The Great Depression in Canada

The through-line

Canada's depression looked much like America's — so why was the political response so different?

Content overview

The unit runs on one presentation in three parts and one comparison: what caused the collapse in a country whose economy was built on exports, what the "ten lost years" did to the Prairies and the cities, and why Canadians answered with Bennett's relief camps and a crop of new parties — the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Social Credit — rather than a New Deal. It closes with students building an infographic comparing the two countries' responses and their short- and long-term effects.

How to use the lesson pages

• Seven lessons, matching the source's own Days 1–7. The numbering needed no adjustment here — unlike Topic 12 Part 1, where the labels had to be rebuilt.
• Below the page's red "STOP" rule sits an earlier set of Day 2, 3 and 4 plans the teacher marked archival. None of it is reproduced on these pages. If an old activity is missing from a lesson and you remember teaching it, that block on the Weebly page is where to look.
• The whole unit runs on one presentation, the teacher's "06 GD Canada", opened at different points: Part 1 from the start, Part II from slide 19 (slides 20–42, or 45–63 on B day and 55–63 on A day), and Part III from slide 41. Each section has its own guided notes and recorded lecture. The lesson pages keep every slide anchor so the deck opens where it should.
• Each lesson offers a 90-minute block and a short period, matching the course's A/B block schedule. Only the block is timed.
• No timings anywhere in this source. Every minute on every page is an estimate, and each page says so.
• One objective and one set of five guiding questions, repeated word for word on all seven days. They frame the unit, not the individual lesson — so each page's blurb, not its objective, is what tells the days apart. The wording of the guiding questions drifts slightly between days and each page keeps its own day's version, apostrophes and typos included.
• Dates are partial and relative. Day 2's are blank on the page — "(B=11/_, A=11/_)". The Canada test is announced only as "Wednesday/Thursday", and the final day's test discussion says "Not Sure long 20-30 MC Questions". Nothing has been filled in. Day 1 also carries a warning that the *previous* unit's US test falls on the class right after it.
• One resource could not be published. "The Regina Manifesto vs. the Social Credit League of Alberta 10 Plank Platform", used on Lessons 4 and 5, is linked on the page to a personal Gmail inbox URL that cannot work for anyone but the teacher. Those lessons name the resource and say the link is unusable rather than publishing an inbox address. It needs a real home before either lesson can be taught from these pages.
• The IB Internal Assessment runs alongside the history from Lesson 4 on — topic research, five big ideas, a prompt submission, and a "Part 1 before break" deadline the page never dates. Those threads are kept on the pages as the source states them.
• Lesson 7 is thin by nature: a catch-up and test-review day with two links. Lesson 6 is the source's own "Last Day w/ Canada".