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Born in Essex and partly trained by Frank Matcham, Crewe and his contemporaries W.G.R. Sprague and Thomas Verity, were together responsible for the majority – certainly more than 200 – of the theatres and variety palaces of the great building boom which took place in Britain between 1885 and 1915, peaking at the turn of the century. [1]
- Causes of The Great Depression
- Uneven Burden on The Country
- Impact on Population
- Government Aid Efforts
- Changed Political Landscape
- Government Intervention
Economists still debate whether a specific event, such as the 1929 Wall Street stock market crash, sparked the Great Depression. However, there is consensus that the Depression was the result of widespread drops in world commodity prices and sudden declines in economic demand and credit. These factors led to rapid declines in global trade and risin...
Several key factors aggravated the Depression’s effects in Canada. Different regions of the country were impacted to different degrees. The country’s social-welfare structure proved woefully inadequate. And government attempts to address problems through policy proved misguided. A third of Canada’s Gross National Income came from exports. Therefore...
Demographic changes were a revealing index of hardship in Canada. Immigration and birthrates plummeted. Population growth throughout the 1930s reached the lowest point since the 1880s. The number of immigrants accepted into Canada dropped from 169,000 in 1929 to fewer than 12,000 by 1935. It never rose above 17,000 for the remainder of the decade. ...
Canada did not have an adequate system of dispensing welfare to the jobless. Although unemployment was a national problem, the federal government refused, for the most part, to provide work for the jobless. This was equally true under Conservative Prime Minister R.B. Bennett (1930–35) as it was under his Liberal predecessor and successor W.L. Macke...
The Depression changed the way Canadians thought about the economy and the role of the state. The prevailing opinion was that a balanced budget, a sound dollar and changes in the trade tariff would allow the private marketplace to recover. This view was shared by both the Bennett and Kinggovernments and most economists. A variety of political refor...
The national impact of these organizations was minimal. However, the Depression did result in an expansion of state responsibility for the economy and social welfare. In 1934, Bennett’s government passed the Bank of Canada Act. This established the Bank of Canada in 1935. The bank was charged with regulating monetary policy. Also in 1935, the Canad...
The Great Depression has given rise to similar readings of the past and developed its own set of mythologies. In retrospect the 1920s have been painted as relatively prosperous times. In the popular imagination the 1920s have been remembered as the “Roaring” or “Sunny, Funny Twenties.”. For the majority of North Americans, however, the ...
The 1930s Depression is profoundly and deeply associated, in the popular mind, with the prairie Dust Bowl, one of the greatest environmental catastrophes in Canadian history. It was, in fact, something like a ticking time-bomb. The British sent an expedition across the Prairies in the 1850s, led by John Palliser (1817-1887).
- John Douglas Belshaw
- 2016
The Great Crash, it was called, and it was followed by the Great Depression. The wheat glut of 1928 threw the Winnipeg Grain Exchange into a spiral, triggering a depression in Canada's economy. It began to take shape on 24 October 1929, Black Thursday.
Search for: 'Bertie Crewe' in Oxford Reference ». (c. 1860–1937).Essex-born English architect. He became an important and prolific designer, responsible for over 100 theatres and music-halls as well as several early cinemas. His buildings include the New Prince's (later Shaftesbury) Theatre, London (1911), the Hippodrome, Golders Green (1910 ...
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Jul 9, 2021 · The Great Depression took place in Canada and around the world in the 1930s. The term “Depression” is used to describe an economic decline that lasts for a long time. During the worst period of the Depression about 30 percent of Canadians were unemployed. This made life very difficult because Canada had few social programs at the time.
