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History of Canada
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- Where did Norse explorers build a settlement about a thousand years ago?
- In 1497, John Cabot sailed from England and explored the coast of which region?
- The name Canada comes from which word?
- Who founded the first permanent French settlement at Quebec City in 1608?
- Which company, founded in 1670, controlled the fur trade across much of the north and west?
- Which battle in 1759 led to British control of New France?
- Which 1763 document recognized Aboriginal rights to land and set out how treaties were to be made?
- What did the Quebec Act of 1774 allow in the colony of Quebec?
- Who were the United Empire Loyalists?
- What did the Constitutional Act of 1791 create?
- Which war saw Canadians and the British defend British North America against American invasion, with figures such as Tecumseh and Laura Secord?
- Which colony was the first in British North America to achieve responsible government, in 1848?
- Which four provinces formed the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867?
- Who became Canada's first Prime Minister?
- In which city was the 1864 conference that started the Confederation talks first held?
- Which province was created in 1870 after the Red River Resistance led by Louis Riel?
- Which province joined Confederation in 1871 on the promise of a railway link to the East?
- Which force, created in 1873, became the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
- The last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven in 1885 at Craigellachie in which province?
- What was the Chinese head tax?
- Which two provinces were created in 1905?
- What drew thousands of people to the Yukon in the late 1890s?
- What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 remembered for?
- In which year did most Canadian women win the right to vote in federal elections?
- Which province was the last to grant women the right to vote in provincial elections?
- The Persons Case of 1929, brought by the Famous Five, established what?
- What did the Statute of Westminster of 1931 do?
- Which beach did Canadian troops land on during D-Day on June 6, 1944?
- What happened to many Japanese Canadians during the Second World War?
- Which province became Canada's tenth province in 1949?
- Which province introduced the first public medical insurance plan in the early 1960s?
- In what year did the maple leaf flag first fly over Canada?
- What did the Official Languages Act of 1969 declare?
- What was the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s?
- What did the Truth and Reconciliation Commission examine?
- Which territory was created in 1999 from part of the Northwest Territories?
- What was Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope in 1980?
- What happened to the Acadians in 1755?
- Lester B. Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for what?
- Pier 21 in Halifax is remembered as what?
- When did the Constitution come home from Britain, so that Canada could amend it without a British Act?
- In 1784, the British split a colony in two so that Loyalists settling along the Saint John River had their own government. Which colony was created?
- Which force was created in 1873 to bring law and order to the West?
- Which war ended in 1814 and helped shape Canada by repelling American invasions?
- On which beach in Normandy did Canadian troops land on D-Day, 6 June 1944?
- Who was Canada's first Prime Minister?
- In which year did Newfoundland join Canada?
- In which year did Alberta and Saskatchewan become provinces?
- Which territory was created from the Northwest Territories on 1 April 1999?
- Which holiday on 11 November honours those who served and died in war?
- Which explorer claimed the land for France at Gaspé in 1534?
- Who began the Marathon of Hope in 1980 to raise money for cancer research?
- Which explorer reached Newfoundland in 1497 on behalf of England?
- Which three groups are recognised as Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution?
- Who founded Québec City in 1608?
- Which Act recognised English and French as official languages of the federal government in 1969?
- In which year did Canada's maple leaf flag fly for the first time?
- Which four provinces first joined in Confederation on 1 July 1867?
- Who led the MĂ©tis in the Red River Resistance of 1869-1870 and the North-West Resistance of 1885?
- Which prime minister introduced the policy of multiculturalism in 1971?
- Who was the first French-Canadian Prime Minister of Canada, elected in 1896?
- What did the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada examine?
- In which year did Canada declare war on Germany at the start of the Second World War?
- Which event of 1896 brought thousands of prospectors to Yukon?
- Why were the voyageurs important to early Canada?
- Which province joined Confederation in 1871 on the promise of a railway?
- What was the main purpose of the Underground Railroad?
- Which statute of 1931 gave Canada full legal independence in its foreign affairs?
- In what year did women first win the right to vote in most federal elections?
- Which province joined Confederation in 1870 after the Red River Resistance?
- Which disaster destroyed part of Halifax in December 1917?
- Which two colonies did the Constitutional Act of 1791 create?
- What happened to the Chinese workers who built the railway and later arrived in Canada after 1885?
- Who is known as the 'father of medicare' for introducing public health insurance in Saskatchewan?
- What was the Hudson's Bay Company, founded in 1670?
- What happened on the Plains of Abraham in 1759?
- Who walked 30 kilometres in 1813 to warn the British of an American attack?
- Which battle of 1917 is seen as a defining moment for Canada in the First World War?
- Which document of 1763 recognised Aboriginal rights to land and set rules for treaties?
- Which Shawnee leader was an ally of Isaac Brock in the War of 1812?
- What was completed at Craigellachie, British Columbia, in 1885?
- What did the Quebec Act of 1774 allow in Québec?
- What was the Act of Union of 1840?
- What was the October Crisis of 1970?
- Who discovered insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-1922?
- In which year did Canada's Constitution come home to Canada from Britain?
- Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for his role in resolving the Suez Crisis?
- What was the Great Upheaval of 1755?
- Who were the 'filles du roi'?
- Of Manitoba (1870), British Columbia (1871) and Prince Edward Island (1873), which was the last to join Confederation?
- Which list shows these British laws for North America in the correct order?
- How many years passed between the Plains of Abraham (1759) and the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War (1763)?
- What did the Persons Case of 1929 decide?
- In what year did Canada join NATO?
- How many years separate women winning the federal vote (1918) and the Persons Case decision (1929)?
- Which Canadian-born person became Governor General of Canada for the first time in 1952?
- Which treaty of 1763 gave Britain most of New France?
- How many years after Confederation (1867) did the maple leaf flag first fly (1965)?
- Which leaders won responsible government in the Province of Canada in 1848?
- How did the Prime Minister apologise in 2008 for the Indian residential school system?