Women in Canadian History Education Guide

#3 Lambert, Saskatchewan. February 23, 1934. “I am writing you regarding Relief Will you please tell me if we can get Steady relief & how much we should be allowed per week[.] we have three children 2 of School age, one boy is going to School Some day’s he cant go to school as we have no food in the house & I wont let him go those day’s. […] we came to Lambert we came here on the intentions of taking up a home stead & we couldnt locate any land suitable & the water here is rank. everytime I go up to ask the Mayor here in lambert for any asistances he always Says he cant help us as the town is broke […] we are living in a shack two rooms a bed room Just enough room for two beds & the house is cold theres two inches of Ice freezes on the water in the house cold nights we are shivering in bed at night we have no matresses on our beds, only gunny Sacks & not enough blankets on our beds. […] I have no house dresses & no wash tub & when I tell Mayor Veal those thing’s he says why dont you go back to Manitoba where you came from its a nice thing for a old country english man to tell a Canadian in its own country Eh. […] all I have in the house now is potatoes & there are good meny people the same in this town[.] I am five months pregnant & I havent even felt life yet to my baby & its I feel quite sure for the lack of food […]” Mrs. C.L. Warden Source : Michael Bliss and Linda M. Grayson, eds., The Wretched of Canada: Letters to R.B. Bennett , 1930-1935 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971), 75