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Title | Camp #9 : An Historical and Archaeological Investigation of a Depression Era Relief Camp in Prince Albert National Park |
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Date | 2002 |
Physical extent | 1 thesis ; 178 pages |
Scope and content | In 1929 the New York Stock Exchange crashed, ushering in a decade that would come to be known as the Great Depression. Although the Depression was a global phenomenon its impact was influenced by a variety of local economic and environmental conditions. On the prairies, a nearly decade long drought occurred at the same time forcing people from farms and driving thousands of people into unemployment. By the summer of 1932 conditions deteriorated to the point where the Conservative Government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Richard B. Bennett, enacted a federally supported relief program. Relief camps, which provided room, board and a meagre allowance in exchange for work, opened under the administration of both the Department of National Defence and, within the western National Parks and Point Pelee, Parks Canada. Over the course of the following three years an estimated 200,000 men worked in these camps. Although a dramatic event in Canadian history scant literature is available, either historically or archaeologically, on relief camps. This thesis is an attempt to address the lack of data, particularly archaeological, on this topic through an examination of a relief camp, Camp #9 (153N) in Prince Albert National Park. |
Repository | University of Saskatchewan Library Special Collections |
Fonds/collection | University of Saskatchewan Library Theses and Dissertations | Credits | St. Denis, Michael (author) |
Retrieval information | etd-11132008-121956 |
External URL | http://library2.usask.ca/theses/submitted/etd-11132008-121956/unrestricted/St.Denis_Michael_2002.pdf |
Theme(s) |
Mandatory Labour |
Database ID | 38153 |