Toil: creating a research based board game about Southern Alberta farm families during the Great Depression (1929-1940)
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Date
2024
Authors
Smith, LaRae
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
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Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of History
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During the Great Depression, 1929-1940, farming families in southern Alberta contended with what are now recognized as the three defining features of that decade: economic downturn, drought, and drifting soil. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival research, this thesis examines (1) the challenges that southern Alberta family farms faced during the Great Depression, and how the men, women and children of these families contribute to their family’s economic survival, and (2) how creating a boardgame on the topic of southern Alberta family farms during the Great Depression can help us to understand the time, the challenges that it presented, and how farming families responded. This thesis provides a look at the research done, the process of creating “Toil”, and the rationale behind turning the extensive historical research done into a board game format.
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Great Depression , Farm families , Board game , Southern Alberta