Further Reading

Check out the following list of resources if you would like to read more about the topics raised in Through The Dust:

Ballantyne, Annie. “Western Canadians During the Great Depression.” Sutori, 29 Nov. 2018,

www.sutori.com/en/story/western-canadians-during-the-great-depression--xGruX46aq7KgekUPyA1CZMKG 

Belshaw, John Douglas. 8.5 The Great Depression, Canadian History: Post-Confederation. E-Book, BC

Campus, 2016.

Berton, Pierre. The Great Depression: 1929-1939. McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1990.

Caseley, Laura. “1930s Flour Sacks Featured Colorful Patterns To Make Dresses.” Little Things, 5 Nov. 2015, //littlethings.com/family-and-parenting/flour-sack-dresses

Charleston, L. J. “An Ice Pick to the Brain: The Horror of the Frontal Lobotomy.” NZ Herald, 27 July 2019.

Collins, Brianne. Uncharted Territory: Psychosurgery in Western Canada, 1935-1970.

University of Calgary, Doctoral thesis. 2020.

Deighton, Alex. The Last Asylum: Experiencing the Weyburn Mental Hospital, 1921-1939. University of

Saskatchewan, M.A. thesis. Feb. 2015.

Dyck, Erika, and Alex Deighton. Managing Madness: Weyburn Mental Hospital and the Transformation of Psychiatric Care in Canada. University of Manitoba Press, 2017.

Dyck, Alexander, MD, and Erika Dyck, PhD. Patients, Politics and Psychiatric Classification at Weyburn

Mental Hospital: 1921-1948. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

www.royalcollege.ca/rcsite/documents/awards-grants/weyburn-mental-hospital-dyck-essay.pdf

“Great Depression.” The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, University of Regina, 2006.

Lewis, Tanya. “Lobotomy: Definition, Procedure & History.” Live Science,

https://www.livescience.com/42199-lobotomy-definition.html

Liversedge, Ronald. Recollections of the on to Ottawa Trek. McGill-Queen’s Press - MQUP, 1973.

McCallum, Todd. Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine: Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver. Athabasca University Press, 2014.

McCallum, Todd. “The Reverend and the Tramp, Vancouver, 1931: Andrew Roddan’s God in the

Jungles.” BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, no. 147, 2005, pp. 51–88.

“Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA).” The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, University of

Regina, 2006.

“Riding on Top: Memoirs of a Modest Master Hobo.” 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1071279.Riding_on_Top

“The Dust Bowl.” https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP13CH1PA2LE.html

“The Great Depression in Canada” The Canadian Encyclopedia.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-depression

“The Mental Defectives Act, 1930.” The Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan, C 71, 1930.

“The Mental Diseases Act, 1930.” The Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan, C 195, 1930.

“The Mental Hygiene Act, 1936” The Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan. C 91, s 1, 1936.

“The On-To-Ottawa Trek” The Encyclopedia of BC Preview. https://www.knowbc.com/limited/Books/On-the-Line/Chapter-7#prettyPhoto

Waiser, Bill. “The Regina Riot” Canada’s History. www.canadashistory.ca/explore/peace- conflict/the-regina-riot

“Weyburn Mental Hospital.” Soo Line Historical Museum, Weyburn SK,

www.communitystories.ca/v1/pm_v2.php? id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000363