Authors and Sources


Authors

The Impact of the Great Depression on People (Volume III, Plate 41, Concise Plate 41)
Managing the Relief Burden (Volume III, Plate 42, Concise Plate n.a.)
MURDO MACPHERSON Historical Atlas of Canada, Toronto
DERYCK W. HOLDSWORTH Geography, Pennsylvania State University

Sources

Unemployment Relief Work Camps, 1932-1936 (Map)

Thanks to Douglas Cruikshank for help with sources on relief camps.
  • Canada. Department of the Interior. National Parks Branch. Annual Report. 1932-6
  • Labour Gazette. Ottawa, Mar 1933. P 300
  • NAC. McNaughton Papers. MG 30 E 133, Vol 98. Final Report on the Unemployment Relief Scheme for the Care of Single Homeless Men, Administered by the Department of National Defence, 1932-1936. App 4-26

    • Trek in Search of Work, 1928-1939 (Map)

  • Johnstone, Bill. 'Coal Dust in My Blood': The Autobiography of a Coal Miner. British Columbia Provincial Museum, Heritage Record No. 9. Victoria, 1980
  • Knight, Rolf. A Very Ordinary Life. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1974 Thibault, Nelson. Interview conducted by Deryck W. Holdsworth. Winnipeg, 10 Apr 1985

    • Relief Recipients by Province, 1930-1940 (Map)
    Relief Recipients by Selected Urban Areas, 1935 (Graph)

  • The yearly average number on relief shown on all provincial graphs was calculated from the monthly totals given in the Department of Labour's annual reports. Cape Breton cities include Sydney, Glace Bay, Sydney Mines, and North Sydney.
  • Canada. Department of Labour. Annual Reports of the Dominion Commissioner of Unemployment Relief. 1930-41 Goldenberg, H. Carl. Municipal Finance in Canada.
  • A Study Prepared for the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations. Ottawa, 1939. P 70 Provincial Archives of Newfoundland. Records of the Department of Public Health and Welfare, Newfoundland Commission of Government
  • Newfoundland. Census of Newfoundland and Labrador. 1935

    • Riding the Rods, 1931 (Illustration)

  • Glenbow Archives. Calgary, Alberta. NC6-12955(b)

    • Further Readings

  • Cassidy, Harry Morris. Unemployment and Relief in Ontario, 1929-1932. Toronto: Dent, 1932
  • Drystek, Henry F. 'The Simplest and Cheapest Mode of Dealing With Them: Deportation from Canada before World War 11.' Histoire sociale/Social History 15, no. 30 (Nov 1982): 407-41
  • Richter, Lothar, ed. Canada's Unemployment Problem. Toronto: Macmillan, 1939
  • Sautter, Udo. 'Measuring Unemployment in Canada: Federal Efforts Before World War 11.' Histoire sociale/Social History 15, no. 30 (Nov 1982): 475-87
  • Struthers, James. No Fault of Their Own: Unemployment and the Canadian Welfare State, 1914-1941. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983
  • Riendeau, Roger E. 'A Clash of Interests: Dependency and the Municipal Problem in the Great Depression.' Journal of Canadian Studies 14 , no. 1 (1979): 50-8
  • Shultz, Patricia V. The East York Workers Association: A Response to the Great Depression. Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1975
  • Struthers, James. No Fault of Their Own: Unemployment and the Canadian Welfare State, 1914-1941. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983