HISTORY 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: National Product, Activision, Tim Buck
17 Feb 2017
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North american car economy: 1920"s: us and canada become car cultures, partly due to the size of the countries. After the us, canada was the world"s number two car country (1. 9 million cars by 1929: cars imported from the us. 1922: 95,000 us cars 1930: 730,000 us cars: growth of canada"s own auto industry (100,000 auto exports by 1929, henry ford streamlines the production of automobile, introduces personal financing, ford and chrysler in windsor. Created much of the landscape we know today, massive expansion of factories: gm in oshawa. Tuesday, february 7, 2017: changes the nature of cities, strip malls, gas stations, hotels, targets automobile tourism, camping become more popular - the elite could only go camping initially. Illusory economic gains: growth of the 20"s happened too fast, producing for an economy that was not demanding, buying on credit produced vulnerability for man who had never had it before.
