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Point:

During the decade of the Roaring Twenties, many industries expanded their

production beyond demands. There was an overproduction of goods that

remained unsold in warehouses over Canada. Many workers were laid off, and

laid-off workers did not have the money to spend.

Evidence #1 (from research):

During the 1920s, many industries were expanding, and profits were spent on adding to factories or building new ones. Huge supplies of manufactured goods were simply stockpiling. Eventually, all of these unsold goods caused factory owners to panic, so they slowed down their production and laid off workers. Now these workers had even less money to spend on goods, so sales decreased even more. Basically the industrial capacity of both the USA and Canada had expanded beyond the ability of the consumer to consume.

Evidence #2 (from research):

Canadians farmers were producing far more food than the population was consuming. As farmers expanded their production to aid the war effort during WWI they also mechanized their techniques, a process which both improved their output but also cost a lot of money, putting farmers into debt. Furthermore, land prices for many farmers dropped by as much as