The Winter Years: The Depression on the Prairies |
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User Review - LibraryCin - LibraryThing3.5 stars This book looks at the “Dirty Thirties” (the depression in the 1930s) in the Prairie Provinces in Canada. More specifically, the author was living in Winnipeg at the time with a young family ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Our world stopped and we got off | 8 |
Beating the Woodyard | 19 |
Copyright | |
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