The Depression from 1929 to 1939, hit Canada very hard, and we got a good sense of its impact in Barry Broadfoot's oral history, Ten Lost Years, which I edited. I also edited later novels by Morley Callaghan, whose 1937 book, More Joy in Heaven is the great Canadian English book about these hard times. In French, the harsh novel, Trente Arpents/Thirty Acres by Philippe Panneton/Ringuet, ended the tradition of idyllic rural fiction worshipping the land.