Maptour Page 2
Maptour: The Impact of the Great Depression, 1928-1940
Work Camps


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Map: Unemployment Relief Work Camps, 1932-1936

Try This:

  • Open the interactive map "Unemployment Relief Work Camps, 1932-1936."

Notice ...

  • Work projects varied with region: airfields in northern Ontario, roads in southern BC, military installations in the St Lawrence valley.
  • Large parts of the Prairie Provinces ecumene appears to have been beyond the range of Work Camps, unlike any other part of Canada.

Try This:

  • Under LAYER CONTROLS, turn off the checkbox for "Work Camps."

Notice ...

  • Work camps were established only within the railway network area.
  • Railways provided the only domestic, overland link between eastern and western Canada in the 1930s.

Consider!

  • The 1930s was the age of bush pilots and small propeller planes with flying range of no more than a few hundred kilometres.
  • Only the national government had the money to undertake public projects beyond the primary settled area.