1930 John Brownlee’s UFA Wins Third Term in Office
1936 William Aberhart’s Social Credit Topples UFA as Alberta Suffers from Great Depression
1936 Election (Part 2)
1932 Hunger March in Edmonton:
Part 1: Mobilizing the Unemployed
Part 2: Communists, Farmers, and Other Labour groups
Part 3: Police Pursuit and Riot in the Streets
With the onset of the Great Depression, Canada again shifted
immigration policy. Unemployment
had skyrocketed and the general public resisted giving up the
few available jobs to new
migrants. The Railway Agreement, which brought so many migrants to Alberta in the 1920s, was
cancelled and the federal government took measures to seal off the country to refugees fleeing
Nazi Germany.
In 1930 an order-in-council barred immigration entirely except to those who already had immediate
family in Canada or who were economically self-sufficient. This was
followed in 1931 by Order-in-Council P.C. 695, which essentially
stopped all immigration from Europe. Only British subjects and
American migrants with sufficient capital or assured employment, or
those who were the wives and unmarried children of Canadian
residents were permitted entry. As a result, immigration to Canada
in the 1930s plunged to 140,000 from 1,166 000 in the 1920s.
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