Soup Kitchens During The Great Depression In Canada

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Soup kitchens during the great depression in canada. One of the important events during his presidency was the emergence of Soup Kitchens during the Great Depression. Homemakers became proficient in making cakes without butter and eggs and pie crusts from crackers. After a meal most people returned to the alleyways parks or flop-houses for the night National Archives of CanadaPA-168131.

During the Great Depression only the United States suffered a greater economic decline than Canada. Soup Kitchens in the Great Depression Herbert Hoover was the 31st American President who served in office from March 4 1929 to March 4 1933. Gangster Al Capones Chicago soup kitchen provided three meals a day during the Great Depression.

In fact preceding the passage of the Social Security Act soup kitchens like the one Al Capone founded provided the only meals that some unemployed Americans had. The Great Depression in the 1930s was a time of hardship but it was also a time of creativity. Soup kitchens opened up in America in the beginning of 1929 when the Great Depression was just beginning.

On Thanksgiving in 1930 Capones soup kitchen. During the Great Depression. Towards the end of the great depression there was a soup kitchen in almost every city.

Few countries were affected as severely as Canada. People might have had to travel into a town or city to get food. Millions of Canadians were left unemployed hungry and often homelessThe decade became known as the Dirty Thirties due to a crippling drought in the Prairies as well as Canadas dependence on raw material and farm exports.

Consortium criticalthe thinking Parade in Toronto during the Great Depression Photograph of the Single Mens Unemployed Association parading on Bathurst Street in Toronto taken during the 1930s. From 1929 to 1933 the Gross National Product in Canada fell by 42 percent. The need for soup kitchens was felt even more keenly when the tailspin in the economy worsened in 1932 and 12 million Americans about 25 percent of the normal labor force were out of work.