Chapter 7 - Hard Times and War


Unemployed men climbing aboard the protest train at Kamloops in 1935, on their way to Ottawa to meet the prime minister. National Archives C-029399

 

Hard times came to British Columbia during the 1930s. The Great Depression brought unemployment, poverty and business collapse. It was not until the outbreak of the Second World War that the...

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