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1930
 
    
In The Fur Trade in Canada Harold Innis traces the economic development linking the trade and the nation       
1930
 
   
Conservative leader R.B. Bennett defeats the Liberals and becomes prime minister of Canada      
1931
 
    
The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth       
1933
 
  
25% of workers in Canada are unemployed as the Depression continues to deepen     
1934
 
   
Five girls are born as quintuplets in the Dionne family of French Catholic farmers in Corbeil, Ontario      
1935
 
   
Strikers in Vancouver begin the On-to-Ottawa Trek, to take their grievances to government      
1935
 
   
W.L. Mackenzie King starts another long spell, of thirteen years, as Canadian prime minister      
1936
 
   
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is founded as a public service in competition with private radio stations      
1942 August 19
 
   
Canadian troops provide most of the assault force in a disastrous raid on Dieppe      
1942 December 2
 
   
The loss of merchant shipping to U-boats reaches a peak in the Battle of the Atlantic, with 1.5 million tons sunk in the last quarter of the year