Relief Camps

RELIEF CAMPS were created across Canada during the Depression to relieve the destitution of single unemployed men. The first camps in BC were organized by the provincial government in 1931. They were absorbed by the federal government in 1932 when the Department of National Defence took over responsibility for a national program of relief camps. In return for clearing brush, planting trees, digging sewers, working on road construction and doing other similar jobs, inmates received...

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