1. The “Dustbowl” How did the Dust Bowl affect Canadian Prairie Farmers?

2. “Dust Bowl Dance” – Mumford and Sons What can you speculate about the Dust Bowl based on the song? A Mother in California – The Dust Bowl also affected the prairies of the United States

3. Black Tuesday Drought Dust Bowl Grasshoppers How did the Dust Bowl affect Canadian Prairie Farmers? Contributing Factors of Prairie Disparity

4. How did the Dust Bowl affect Canadian Prairie Farmers? Drought: there was a massive drought that dried up the soil

5. Dust Bowl: Strong winds caused the dried soil to become giant dust clouds and sandstorms How did the Dust Bowl affect Canadian Prairie Farmers?

6. Grasshoppers: billions of grasshoppers ate what little crops grew How did the Dust Bowl affect Canadian Prairie Farmers? Reporter John Gray described the scene in Saskatchewan: "Anybody who lived in Regina that summer and could not get over being squeamish about walking on wall-to-wall grasshoppers stayed indoors... Clouds of the insects obscured the sun."

7. The farmers went bankrupt Some were kicked off their land while others moved to the cities in search of work… But the cities had little work to offer Regional Disparity – Canadian Prairies Suffer How did the Dust Bowl affect Canadian Prairie Farmers?

8. Métis had worked as seasonal farmers and were now unemployed Métis = an official aboriginal group in Canada who are mixed- heritage aboriginal and European Metis family in the Auvergne district, ca 1908