To Prime Minister Bennett:
I was lucky to get a chance to travel across the Canada this time. With starting my trips from BC, I know a lot of people lost their jobs due to the great depression, I can see a lot of relief camps were built to help those people who lost their jobs. People in the camps are stratifying with all the supply they can get from working like logging in the forest or building some sort of public transportation. I feel like the people in the camps were doing so much work but only get paid so little, hope you had notice that, I am worrying about strike will happened dur to the 44 hours work in a week. And for the next few days, when I was on my way to Ottawa, the worst things that I expected is happening, all those tired camp workers wan to go to Ottawa to have a strike, they climbed on the unprotected train only for getting Ottawa. Hopefully Mr. Bennett could solve this issue. I also saw that those churches are helping the people who lost their jobs, they opened something call “Soup Kitchens” to provide people a warm meal, unfortunately, some churches were against women- they only provide breakfast for men, like in Pogey. The effects of the great depression are obviously in all the provinces across Canada, homeless people were all laying on the street, a scene I ever seeing in my entire life. Especially for those farmers in the Prairies. The life quality of famers is highly depending on the situations, at this time period, the wheat’s price has dropped to lowest price ever, and the income of the farmers had drop half already, also, due to the drought, the farmers in Saskatchewan can’t even grow more foods. All those issues are the real things I witnessed, hope you can hook some thing up with everything occurred, occurring out there.
Hope you have a great day.
Sincerely,
An unknown traveler
1935, May, 22th.

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Respond letter:

My dear wife,

Thankfully I can ready your letter here, my love. The war was going hard here, I eventually find times to write this letter back to you, sorry if my writing is scribbled, the conditions was not so well there. Anyway, hope you are doing good back home, I can understand when all the man like me go to the war, fight for the honor of our country, the female left at home must took all the work of us. I always believe that female can doing as well as man, that with no double at all. With the sufficient moneys, our home country provided, we got pretty much everything I needed, even the gas masks that we just got because of the chlorine gases that German just used in the battle of Ypres, but don’t worry about me, I am doing alright there, I got the gas masks before the chlorine gas spread to my trench, but many of my friends left injured. Though… hopefully, the condition in the trench could improve by time, the water inside the trench just bother me so much, I got to stay there all the time all day during the battles. Let’s work together to get over this war. Long live the queen!

Your love,

Soliders

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