How Canadians Lived Through The Depression Years

Both the government and civilians used different types of methods to deal with the Great Depression of Canada, but it was apparent that none of the methods were very effective. To begin with, Prime Minister Bennett raised tariffs hoping to protect and encourage homeland industries and transferred large sums of funds to the provinces as relief. Unfortunately those did little to alleviate the economic crisis. Those were only temporally "treatment", and were not long time solutions. To ease the Depression, the government also gave out relief in forms of vouchers which could be exchanged for basic necessities of life such as food or rent. …