Soup Kitchens Great Depression Canada

Few countries were affected as severely as canada.

Soup kitchens great depression canada. This famous photograph is searing in its depiction of the utter desperation the Great Depression brought to so many and has become a symbol of the Depression. Most of these soup kitchens only served bread and soup once a day because soup was economical. The Great Depression of the early 1930s was a worldwide social and economic shock.

Hoover stew was the name given to the soup from soup kitchens or. Men Eating At A Soup Kitchen During The Great Depression In Canada 1930. So basically if you lived in the country you would have to walk into the city to visit a soup kitchen.

These charities gave out free food such as bread and soup. The Great Depression left the nation devastated. After a meal most people returned to the alleyways parks or flop-houses for the night National Archives of CanadaPA-168131.

The New York stock market collapsed in the fall of 1929 as stocks lost 39 per cent of their value or 10 times the US. Parade in Toronto during the Great Depression. One soup kitchen in Chicago was even sponsored by American mobster Al Capone in an effort to clean up his image.

As a result the first major soup kitchens of the Great Depression were privately funded by individual citizens and businesses that had survived the stock market crash. - Churches other charitable organizations ran soup kitchens to feed the poor. Depression was just beginning.

These soup kitchens were run outside in cafeterias churches and service centers. The concept of soup kitchens hit the mainstream of United States consciousness during the Great Depression. Wheat in the west.