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Montreal Gazette report finds that, after bad start, 1933 has brought industrial expansion and "a general revival of confidence" [1]

"With a cheery, optimistic feeling prevailing," grain markets in Winnipeg, Chicago and Liverpool raise price of wheat [2]

In what "has been a very bad year," federal budget raises taxes and creates support fund for agricultural exporters [3]

"Heavy obligations" from resource and production investment call for debt conversion, budget balancing and international agreement[4]

Most first ministers back re-employment through shortening of everyone's work day (but unemployment insurance scheme doubtful) [5]

Hitler sworn in as German chancellor, but "surrounded with conservatives" in cabinet [6]

With Nazi plurality, German parliament will allow Hitler to suspend its powers and constitution temporarily [7]

Appeals to Jewish community and Christians to relieve oppression of German Jews [8]

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation rejects capitalism and "its inherent injustice and inhumanity" in Regina Manifesto [9]

Marxist delegate to CCF's Regina convention calls it "middle class" and "reformist" [10]

Rejected in Saskatchewan by-election, Farmer-Labor (CCF) candidates and campaign managers receive advice from their president [11]

Spinning wheel and Bennett buggy: how Prairie farmers are coping in Great Depression [12]

Poor woman asks Prime Minister Bennett to send underwear for her husband (and request is fulfilled) [13]

Memorial plaque unveiled at University of Saskatchewan for 46th Battalion [14]

Mackenzie King yields to temptation, being "disobedient to the heavenly vision as I have held it in my heart" [15]

Flyer for opening of Harlem-style nightclub in Montreal (note: blackface depicted) [16]

References
  1. Canadian Press, "Many Evidences Of Improvement," The Charlottetown Guardian (January 4, 1934), pg. 1. Accessed 5 June 2020 https://islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/object/guardian%3A19340104
  2. "Wheat Closes More Than Two Cents Higher," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 64 (March 16, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 4, 2020 https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1797954
  3. Charles Bishop, "Income Levy Raised, Tax Put on Sugar To Increase Revenue," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 69 (March 22, 1933), pgs. 1,4. Accessed June 4, 2020 https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1798097
  4. "Reports of the Committee; Sixth Report; General," [House] Select Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce (1933), pg. 208. Accessed 23 October 2020 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.com_HOC_1704_2_1/176?r=0&s=1
  5. "To Reduce Working Day?; Indications Point to Agreement on Scheme at Parley in Ottawa (Special to The Star-Phoenix)," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 153 (January 19, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 3, 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19330119&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
  6. Associated Press, "Hitler Wins Power; Europe Stirred," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vol. LX, No. 162 (January 30, 1933), pg. 1. Accessed June 3, 2020 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SCE0ypLQHGcC&dat=19330130&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
  7. Associated Press, "Republic of Germany Is on Its Last Legs; Reichstag Expected to Create Four Years' Dictatorship For Hitler," The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, Vol. XLIII, No. 69 (March 22, 1933), pgs. 1. Accessed June 4, 2020 https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1798097
  8. Maurice N. Eisendrath, "Can the New Year Be Happy" and "Where Are the Christian Champions of the Jew?," Canadian Jewish Review, Vol. XV, No. 49 (September 22, 1933), pg. 3. Accessed 10 December 2019 https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/mcc-cjr-19586/page-3
  9. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, "The Regina Manifesto" (July 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020 http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/CCF/ReginaManifesto.htm
  10. W. (William) Moriarty, "The Regina Convention of the C.C.F.," Workers' Age (September 15, 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020 http://www.socialisthistory.ca/Docs/CCF-NDP/MoriartyOnCCF.htm
  11. Letter of G.H. Williams (Saskatoon, October 28, 1933). Accessed June 3, 2020 http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/election/en/view_image.php?image=66
  12. "1933 Conditions in the Canadian West During the Depression" (no source). Accessed June 3, 2020 http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/documents/frontier/depressionwest.html
  13. Letter of Mrs. Thomas Hodgins (Perdue, Sask., September 28, 1933; with replies). Accessed June 3, 2020 http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/4/h4-2226.1-e.html
  14. "Plaque Unveiled To Members Of 46th Battalion," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (November 13, 1933), pg. 5. Accessed June 3, 2020 http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/war/memorials.html
  15. Entries of January 14 and 15, Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King; 1933, pgs. 17-18. Accessed June 3, 2020 http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/prime-ministers/william-lyon-mackenzie-king/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=13983&
  16. "Connies Inn (formerly The Frolics)" Accessed June 3, 2020 http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/500ans/portail_archives_en/rep_chapitre10/chap10_theme2_doc25_page1.html
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