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

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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


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