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| Beginning of the fall of the stock market; October 2tth 1929. |
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| Day the market actually crashed - October 29th 1929. |
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| Piece of paper that represents a share in a company. |
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| Person who buys or sells stocks. |
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| Illegally smuggling alcohol into the U.S. to make money. |
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| Brought over by troops, passed around to everybody else at home. |
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| Illegal dances where alcohol was served. |
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| Communist takeover/conspiracy, red is the symbol for communism. |
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| Anti communist organization, founded in 1885. |
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| Another name for communism. |
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| PM of Canada during the 1920's. |
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| Canadian landscape painters. |
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| Buying a stock with no money down of 10% down, then selling it before you have to pay; Caused the crash of 1929. |
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| Where people buy and sell shares. |
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| Record of what the stocks did during the day. |
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| Famous "rum running" ship. |
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| Canada's first female gold medalist. |
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| First woman elected to the provincial government. |
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| Place where stocks are traded/sold/bought. |
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| Spending on the best and selling at your highest to make more money. |
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| Invented the snow blower. |
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| Being arrested for not having a job. |
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| Alberta's first communist town. |
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| Canada's first female senator. |
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| Places that gave away free meals to poor people. |
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| Public funds given to the poor by the government. |
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| Economic decline/economic slump - when the economy falls below normal levels. |
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| Eating/surviving off the things you grow. |
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| Roughly built dwellings or shacks at the outskirts of town. |
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| Cars pulled by horses as there was no gas. |
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| Any conflict between divisions of society. |
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| First person to get old age security check. |
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| Invented the electric organ. |
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| First woman to get her pilots license. |
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| Writer of "The Strange Fugitive". |
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| Won the Boston marathon of 1926. |
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| Athlete; Candybar named after him - "Our Percy". |
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| Took the silver medal in the 100 meter dash. |
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| Invented the wire transmitter. |
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| Oil first discovered here in 1920. |
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| Traveling missionary/preacher, had a huge radio following in the 1930's. |
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| Famous 1920's baseball player. |
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| Big dust clouds that would sweep the Prairies; Name for the Prairies during the depression. |
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| A bank that went bankrupt during the 1920's; One of the biggest bank crashes of that time. |
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| A group of women who came together during the persons case. |
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| A law that prohibited consumption, sales, production, etc. of alcohol. |
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| Women who had short hair and wore fringed dresses, smoked and drank. |
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| Camps where men were housed so they could not cause trouble. |
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