Select Bibliography: Government Response to the Great Depression

Primary Sources:

Newfoundland: Papers Relating to the Report of the Royal Commission, 1933. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1933. Print.

Newfoundland Royal Commission, 1933. Extracts from the Newfoundland Royal Commission 1933 Report. St. John's: Harvey and Co., Ltd., 1933. Print.

Secondary Sources:

"Depression and Destitution, Effects of (the Great Depression)." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Hiller, J.K. Newfoundland and Labrador in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Brief Narrative. St. John's: Department of Education, 2005. Print.

Kavanagh, Ed and Janet McNaughton. The Struggle for Work in the Great Depression. St. John's: Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1996. Print.

Leyton, Elliot, William O'Grady, and James Overton. Violence and Public Anxiety: A Canadian Case. St. John's: Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1992. Print.

MacKay, R.A., ed. Newfoundland Economic, Diplomatic, and Strategic Studies. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1946. Print.

McGrath, Carmelita and Kathryn Welbourn. Desperate Measures: The Great Depression in Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's: Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1996. Print.

Neary, Peter. Newfoundland in the North Atlantic World, 1929 - 1949. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Print.

Noel, S.J.R. Politics in Newfoundland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971. Print.

Overton, James. "Economic Crisis and the End of Democracy: Politics in Newfoundland During the Great Depression." Labour/Le Travail 26 (1990): 85-124. Print.

---. "Poverty, Dependence and Self-Reliance: Politics, Newfoundland History and the Amulree Report of 1933." Amulree's Legacy: Truth, Lies and Consequences Symposium. Ed. Garfield Fizzard. St. John's: Newfoundland Historical Society, 2001. Print.

---. "Self-help, charity, and individual responsibility: the political economy of social policy in Newfoundland in the 1920s." Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations. Ed. James Hiller and Peter Neary. St. John's: Breakwater, 1994. Print.