMKG. -
Bibliography
Works Cited Canada, Veterans Affairs. “Canada's Industries Gear up for War.” Historical Sheet - Second World War - History - Veterans Affairs Canada, 14 Feb. 2019, www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/historical-sheets/industry.
“The Great Depression in Canada.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-depression#:~:text=Millions%20of%20Canadians%20were%20left,and%20savings%20transformed%20the%20country. -
Bibliography 2
Works Cited “Internment in Canada.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/internment.
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