The Great Depression was a time of widespread poverty and suffering in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Factors that caused the eventual Great depression that began in the fall of 1929 and did not end until World War II.

The Great Depression hit Newfoundland hard. Its exposed, fragile economy contracted as export prices fell.

When the Commission of Government took office in 1934, Newfoundland and Labrador's education system was in desperate need of improvement.

The outbreak of the Great Depression in the fall of 1929 caused much economic hardship in Newfoundland and Labrador.