Canadian Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Baffin Island with the correct year: Until ______, the town was called Frobisher Bay, after the English name for Frobisher Bay on which it is located, named for Martin Frob…
  2. Complete the sentence about Baffin Island with the correct year: The Thule people genetically and culturally completely replaced the Dorset people some time after ______ CE.
  3. Complete the sentence about Ellesmere Island with the correct year: The Thule moved into the High Arctic at the time of a warming trend, c. ______ CE.
  4. Complete the sentence about Ellesmere Island with the correct year: The Thule genetically and culturally completely replaced the Dorset some time after ______ CE.
  5. Complete the sentence about Ellesmere Island with the correct year: Edward Augustus Inglefield led an ______ expedition which surveyed the coastlines of Baffin Bay and Smith Sound, being stopped by ic…
  6. Complete the sentence about Newfoundland with the correct year: The island was possibly visited by navigator John Cabot, working under contract to Henry VII of England on his expedition from Bristol i…
  7. Complete the sentence about Newfoundland with the correct year: In ______ Portuguese brothers Gaspar Corte-Real and Miguel Corte-Real charted part of the coast of Newfoundland in an attempt to find th…
  8. Complete the sentence about Cape Breton Island with the correct year: Cape Breton Island has experienced a decline in population of approximately 2.9% since the ______ census.
  9. Complete the sentence about Bay of Fundy with the correct year: In ______, the Canadian Coast Guard adjusted shipping lanes crossing prime whale feeding areas at the entrance to the Bay of Fundy to le…
  10. Complete the sentence about Gulf of St. Lawrence with the correct year: The first documented voyage by a European in its waters was by the French explorer Jacques Cartier in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Gulf of St. Lawrence with the correct year: In ______ the English government closed all English ports to Spanish oil imports.
  12. Complete the sentence about Gulf of St. Lawrence with the correct year: Lawrence during ______ sprung her mast in a hard gale and had to go Halifax for repairs reports Rear Admiral Montagu from Boston…
  13. Complete the sentence about Arctic Archipelago with the correct year: Canadian sovereignty over the islands was established by ______ when Britain transferred them to Canada.
  14. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The district was dissolved upon the creation of Nunavut in ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Jasper National Park with the correct year: Searching for a new route to the Columbia River, David Thompson's brigade reached the upper Athabasca in December ______, led by…
  16. Complete the sentence about Jasper National Park with the correct year: In ______, François Decoigne built a new supply depot for the North West Company on Brûlé Lake.
  17. Complete the sentence about Jasper National Park with the correct year: Jasper National Park's name originates from Jasper Haws, a Maryland-born fur trader who in ______ took command of the post, whic…
  18. Complete the sentence about Gros Morne National Park with the correct year: The park was the subject of a short film in ______'s National Parks Project.
  19. Complete the sentence about Algonquin Provincial Park with the correct year: Established in ______, it is the oldest provincial park in Canada.
  20. Complete the sentence about Algonquin Provincial Park with the correct year: Researchers believe that smoke from a forest fire in Algonquin Park was responsible for New England's Dark Day of May 19, _…
  21. Complete the sentence about Algonquin Provincial Park with the correct year: As of ______, the Algonquin Forestry Authority is currently reviewing an application that would allow for expansion of curr…
  22. Complete the sentence about Pacific Rim National Park Reserve with the correct year: The recreational potential of Long Beach was known and the nonprofit Canadian National Parks Association put forwar…
  23. Complete the sentence about Pacific Rim National Park Reserve with the correct year: The project would only advance after ______ when Jean Chrétien replaced Laing, as Pierre Trudeau succeeded Lester B…
  24. Complete the sentence about Trans-Canada Highway with the correct year: Construction of the main route started in ______ due to the signing of the Trans-Canada Highway Act.
  25. Complete the sentence about CN Tower with the correct year: In ______, the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
  26. Complete the sentence about CN Tower with the correct year: Construction began on February 6, ______, with massive excavations at the tower base for the foundation.
  27. Complete the sentence about Parliament Hill with the correct year: In ______, the Parliament Buildings and the grounds of Parliament Hill were designated as National Historic Sites of Canada.
  28. Complete the sentence about Parliament Hill with the correct year: In ______, Queen Victoria selected Ottawa as the capital of the Province of Canada.
  29. Complete the sentence about Parliament Hill with the correct year: On 7 May ______, the Department of Public Works issued a call for design proposals for the new parliament buildings on Barrack Hill…
  30. Complete the sentence about Rideau Canal with the correct year: After the War of ______, information was received about the United States' plans to invade the British colony of Upper Canada from upsta…
  31. Complete the sentence about Rideau Canal with the correct year: The Rideau Route portion of this safe military supply route from Montreal to Kingston was first surveyed in ______ by Lt.
  32. Complete the sentence about Rideau Canal with the correct year: The first survey for a canal route was done in ______ by Sir Joshua Jebb.
  33. Complete the sentence about Rideau Canal with the correct year: In ______, Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, who was the Governor-in-Chief of British North America, planned to make an inspection o…
  34. Complete the sentence about Old Quebec with the correct year: Samuel de Champlain chose the Upper Town as the site for Fort Saint Louis in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Old Quebec with the correct year: During ______, Samuel de Champlain built a habitation where its remains can be found with Place Royale as its centre.
  36. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The area was designated as a National Historic Site in January ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Stanley Park with the correct year: The land was later turned into Vancouver's first park when the city incorporated in ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Stanley Park with the correct year: In ______, Vancouver City Council successfully sought a lease of the park which was granted for $1 per year.
  39. Complete the sentence about Stanley Park with the correct year: In September ______, Lord Stanley opened the park in his name.
  40. Complete the sentence about Capilano Suspension Bridge with the correct year: The bridge was originally built in ______ by George Grant Mackay, a Scottish civil engineer and park commissioner for Vanc…
  41. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The park was sold to Nancy Stibbard, the current owner, in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Capilano Suspension Bridge with the correct year: In September ______, a woman dropped her 18-month-old child with Down syndrome off the bridge.
  43. Complete the sentence about Peggy's Cove with the correct year: The first recorded name of the cove was Eastern Point Harbour or Peggs Harbour in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Point Pelee National Park with the correct year: Established in ______, Point Pelee was the first national park in Canada to be established for conservation.
  45. Complete the sentence about Point Pelee National Park with the correct year: The name was given to the area by Fathers Dollier and Galinée when they passed through the area in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Point Pelee National Park with the correct year: In ______, Deputy Indian Agent Alexander McKee negotiated a treaty with Aboriginal communities that ceded a large tract of…
  47. Complete the sentence about Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump with the correct year: The site was first recorded by Europeans in the 1880s, and first excavated by the American Museum of Natural History in…
  48. Complete the sentence about Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump with the correct year: Opened in ______, the interpretive centre at Head-Smashed-In is built into the ancient sandstone cliff in naturalistic f…
  49. Complete the sentence about Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump with the correct year: The design was awarded the Governor General's gold medal for Architecture in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Provinces and territories of Canada with the correct year: In ______, the British claims to the Arctic islands were transferred to Canada, adding to the size of the North-W…
  51. Complete the sentence about Ontario with the correct year: The first mention of the name Ontario was in ______, when "Ontario" was used to describe the land on the north shore of the easternmost part…
  52. Complete the sentence about Quebec with the correct year: French explorer Samuel de Champlain chose the name Québec in ______ for the colonial outpost he chose as the administrative seat for New Franc…
  53. Complete the sentence about British Columbia with the correct year: The colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia were incorporated in ______, after which Victoria became the united colony's c…
  54. Complete the sentence about British Columbia with the correct year: In ______, British Columbia entered Confederation as the sixth province of Canada, in enactment of the British Columbia Terms of Uni…
  55. Complete the sentence about Manitoba with the correct year: England secured control of the region in ______, creating a territory named Rupert's Land under the administration of the Hudson's Bay Compa…
  56. Complete the sentence about Nova Scotia with the correct year: Port Royal was renamed Annapolis Royal and the settlement served as the capital of Nova Scotia until the founding of Halifax in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about New Brunswick with the correct year: In ______, New Brunswick passed the Official Languages Act which began recognizing French as an official language, along with English.
  58. Complete the sentence about New Brunswick with the correct year: In ______, Acadia, the first New France colony, was founded with the creation of Port-Royal in southwest Nova Scotia.
  59. Complete the sentence about Newfoundland and Labrador with the correct year: Until ______, the Dominion of Newfoundland was a separate dominion in the British Empire.
  60. Complete the sentence about Newfoundland and Labrador with the correct year: On March 31, ______, it became the tenth and most recent province to join the Canadian Confederation as "Newfoundland".
  61. Complete the sentence about Yukon with the correct year: Yukon was split from the Northwest Territories by a federal statute in ______ as the Yukon Territory.
  62. Complete the sentence about Yukon with the correct year: The current governing legislation is the Yukon Act passed by the federal Parliament in ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Yukon with the correct year: In ______, the territorial government announced that the territory should be referred to as "Yukon", but the change in name sparked discussion…
  64. Complete the sentence about Northwest Territories with the correct year: The name was changed to the present Northwest Territories in ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Wildlife of Canada with the correct year: Over ______ invasive species of fish, plants, insects and invertebrates have been introduced to Canada through intentional and uni…
  66. Complete the sentence about Beaver with the correct year: German zoologist Heinrich Kuhl coined C. canadensis in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Canada goose with the correct year: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first citation for the 'Canada goose' dates back to ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Grizzly bear with the correct year: In ______, Rausch reduced the number of North American subspecies to one, Ursus arctos middendorffi.
  69. Complete the sentence about Canadian lynx with the correct year: The scientific name Felis lynx canadensis was proposed by Robert Kerr in ______ who described a lynx from Canada.
  70. Complete the sentence about Canadian lynx with the correct year: The placement of the Canada lynx in the genus Lynx was supported by Gerrit Miller in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Canadian lynx with the correct year: In ______, the Cat Specialist Group considered the Canada lynx a monotypic species, since it shows little morphological or genetic diff…
  72. Complete the sentence about Maple syrup with the correct year: By ______, European settlers and fur traders were involved in harvesting maple products.
  73. Complete the sentence about Northwest Passage with the correct year: An ice-bound northern route was discovered in ______ by the Irish explorer Robert McClure, whose expedition completed the passage b…
  74. Complete the sentence about Northwest Passage with the correct year: The eastern entrance and main axis of the northwest passage, the Parry Channel, was found in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Great Lakes Waterway with the correct year: Lawrence Seaway based on a document from ______, depicting the entire length beginning at the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the east…
  76. Which place completes this sentence about Montreal? Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and economic strength by ______ in the 1970s.
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Victoria, British Columbia? Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, located on the southern tip of ______ Island off Canada…
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Victoria, British Columbia? In 1841, James Douglas was charged with the duty of setting up a trading post on the southern tip of ______ Island.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Regina, Saskatchewan? The city is the second-largest in the province, after ______, and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Regina, Saskatchewan? Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, wife of the then Governor General of Canada, named the new community "Regina", in honour of her moth…
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Surrey, British Columbia? Mainly a suburban city, Surrey is the province's second-largest by population after ______ and the third-largest by area after Abbot…
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Surrey, British Columbia? Surrey, not yet a city, became a bedroom community, absorbing commuters who worked in Burnaby or ______.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Thunder Bay? In 1803, the ______-based North West Company established Fort William as its mid-continent entrepôt.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Lake Ontario? Perhaps the best-known example is ______ Bay, chosen as the site of the Upper Canada capital for its strategic harbour.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Hudson Bay? Lake ______ is similarly named by the local Cree, as is the location for the city of Winnipeg.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Gulf of St. Lawrence? Lawrence during 1772 sprung her mast in a hard gale and had to go ______ for repairs reports Rear Admiral Montagu from Boston.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Algonquin Provincial Park? Algonquin Provincial Park is an Ontario provincial park located between Georgian Bay and the ______ River, mostly within the Unorga…
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Trans-Canada Highway? After leaving the mountains, it passes through Alberta's largest city, ______.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about CN Tower? Completed in 1976, it is located in downtown ______, built on the former Railway Lands.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Parliament Hill? After the founding of ______, which was then called Bytown, the builders of the Rideau Canal sited a military base on the hill, naming it Bar…
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Rideau Canal? The Rideau Canal is a 202-kilometre long canal that links the ______ River at Ottawa with the Cataraqui River and Lake Ontario at Kingston, Onta…
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Rideau Canal? The Rideau Route portion of this safe military supply route from ______ to Kingston was first surveyed in 1783 by Lt.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Old Quebec? The Old Quebec heritage site is located in ______ although it is administratively recognized as a part of the borough La Cité-Limoilou.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Ontario? The province is additionally home to the country’s national capital, ______.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Nova Scotia? Nova Scotia's provincial capital and largest city is ______, which is home to over 45% of the province's population as of the 2021 census.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Nova Scotia? Port Royal was renamed Annapolis Royal and the settlement served as the capital of Nova Scotia until the founding of ______ in 1749.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Climate of Canada? Three of Canada's Arctic islands, Baffin Island, ______ Island, and Ellesmere Island, are among the 10 largest in the world.

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