Richter scale timeline

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Richter scale timeline

• FARMERS

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timeline

• 1917- Conscription crisis
• 1918- Soldiers of the Soil
• 1919- Farmers as Returning Veterans
• 1929- Great Stock Market Crash
• 1930s- Drought

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Conscription crisis

• Ethan Willert

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Conscription crisis

• - Canada was in desperate needs after The Battle
  of Somme. (few volunteers)
• - Recruiting in Quebec failed
• - Conscription was made across the country
  because Prime Minister found it necessary.
• - Conscription was made to force citizens into
  war if desperately needed.
• - Farmers opposed this measure.
• - Farmers sought agricultural exemptions from
  compulsory service until the end of the war.
• -Sales went down
• -Issued exemption certificates
• - 6.7 percent of eligible Saskatchewan conscripts
  defaulted.
• -9.3 percent in Ontario.
• - 40.8 percent in Quebec.
• -and 19.4 percent in Canada as a whole

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Primary source

• Here we see a Canadian farmer signing an
  exemption certificate.
• Primary source http//wdm.ca/skteacherguide/WDMRe
  search/ImpactofWWI.pdf

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ranking

• The ranking I give this is -2. Some farmers
  sought attention when staying in Canada when the
  war took place. Also, Canadian farmers lost sales
  when almost all soldiers went to Europe for WWI.

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sources
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Soldiers of the soil

• Eric Davison

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Soldiers of the soil

• Heavy establishment in the Canadian Expeditionary
  Forces during World War One, there was a shortage
  of labours for farm work, so the Soldiers of the
  Soil or S.O.S. were founded on October 14th 1918.
  The program actively sought out volunteer male
  youth work on Canadian farms to assist farmers in
  achieving greater wartime production of
  foodstuffs. These boys were paid from 15.00 to
  40.00 per month depending on the work that was
  performed.

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PRIMARY SORCES

• This is a photo of one if the boys working on the
  farms as a child
• http//www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/17/soldieroft
  hesoil.shtml

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ranking

• 4 because no one was forced into doing the work.
  
• It was positive because it was helping with
  farming food for the country and sending food to
  the soldiers over seas

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sources

• http//www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/17/soldieroft
  hesoil.shtml
• http//www.agcanada.com/manitobacooperator/2012/11
  /15/soldiers-of-the-soil-E280A8helped-feed-the-
  front/

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Returning Veterans

• Merry Ly

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Returning Veterans

• Who Soldiers who returned from the war who were
  farmers. The farmers were returning veterans.
  They left World War One when finished and came
  back to their homes and farms. When farmers were
  at the war the wife most likely had do the
  farming for them. A lot of people thought it was
  a burden during and after the war. What They
  came back to their families, home, farm, and
  their farming job after World War One was over.
  They felt like they needed to take a huge break
  when the war was over but couldnt because of
  their job position of being a farmer. A lot of
  the returning veterans that were farmers found it
  hard to return to normal life as the war was
  scaring. A lot suffered from shell shock. A lot
  of people had great fear and some troubles after
  the war.
• When It was in year 1919 when the war was
  finally over and the soldiers that were farmers
  got to go back to their homes.

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Returning veterans 2

• Where The soldiers who were farmers returned to
  their homes and farms after World War One. Once
  they have came home from World War One the
  soldiers who were farmers had to immediately
  proceed to work on their farms as farmers to make
  money and to have a sustainable life. Why The
  main idea for the farmers who were returning
  veterans was that they should return to their
  civilian responsibilities which was to return
  life as farmers farming. How Once returned from
  World War One the farmers who were returning
  veterans needed to push themselves to become
  farmers farming again and made sure their steady
  with their well being. In year 1919 returned
  World War One veterans who wished to farm with
  loans to purchase land, stock and equipment was
  provided a
• Soldiers Settlement Act. All though a lot of
  people had to close up their farms due to heavy
  debts and or poor farming conditions.

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Primary source

• "Terrible restlessness which possess us like an
  evil spirit the indefinite expression of a vague
  discontent the restlessness of dying men, little
  children and old soldiers.
• March 1919, veteran George Pearson wrote this
  quote for Maclean's Magazine of what returning
  soldiers experienced.
• This quote is important to farmers that were
  returning veterans because they had troubles
  during and after World War One and had so many
  distraught feelings and they had lived in poor
  conditions from World War One.

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ranking

• They need sufficiency in Canada after World War
  One.
• I rank this a 4 because all Canadians wanted
  Canada to be a good country even after coming
  back from the war even though they were living in
  though conditions and it was attempted to be
  fixed.
• They needed to find good ways to cope with their
  lives after World War One and Canada wasnt in
  good shape. (Wasnt in good shape of economy or
  lives.)
• I rank this a 5 because Canada was trying to
  battle the hardships after World War One was
  over. The hardships of the returning soldiers who
  were farmers had a rough time with their health
  and or well being so it affected Canada by not
  having much food as farmers were hurt.
• They had to plan what to do the rest of their
  lives after World War One which was to return as
  farmers.
• I rank this a 3 because some of the returning
  farmers already have a farm and could just go
  right back to business on the farm as their jobs
  but they are still attempting to defeat
  emotional, and health conditions, heavy debts,
  poor farming conditions, and even closed farms
  that might be interfering with farming for
  Canada. This issue interrupted farmers farming in
  Canada and this made Canada have less food.

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sources

• Colyer, Jill et al. Creating Canada A History
  1914-Present. Toronto McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2010.
  Print.
• Wright, Glenn T. Veterans Land Act. The
  Canadian Encyclopedia. Web. 23 April 2013.

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The Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Erin Hamilton

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description

• October 4 1929, both Bay and Wall Street were hit
  with a wave of selling, the Toronto stock
  exchange recorded approximately 200 million in
  loses for the day. By the 23rd, the tension in
  the markets was reaching a breaking point, and
  many investors were confused and anxious about
  the future of the market. On October 24 1929, the
  day that came to be known as Black Thursday,
  the brokers panicked and began to dump sell
  orders into the market in order to protect
  themselves. The market slide began to accelerate.
  Soon stock prices began to collapse completely.
  At about 1100 am the selling reached a peak for
  about 6 min and the market broke down entirely.
  Crowds gathered outside the stock exchanges in
  Toronto, New York, Chicago, Winnipeg, and
  Montreal. All order broke down, police were
  called in and the markets kept falling. Ticker
  Tapes fell far behind and exchanges lost touch
  with each other due to the shear volume of
  activity. The bankers, brokers, and politicians
  claimed that it was a glitch and the economy was
  still sound, the Dow was down 11? at the end of
  the day. On Monday October 28 1929, Black Monday,
  more investors left the market and the slide
  continued, leaving the Dow with a 13? loss in
  value at the end of the day. The disaster of the
  stock market crash continued on to Tuesday
  October 29 1929, Black Tuesday, where the Dow
  lost an additional 12? of its value. The volume
  of the stocks traded on this day set a record
  that was not broken for nearly 40 years. The
  market had lost over 30 billion in two days,
  with 14 billion lost on Black Tuesday alone.

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Primary source

• This shows how big the impact of the stock
  market crash was and how many people were
  affected, the effects of the crash were felt
  world wide and sent both the Canadian and
  American economies into downward spirals
  essentially triggering the Great Depression.
• http//business.financialpost.com/2011/10/24/the-g
  reat-crash-of-1929-some-key-dates/

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ranking

• The ranking the I give this event is a -4. The
  stock market crash meant that people lost their
  jobs and had little to no money, wheat prices
  were down and combined with the drought the
  farmers would be barely able to support
  themselves and their families. Many of them would
  have lost money from making investments that were
  worthless, and the banks seized many homes,
  farms, and other properties. There were work
  camps set up by the government which they might
  have travelled to, sending money back to their
  family, but it would not have been enough. Many
  probably relied on government relief which was
  rather scant, being just enough for a family to
  scrape by.

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sources

• Colyer, Cecillon et al. Creating CanadaA History
  1914 to the Present. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2010.
  Print.
• Mcleod, Susanna. Black Tuesday, Collapse of
  Canadas Stock Market." Suite 101. N.p. n.d.Web.
  Thursday April 25 2013.
• Hillmer, Norman. The Great Crash. The Canadian
  Encyclopedia. N.p. n.d. Web. Thursday April 25
  2013.

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1930s drought

• Maggie Huang

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description

• The previous stock market crash had sent the
  prairies into poverty and unemployment, the rate
  was constantly under 10 and then the drought of
  the 1930s came. Wheat sold for less than the
  seeds and the drought with its dust lasted over
  10 years killing the rich prairie soil. Men were
  forced to move to cities and search for new jobs
  because they did not have the income to afford
  the equipment and land. Dust storms came during
  spring and summer, when farmers were planting
  crops. The dust storms would take out the seeds
  the farmers planted and render the days work
  useless. The farmers also had an infestation of
  grasshoppers and weeds. Chickens and turkeys ate
  the grasshoppers giving the meat and eggs a foul
  taste and it was impossible to control the
  infestation. The livestock starved because there
  was nothing to feed them, and the prices went up
  from 3.5 cents to 4 cents per animal. Farm
  incomes dropped 363 million in 1928 to minus 10.7
  million in 1931 and agricultural exports fell
  from 783 million in 1928 to 253 million in 1932.
  Farmers had to improvise with many new methods
  like planting new crops like oats, rye, flax,
  peas and alfalfa that adapted to dry weather

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Primary source

• This primary source is from July 25, 1931, 2
  years after the drought started. It was taken
  along a fence between Cadillac and Kincaid. The
  soil condition has worsened since the drought
  started. This source is from the Library and
  Archives Canada.
• This is a picture from the 1930s drought. It
  shows the damaged soil that is a result from the
  drought. It is an example of the drought many
  Canadian farmers living in the prairies
  experienced during that decade.
• This shows a change that made life for Canadian
  prairie farmers a lot harder. These conditions
  made it hard for them to grow wheat and killed
  the previously rich prairie soil. Future crops
  would also be affected by this drought. The
  farmers planted different crops that were more
  accustomed to dry land.
• This picture shows the hardships that the 1930s
  drought brought just two years in. Already soil
  is eroding away and during July, there are no
  crops in the fields. Some farmers even moved away
  due to these conditions.

http//www.grainscanada.gc.ca/cgc-ccg/history-hist
oire/timeline-historique/1931-1940-eng.htm
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ranking

• -3
• Id rank this event a -3.5. It affected prairie
  farmers negatively during that time, and
  afterwards. The drought affected ¼ of Canadas
  farmable land. The land eroded and farming became
  hard due to erosion. Many farms were abandoned or
  the farmers moved elsewhere. Due to this drought,
  we could be having shortages of large supplies of
  surface water and groundwater in future years,
  and in 10-30 years from now, we will have stress
  on surface water resources. However, the drought
  wasnt 100 negative, due to the drought, PFRA
  (Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration) was
  created to help prairie farmers deal with
  drought, provide financial support to them and
  technical assistance in building water storage.
  Infertile land was also bought off by PRFA PFRA
  also provided trees to farmers with no charge.
  Due to this drought, Irrigation projects also
  started up. So even though the drought was bad
  for land and farmers, the farmers did get a small
  benefit in the end and widened the variety of
  stuff they planted. PRFA Also started.

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sources

• 1930s Drought. CBC News. N.p. August 6, 2004.
  Web. April 25, 2013.
• Drought. The Canadian Encyclopedia. N.p. 2010.
  Web. April 25, 2013.
• 1931-1940. Canadian Grain Commission. N.p.
  2012. Web. April 25, 2013