The Dirty Thirties – Effects on Manitobans
The “Dirty 30′s” which to most Canadians represented the times of the economic depression which followed the marker of the stock market crash had more than a major effect on manitobans and prairie people who lived through it. It served as an indelible marker on their lives. On the other side of the fence many of the social programs which Canadians and even Americans to some degree now enjoy came out of those shaping times. Stanley Knowles , the veteran Canadian policymaker and consummate CCF and later NDP politican was forever influenced by the memory of 3 brothers , who shared one pair of pants , and could therefore only go out one at a time . These memories were forever left on the people who lived through the “Great Depression” and the “Dirty Thirties” of the Canadian Prairies.
Farmers across Canada itself were struggling all the time to cope with the suffering and sufferings brought on by this great depression. In Manitoba itself , farming was the backbone of the provincial economy. When farmers suffered the province of Manitoba suffered. Annual per capita income in Manitoba declined from $ 466 in 1929 to $ 240 in 1933. Although Manitoba’s economy was less dependent on wheat and the wheat crop than that of Saskatchewan and Alberta ” the economic support of nearly 40 % of Manitoba’s population virtually collapsed” due to the large drop in grain prices according to the report of Roswell-Sirois Royal Commission on Dominion Provincial Relations which was released much later in 1940 , just as the world was beginning to come out of economic doldrums due to war in Europe. The co-relation was no news to the fine people of Winnipeg and rural Manitoba.
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