![]() ![]() Most notable was the rise of fascist dictatorships in Germany and Italy. ![]() The weakness of national economies had led to political unrest and upheaval and new political movements were born out of the fiscal and social chaos. The Great Depression had been a worldwide phenomenon that had wreaked havoc with the global economies. ![]() Yet even as the economic recovery began to be felt, other events overseas seemed to portend further troubles ahead. And when the war started well they got work again… our neighbours, the Leggates, who lived in the Pressy home next to us, he didn't have any work, and I suppose he a lot of jobs here and there to do, but nothing in particular, because then he got a job building bridges in Eastern Ontario when the war started and she boarded the teacher and anything like that she could get to do. But some people, who had been working in Detroit, would lose their places and had to come back and live almost any place they could find to live around Arkona. And of course they really didn't get back on their feet… until the war started again. Of course after being so flat… every little bit helped. farmers:īegan to gradually get better prices. As the 1930s progressed things began to improve. While many weathered the storm of economic uncertainty comparatively well, for others it would leave many lasting scars. The Great Depression had a long and lasting effect on many people from. ![]() The hats and ribbons worn by the SS#1 students identified them as Twp., Lambton County pupils. This photo was in the London Free Press on June 8, 1939. Calla Janes, Eldon Minielly, Frances Minielly (Levi), Velma Minielly (Fraleigh) and Mary Janes (Pink) anxiously await the arrival of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on a street curb in London in 1939. ![]()
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