2. Many people during the Great Depression were thrown out of their homes because they could not pay income tax.
• Provincial governments helped out people who could not pay income tax with a pogey, which was government money given to the people. To receive a pogey people had to meet certain conditions.
• Canadians who were jobless decided to ride the railroads in order to find jobs and hopped off near towns and stayed in these cities for a couple of days trying to find jobs.
3. Some people with economical difficulties before the Depression got a hard hit during the era. People living the country, immigrants, many women, and aboriginal peoples were discriminated and given less pogey.
• Immigrants could not compete for jobs since Canadians …show more content…
• Aboriginal people were only given five dollars of pogey while others were given much more, and aboriginal people were given limited land and resources to work with. Aboriginal people were forced to live off crops, yet their some of their land was taken away without asking.
• Omen did not have many options when it came to work, and jobs that they could get on did not have a good wage. Vancouver provided women with milk, clothing money, etc. to help out women with a low wage.
4. People who were already wealthy thought the Depression was a more luxurious lifestyle than before. If goods and services were cheaper they were keeping more money than spending it. Wealthy people continued on with their lives with little change, and enjoyed the deflation effect.
Intervention by the Canadian government to try to help ease the Depression
1. 20 million dollars were given to all provinces to set up relief camps creating job opportunities, and the prime minster used even more tariffs. Prairie Farm Rehabilitation act was introduced to help build reservoirs in farms, but many farms was already abandoned leaving no reason to build this water
• Provincial governments helped out people who could not pay income tax with a pogey, which was government money given to the people. To receive a pogey people had to meet certain conditions.
• Canadians who were jobless decided to ride the railroads in order to find jobs and hopped off near towns and stayed in these cities for a couple of days trying to find jobs.
3. Some people with economical difficulties before the Depression got a hard hit during the era. People living the country, immigrants, many women, and aboriginal peoples were discriminated and given less pogey.
• Immigrants could not compete for jobs since Canadians …show more content…
• Aboriginal people were only given five dollars of pogey while others were given much more, and aboriginal people were given limited land and resources to work with. Aboriginal people were forced to live off crops, yet their some of their land was taken away without asking.
• Omen did not have many options when it came to work, and jobs that they could get on did not have a good wage. Vancouver provided women with milk, clothing money, etc. to help out women with a low wage.
4. People who were already wealthy thought the Depression was a more luxurious lifestyle than before. If goods and services were cheaper they were keeping more money than spending it. Wealthy people continued on with their lives with little change, and enjoyed the deflation effect.
Intervention by the Canadian government to try to help ease the Depression
1. 20 million dollars were given to all provinces to set up relief camps creating job opportunities, and the prime minster used even more tariffs. Prairie Farm Rehabilitation act was introduced to help build reservoirs in farms, but many farms was already abandoned leaving no reason to build this water