From bad to worse: Calgary's housing crisis & Alberta's debt legislation 1935-1945.

The election of the Social Credit rule in 1935 ushered in a period of significant legislative activity in Alberta. subordinate to Premier William Aberhart, the just discovered government's mistrust of banks and other financial institutions l to several adversarial provincial statutes. Although ultimately declared ultra vires by dint of the Supreme Court of Canada, Alberta's controversial misdoing legislation had considerable repercussions in many areas. individual of these was housing. Between 1936 and 1944 those wanting a house of their acknowledge in urban Alberta and in particular, Calgary and Edmonton, were