Until this great work is completed, our dominion is little more than a geographical expression - Sir John A. Macdonald

Travel through the eras of  history and the development of the various nations that make up Canada today.

1929 Crash | Economic Slowdown | Bennett in Power | The Ottawa Conference | Prairie Drought | Relief | The Regina Riots | Alberta & Bible Bill | Statute of Westminster | Woodworth & the CCF | The Union Nationale | Relief Camps | Bennett's Conversion | King's Return | European Unrest | Royal Visit

October of 1929 came as a shock to wall street and to the economy of North America. The relationship between the United States and Canada was never recognized as being so closely related as when both countries quickly sunk into the great depression. Along with this economic apocalypse came a climatic drought which destroyed farmlands, dried up the land and blew away the top soil on many parts of the prairies. These national emergencies were meet by the Bennett government with  exactly the wrong combination of financial actions which compounded the slowdown in the economy. These actions were only recognized as being damaging towards the end of Bennett's term when he finally became a convert to deficit spending.. Many new political parties arose from this desperate time and across the oceans in Japan and Germany, new totalitarian dangers reared their ugly heads with hardly a protest from the great democracies.