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Ten Lost Years 1929 - 1939 Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression
Broadfoot, Barry Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Toronto, Canada Year Published: 1973 Pages: 389pp ISBN: 0385-04409-7 Dewey: 971.0623 Resource Type: Book
An oral history of the Great Depression in Canada.
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Preface Summary of Events 1. What Was It Like? 2. Three Overall Views 3. You'd Try Your Hand at Anything 4. On the Farm - Those in the Bible Never Had it Worse 5. Moving with the Whistle
Off the Farm 6. Four Walls and a Roof 7. On Relief 8. Starvation? Depends On What You Had Before 9. Government Relief Camps - They Treated Us Like Dirt 10. The Bush Was Still There 11. Employers Could Pick and Choose 12. Hoboes - Coming From Nowhere, Going Nowhere 13. Pride - A Commodity in Generous Supply 14. Prejudice - It Takes a Long Time for Old Habits to Die 15. Dishonesty? Just a Word for Survival 16. You Go a Little Crazy 17. Bartering Pork Chops for Babies 18. You Made a Dollar Any Way You Could 19. You'd Grab Any Job, Then Hang On 20. Things Were Just Fine, If You Had Any Money 21. Home-Made Entertainment 22. The Fantasy World 23. Kids 24. "You'll Be a Better Woman for it" 25. The Big World Outside 26. They Didn't Consider Indians People 27. It Gave Politicians More to Louse Up 28. So Many Problems and So Many Bureaucrats 29. Bankers and Business Walked Hand in Hand 30. Rough Justice 31. The Rosy Pictures of the Timid Press 32. Law and Order 33. Was a Revolution Possible? 34. 1939 - Lining Up to Die 35. Lasting Effects Conclusion
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