Soup Kitchens Great Depression Canada. Almost every city and town had a soup kitchen. “stock speculators shaken in wild day of panic,” shouted the front page of the next day’s toronto globe.
Government did not make getting relief easy → people had to wait in line for hours and then publicly declare their financial failure; It began to take shape on 24 october 1929, black thursday. It was called black tuesday:
Canada is facing a crisis comparable to the great depression.
Millions of canadians were left unemployed, hungry and often homeless.the decade became known as the dirty thirties due to a crippling droughtin the prairies, as well as canada’s dependence on raw material and farm exports. The great depression was a time of great economic crisis during the 1930s. They were usually huge rooms with long wooden tables. Almost every city and town had a soup kitchen.
