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By: Callan
 

The Grade 6/7 class found out that the population of Canada changed over the years.  In some years it grew in great numbers while in other only a small amount. Why?  The class surveyed people of all ages in the school and came up with some interesting results.  They then wrote some paragraphs about some of the events that affected population in Canada.

By: Darcy

Writeup on World War 1
     My grade 6/7 class are unanimous with the thought that World War 1 caused a population change because people went to war causing the population to decrease.  If some people didn’t go to the war, they usually abandoned their farms and moved to large cities.  The people that did go to the war either didn’t come back or they moved to the cities because the cities provided a better opportunity and a cheaper, better way of life.  That’s what caused a population decrease during World War 1.
by: Alicia
 

By: Adam

The Great Depression
 The Great Depression all started in 1929 and carried through until 1942.  When the great depression was going on there were many of men riding on the rail roads a cross Canada to find jobs.  The Governments tried to provide clothing and foods for this disasterous happening.  Wheat dropped $1.61 a bushel in 1929 to $0.38 a bushel in 1932 that would  make people not afford to keep their cars running so Bennett Buggies were given to them.  In 1933 over 30% of the labour force was jobless.  Prairie winds stripped the topsoil.  Every city and town had a soup kitchen.  by:Hayley

By: Scott

Technology and Industry
In the early 1900’s Canada  was mainly an  agricultural country. From the dirties  thirties to the mid 1970 ‘s   Canada ‘s manufactured  goods increased . This change  in technology  and industry caused people to move to the east . the reason they moved was because most of the Industry was in the east, because they have a wate way that provided cheaper shipping.
         The  other reason they moved is because of the drought and life in the city was much easier than on the farm.
by: Jana
 
 

Saskatchewan Findings
The class also studied Torquay and area.  They found out about what happened in Saskatchewan that changed populations.

  The 1991 Canadian census reported that Saskatchewan had 988,928 people.  The population of the province had decreased about 2 percent below the 1986 figure of 1,010,198.

Over half the people of Saskatchewan live in cities and towns.  Saskatchewan has two Census Metropolitan Areas as defined by Statistics Canada, Regina and Saskatoon.  The province has nine cities with populations of more than 10,000.  They are, in order of size, Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, Swift Current, Yorkton, North Battleford, Estevan, and Weyburn.  About a third of the province's people live in Regina and Saskatoon.  For more information, see the separate articles on the cities and towns of Saskatchewan listed in the Related articles at the end of this article.

Over 90 percent of Saskatchewan's people were born in Canada.  Most of those born in other countries came from Britain, the United States, or the Soviet Union.  About half the province's people have some British ancestry.  Other large groups, in order of size, include Germans, Ukrainians, and French.  There are about 52,000 North American Indians.  Another 17,000 people have some American Indian ancestry.  More than a third of the province's Indians live on reserves.  The remaining Indians and several thousand metis live mainly in the province's northern and central regions.

Schools.  In 1840, the Church of England and the Hudson's Bay Company established the first school in the Saskatchewan region, at the settlement of Cumberland House.  Missions and churches provided the only schooling in the region until 1884.  That year, the federal government started a system of public education.

Today, Saskatchewan's public schools are administered by local boards of education.  They are tax-supported and supervised by the provincial department of education.  There are about 850 public and private schools in the province.  Private schools are tax-supported schools operated by a religious group.  They are controlled by separate school boards and the provincial department of education.  Children from 7 through 15 years old must attend school.

:By Shawn
 

Write up On The Dirty Thirties
 In my classes opinion, the Dirty Thirties caused a decrease in population.  The reason we think this is because ,stock markets dropped and there was a big loss of money.  There was over 600,000 people that were unemployed, and there was a severe drought.  the land was said to look like a desert.  There was a lack of food, water, and clothes.  Without  no food, money and clothes and unemployment, people began to move to the east, were there was more industries, money, water, and employment.
 In the 1930’s and 1940’s, the average family consisted of 11-12 children even though it may seem like large families would stay in rural places, they didn’t.  Instead, they moved to the cities where there were more opportunities.  by: Julia
 

What Caused Changes in Population?
The History of Saskatchewan
 Good free land and rising wheat prices attracted thousands of immigrants from Europe and the United States.  The larger population required a more efficient government than a territorial administration.  In 1905, the Canadian government created the province of Saskatchewan.  Walter Scott, a Liberal, became the first premier.
The early 1900's.  The Saskatchewan legislature met for the first time in 1906, in Regina.  Settlement spread rapidly, railway construction expanded, and cities grew into important trading and supply centers.
During World War I (1914-1918), the province's farmers provided Britain and its allies with great amounts of food.  Farm production continued to increase after the war.  But world wheat prices fell, and a better method of the marketing of grain was needed.  This need gave birth in 1924 to the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, which became a huge farmers' cooperative.
Between world wars.  The depression caused by the fall of wheat prices ended after a few years, and Saskatchewan's farmers prospered again.  In 1930, the provincial government took control of Saskatchewan's natural resources, including forests and mineral deposits.  These resources had been controlled by the federal government since territorial days.
The Great Depression of the 1930's hit Saskatchewan hard, and farm prices dropped again.  Drought, soil drifting, and grasshoppers destroyed crops.  The Wheat Pool nearly collapsed early in this period.  Thousands of people left Saskatchewan to seek work elsewhere.  The federal government provided some emergency financial aid.  It also formed the Canadian Wheat Board in 1935 to restore order to the marketing of wheat.  After 1935, the federal Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration developed work programs and land improvement projects.
Late in June 1935, a trainload of unemployed workers arrived in Regina from British Columbia, which was also suffering from the depression.  They had been going to Ottawa to complain to the federal government about their living conditions, but federal officials ordered them to stop.  The workers resented this order.  On July 1, a fight called the Regina Riot occurred between the police and some of the workers.  Many on both sides were injured, and the rioters killed one policeman.  The workers returned to their homes a few days later.
The mid-1900's brought great political, economic, and social changes to the province.  Since 1905, Saskatchewan voters had elected Liberal Party governments in every election except one.  But in 1944, the voters elected a socialist government headed by Thomas C. Douglas of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).  The CCF was the first socialist government ever elected to office in Canada.  It controlled the provincial government from 1944 to 1964, when the Liberals won control.  In 1961, the CCF had merged with several labor unions to form the New Democratic Party at the national level.  The party in Saskatchewan became known as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation--Saskatchewan Section of the New Democratic Party.  In 1967, it changed its name to New Democratic Party--Saskatchewan Section.  It is commonly called the New Democratic Party.
The CCF pioneered in health programs that became models for similar plans throughout Canada.  In 1947, Saskatchewan became the first province to provide hospital care for all its people.  In 1962, it became the first province to furnish medical care for all residents.  Many people, especially physicians, opposed the 1962 plan at first.  In 1962, in protest against the plan, doctors treated only emergency cases for 23 days.  But the plan later was accepted throughout Saskatchewan.  In 1967, it became part of a larger program established by the Canadian government for all Canadians.
During the first years of the CCF administration, the provincial government experimented with state-owned companies called crown corporations.  Many of these corporations failed.  As a result, the government changed to a policy of encouraging industrial growth by welcoming private investment and by lending money to private industries.  Several crown corporations, including an electric power and natural gas utility, an insurance company, and a provincial bus company, succeeded and are still in operation.
Industrial development started later in Saskatchewan than in most other parts of Canada.  Rapid industrialization began in the early 1950's, and much of it was related to mineral discoveries.  Major deposits of petroleum were discovered in 1951 and 1952.  In the early 1970's, Saskatchewan was producing about a fifth of Canada's oil.  Potash beds of unusual purity and quantity were discovered in the early 1950's, and continuous potash production began in 1962.  Saskatchewan's uranium industry also grew rapidly in the 1950's.
Along with increased industrialization, major changes took place in Saskatchewan's agricultural economy.  In the mid-1900's, farmers stepped up their use of machinery.  The increased use of machinery, along with improved farming methods, enabled the farmers to produce more with a smaller number of workers.  By the late 1960's, Saskatchewan had fewer but larger farms as many small family farms were replaced by larger farms.
In 1946, about three-fourths of Saskatchewan's people lived in rural areas.  Industrial development and agricultural changes caused many farmworkers to enter the petroleum and potash industries or related industries.  By 1969, about half the people lived in cities or towns.
Recent developments.  Agriculture continued to be the province's largest source of income from the 1970's to the mid-1980's.  Saskatchewan farmers harvested an almost unbroken series of huge wheat crops in these years.  At the same time, world markets for wheat continually rose and fell, resulting at times in a huge build-up of wheat supplies.  To avoid the risks of a one-crop industry, many Saskatchewan farmers added the raising of livestock and poultry to their activities.
During the 1970's and 1980's, Saskatchewan had one of the lowest unemployment rates in Canada.  However, in the late 1980's, unemployment rose because of a combination of poor wheat harvests due to drought and weak international markets.  The population declined as people left the province to look for work.
 

 Torquay--Saskatchewan-Population(1996)