HTST 337 Final: Full Notes for HTSTS 337 (Covers all Lectures)
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Mckenzie asked byng to dissolve the house, but byng refuses because meighen has so many more seats than king. Byng gives in and grants meighen dissolution of the house and has an election. King campaigns on canadian autonomy (complaining that byng didn"t grant him dissolution the first time) Alcohol gets rid of prohibition and introduces government regulated alcohol policies. No longer moral uplift, rather they lead to using social sciences and etc. Western and central canada is economically booming, but the. Maritimes are not, and demographically, its population becomes smaller and smaller, and starts a maritimes rights movement. The roots of the great depression rested in the 1920s and in the. New investments in all industries after the great war. Before 1929 things started to go down. Prices begin to fall and this creates a snowball effect and everything else starts to fall. Wheat prices start to drop even more than other commodities.
