Urban Relief in Saskatchewan During the Years of Depression, 1930-1939
Date
1969-01
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The subject of the thesis is "Urban Relief in
Saskatchewan During the Years of Depression, 1930-39."
It is composed of five main chapters, bounded by an
Introduction and a Conclusion.
The Introduction attempts to justify the
delimitation of subject matter to urban relief and to
define the various types of relief and classes of relief
recipient to be found in an urban municipality of the
Province in the 1930s.
The first two chapters set the background to
the three local studies which form the core of the thesis.
Chapter one describes the response of the Federal Government
to the problems of unemployment and relief, and discusses
its failure to implement national policies to cope
with the situation. The consequences of this lack of
central direction for Saskatchewan are considered in some
detail. The second chapter analyses the position of the
Provincial Government during the depression decade from
three major perspectives; political, financial and
administrative.
The third, fourth and fifth chapters consist of
a description and analysis of the impact of the depression
and the federal and provincial policies pursued as they
affected the cities of Prince Albert and Saskatoon and
the town of Shaunavon. These places were selected for
special study because they are geographically representative.
Shaunavon is situated in the south-western corner of the
Province, approximately thirty miles from the border with
the United States and one hundred and thirty miles from
the Albertan border. Saskatoon is situated in the central
part of the settled area of the Province and Prince Albert
is in the northern part of the settled area, approximately
one hundred miles north of Saskatoon.
Each local study consists of a consideration of
the relief policies adopted and the administrative framework
in which they operated. The financial and demographic
consequences of the depression for each urban centre are
described and the problems which were encountered are
analysed.
The Conclusion seeks to assess the relative
gravity of the impact of the depression in the three
centres studied, and to relate the degree of suffering
to political events in the individual municipality and
the Province ,
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Master of Arts (M.A.)
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History
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History