Canada Year Book, 1937-1939: Dominion grants-in-aid for relief, and provincial revenues

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Canada Year Book, 1937-1939: Dominion grants-in-aid for relief, and provincial revenues
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other
date
1937-1939
repository
Statistics Canada, historical Canada Year Book
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https://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/1938/193808370775_p.%20775.pdf
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image
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public

Read 10 Oct 2026 from the scanned pages:

What it shows: Ottawa's share of BC's relief was falling through 1936-37, and BC had the largest provincial revenue per head in Canada. See Duff Pattullo, 22nd Premier of British Columbia: what did he get right, and what did he get wrong?.

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  2. title: "Canada Year Book, 1937-1939: Dominion grants-in-aid for relief, and provincial revenues"
  3. type: other
  4. date: 1937-1939
  5. repository: Statistics Canada, historical Canada Year Book
  6. url: "https://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/1938/193808370775_p.%20775.pdf"
  7. seen: image
  8. access: public
  9. ---
  11. Read 10 Oct 2026 from the scanned pages:
  12. - **The monthly Dominion grant-in-aid to British Columbia for direct relief:** $223,125 (April-June 1936)
  13. and $200,812.50 (July-December 1936) (Year Book 1937, p. 761,
  14. https://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/1937/193708210761_p.%20761.pdf); $150,000, $120,000 and $115,000 for the
  15. three quarters from April to December 1937 (Year Book 1938, p. 775). The grant roughly halved between
  16. spring 1936 and the end of 1937.
  17. - **Revenue per head, 1937:** British Columbia $42.05, the highest of the provinces (Ontario $28.86) (Year
  18. Book 1939, p. 911, https://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/1939/193909850911_p.%20911.pdf).
  20. What it shows: Ottawa's share of BC's relief was falling through 1936-37, and BC had the largest provincial
  21. revenue per head in Canada. See `pattullo-premiership`.
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