Canada after the War

• • Veterans unable to work lived off government pensions: others went to school or into trades with government grant
• • Received loans to purchase land, stock, and equipment to start farms through what was called the Soldier Settlement Act
• • Could not find stable work because women and technological advances 
• • Indigenous veterans were excluded from government sponsored programs
• • Economic slump due to war ending
• • Industries that produce weapons for war temporarily shut down and switched to peacetime production
• • Countries in Europe began to grow their wheat leaving Canadian farmers to lose a lot of their overseas markets
• • Prices rose after the war because government took off price restrictions
• • Labour and union movements began to form and a new social outlook began to develop (i.e. Winnipeg General Strike)