Toil: creating a research based board game about Southern Alberta farm families during the Great Depression (1929-1940)

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dc.contributor.authorSmith, LaRae
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorAlexander, Kristine
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-26T19:30:20Z
dc.date.available2024-11-26T19:30:20Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.description.abstractDuring 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.
dc.description.sponsorshipSSHRC
dc.embargoNo
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6958
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of History
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of History
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)
dc.subjectGreat Depression
dc.subjectFarm families
dc.subjectBoard game
dc.subjectSouthern Alberta
dc.subject.lcshDepressions--1929--Alberta, Southern
dc.subject.lcshFamily farms--Alberta, Southern--History
dc.subject.lcshBoard games--Design and construction
dc.subject.lcshDissertations, Academic
dc.titleToil: creating a research based board game about Southern Alberta farm families during the Great Depression (1929-1940)
dc.typeThesis
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