Kayak is the only place you’ll find original comics about our amazing Canadian past. Read graphic-novel-style stories from our history, brought to life by illustrator Alex Diochon in the pages of the magazine.

Dust and Depression

It’s been said that Saskatchewan went without rain for so long in the 1930s that small children didn’t know what the wet drops were when they finally did fall. The Dust Bowl was a true disaster for many western farm families.

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Project partially funded by the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage.
  • Canadian Heritage / Patrimoine Canadien
  • Government of Canada
  • HBC: Hudson's Bay Company
  • ecentricarts inc.