Talk:Great Depression in Canada

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I dunno... the Depression pretty much lasted until WWII for every nation. There must be something more to distinguish Canada's problems... --Alexwcovington 00:01, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It didn't really, the United States economy had grown past the 1929 level by the mid to late thirties. Germany and the other fascist powers had pulled themselves out as well. In other countries like France the depression didn't really begin until 1931-1932, so lasting to WWII was far less remarkable. - SimonP 00:12, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)

Odd that there is no mention of the impact of the Western Canadian dustbowl, particularly in the hard-hit Palliser's Triangle region.

Is the assertion that Canada was the hardest hit country by the depression really accurate? I know that things were fairly bad here, but I thought that Germany was the worst hit, with the rampant inflation and instability? Can we either get some more information as to why Canada was harder hit or remove this assertion? -Hordeorc 06:10, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Yup. In november of '23, 1US dollar was worth roughly 2 520 000 000 000 German Marks (Fielding, Evans, Haskings-Winner, Mewhinney, Robertson, Sly, Terry, 2001)

Yup.

 :DTalflick 03:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

The statistics show that Canada was harder hit than the US. Germany actually did a little better than the US during the 30's, bottoming out at 68% of peak real GNP, as compared to about 65% in the US. The 20's a different story. Kevinw555 17:04, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

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