The Great Depression of the 1930s During the 1930s, the Canadian nation suffered through the Great Depression. The Depression resulted from the culmination of several components, primarily the collapse of the American stock market. As a result of Canada’s close alliance to the American econo...

ECONOMIC REFORM The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history. It ranked as the worst and longest period of high unemployment and low business activity in modern times. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. Many factors led to the onset and con...

The Great Depression was the worst economic slide in the history of the United States. It left many emotional and physiological scars, “invisible scars” as one writer called it, on the American people. There were many contributing factors to the causes of the Great Depression, which came along...