Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependent, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation. The most searing decade in Canada's history began with the stock market crash of 1929 and ended with the Second World War. Here, Pierre Berton reconstructs its engrossing events.

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