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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Canada with the correct year: France ceded nearly all its North American possessions to Great Britain in ______ at the Treaty of Paris after the Seven Years' War…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Canada with the correct year: The now British Province of Quebec was divided into Upper and Lower Canada in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about History of Canada with the correct year: Over the next eighty-two years, Canada expanded by incorporating other parts of British North America, finishing with Newfoundland…
  4. Complete the sentence about History of Canada with the correct year: Although responsible government had existed in British North America since ______, Britain continued to set its foreign and defence…
  5. Complete the sentence about Jacques Cartier with the correct year: Jacques Cartier was born in ______ in Saint-Malo, the port on the north-east coast of Brittany.
  6. Complete the sentence about Jacques Cartier with the correct year: Cartier, who was a respectable mariner, improved his social status in ______ by marrying Mary Catherine des Granches, member of a lea…
  7. Complete the sentence about Jacques Cartier with the correct year: On 20 April ______, Cartier set sail under a commission from the king, hoping to discover a western passage to the wealthy markets of…
  8. Complete the sentence about Jacques Cartier with the correct year: Cartier returned to France in September ______, sure that he had reached an Asian land.
  9. Complete the sentence about Samuel de Champlain with the correct year: Champlain made between 21 and 29 voyages across the Atlantic Ocean during his career, founding Quebec on 3 July ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Samuel de Champlain with the correct year: Born into a family of mariners, Champlain began exploring North America in ______ under the guidance of François Gravé Du Pont.
  11. Complete the sentence about Samuel de Champlain with the correct year: In ______, King Louis XIII ordered Champlain to cease exploration and focus on colonial administration.
  12. Complete the sentence about Samuel de Champlain with the correct year: Although he never held the formal title of governor due to his non-noble status, Champlain effectively governed New France until…
  13. Complete the sentence about New France with the correct year: In the ______ Treaty of Utrecht, France ceded to Great Britain its claims over mainland Acadia, Hudson Bay, and Newfoundland.
  14. Complete the sentence about New France with the correct year: To assist with those fishing rights, Great Britain returned the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which had been lost in ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about New France with the correct year: Yves Landry says, "Canadians had an exceptional diet for their time." The ______ census of New France was the first census conducted in No…
  16. Complete the sentence about John Cabot with the correct year: The main evidence for Gaeta are records of a Caboto family residing there until the mid-15th century, but ceasing to be traceable after __…
  17. Complete the sentence about John Cabot with the correct year: Pedro de Ayala, the Spanish envoy and Cabot's contemporary in London, described him in a letter to the Spanish Crown in ______ as "another…
  18. Complete the sentence about John Cabot with the correct year: In ______ Cabot was accepted into the religious confraternity of the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista.
  19. Complete the sentence about Acadia with the correct year: The first capital of Acadia was established in ______ as Port-Royal.
  20. Complete the sentence about Acadia with the correct year: Soon after, English forces of Captain Argall, an English ship's captain employed by the Virginia Company of London attacked and burned down th…
  21. Complete the sentence about Acadia with the correct year: A new centre for Port-Royal was established nearby, and it remained the longest-serving capital of French Acadia until the British siege of Po…
  22. Complete the sentence about Acadia with the correct year: Acadia was conquered in ______ during Queen Anne's War, while New Brunswick and much of Maine remained contested territory.
  23. Complete the sentence about Acadia with the correct year: The British took New Brunswick in Father Le Loutre's War, and they took Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean in ______ following the French and India…
  24. Complete the sentence about Acadia with the correct year: Lawrence River between the 40th and 46th parallels in ______, and he recognized it as La Cadie.
  25. Complete the sentence about Expulsion of the Acadians with the correct year: In ______, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the British captured Port Royal, the capital of Acadia.
  26. Complete the sentence about Expulsion of the Acadians with the correct year: The ______ Peace of Utrecht ceded the territory to Great Britain while allowing the Acadians to keep their lands.
  27. Complete the sentence about Seven Years' War with the correct year: Spain became a French ally in ______, unsuccessfully invading Portugal, and losing Havana and Manila to Britain.
  28. Complete the sentence about Seven Years' War with the correct year: Although these were returned under the Treaty of Paris in ______, France lost its possessions in North America, while Britain establ…
  29. Complete the sentence about Seven Years' War with the correct year: The conflict in Europe centred on Austrian attempts to recover Silesia, and ended with the Treaty of Hubertusburg in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Seven Years' War with the correct year: Led by George Washington, they ambushed a small French force at Jumonville Glen on 28 May ______ killing ten, including commander Jo…
  31. Complete the sentence about James Wolfe with the correct year: The advancement of his career was halted by the Peace Treaty of ______ and he spent much of the next eight years on garrison duty in the…
  32. Complete the sentence about James Wolfe with the correct year: The outbreak of the Seven Years' War in ______ offered Wolfe fresh opportunities for advancement.
  33. Complete the sentence about James Wolfe with the correct year: Around ______, the family moved to Greenwich, in north-west Kent.
  34. Complete the sentence about Louis-Joseph de Montcalm with the correct year: In ______, King Louis XV sent him to New France to lead its defence against the British in the Seven Years' War.
  35. Complete the sentence about Louis-Joseph de Montcalm with the correct year: On the death of his father in ______, he became the Marquis de Saint-Veran, inheriting the honours, rights, and debts of tha…
  36. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Paris with the correct year: France had already secretly given Louisiana to Spain three months earlier in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, but Spain did not take poss…
  37. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Paris with the correct year: Under the ______ Treaty of Utrecht, the British forced France to concede extreme limits on those fortifications.
  38. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Paris with the correct year: The ______ Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle had allowed more generous terms, and France constructed more significant defences for the town.
  39. Complete the sentence about Royal Proclamation of 1763 with the correct year: The Seven Years' War and its North American theater, the French and Indian War, ended with the ______ Treaty of Paris.
  40. Complete the sentence about Royal Proclamation of 1763 with the correct year: The Treaty of Hard Labour was followed by the Treaty of Lochaber in ______, adjusting the border between Virginia and the…
  41. Complete the sentence about Royal Proclamation of 1763 with the correct year: In ______ Daniel Boone crossed the Appalachian boundary line to hunt and explore deep into Kentucky.
  42. Complete the sentence about Quebec Act with the correct year: Following the defeat of the Kingdom of France by the Kingdom of Great Britain in the Seven Years' War, the peace was formalized with the T…
  43. Complete the sentence about Quebec Act with the correct year: Non-military administration of the territories acquired by the British in the war was defined in the Royal Proclamation of ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Constitutional Act 1791 with the correct year: The remaining provisions of the act were repealed over time, with final repeal as a matter of British law in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Constitutional Act 1791 with the correct year: The act did not originally have a short title, but by custom, it became known as the Constitutional Act, ______ in Canada.
  46. Complete the sentence about Constitutional Act 1791 with the correct year: The federal government, the Supreme Court of Canada and academics continue to refer to it as the Constitutional Act, ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about War of 1812 with the correct year: The War of ______ has been referred to by different names, often reflecting national memory as much as contemporary usage.
  48. Complete the sentence about War of 1812 with the correct year: In Britain, the war is sometimes referred to as "The American War of ______" in order to distinguish it from the Napoleonic Wars, which w…
  49. Complete the sentence about Battle of Queenston Heights with the correct year: The Battle of Queenston Heights was the first major engagement of the War of ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Battle of Queenston Heights with the correct year: Van Rensselaer was unable to launch an attack across the Niagara River in the summer of ______ due to the lack of men and…
  51. Complete the sentence about Battle of Queenston Heights with the correct year: Solomon van Rensselaer was an experienced soldier who had been wounded at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in ______, and was…
  52. Complete the sentence about Laura Secord with the correct year: In ______ he moved his family to the Niagara region of Upper Canada after he had applied for and received a land grant.
  53. Complete the sentence about Laura Secord with the correct year: Shortly after, Laura married Loyalist James Secord, who was later seriously wounded at the Battle of Queenston Heights early in the War…
  54. Complete the sentence about Laura Secord with the correct year: While he was still recovering in ______, the Americans invaded the Niagara Peninsula, including Queenston.
  55. Complete the sentence about Laura Secord with the correct year: Laura's father, Thomas Ingersoll, married seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Dewey on 28 February ______ in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
  56. Complete the sentence about Laura Secord with the correct year: Thomas, son of Jonathan Ingersoll, was born in ______ in Westfield, Massachusetts.
  57. Complete the sentence with the correct year: By ______, he was a lieutenant colonel with the 49th Regiment of Foot.
  58. Complete the sentence about Isaac Brock with the correct year: In ______, the 49th Regiment was assigned to garrison duty in British North America.
  59. Complete the sentence about Isaac Brock with the correct year: In ______ he was promoted to major general and given responsibility for defending Upper Canada against the threat of an American invasion…
  60. Complete the sentence about Isaac Brock with the correct year: When the War of ______ broke out, the populace was prepared, and quick victories at Fort Mackinac and Detroit temporarily thwarted Americ…
  61. Complete the sentence about Tecumseh with the correct year: Tecumseh's father was killed in the ______ Battle of Point Pleasant.
  62. Complete the sentence about Tecumseh with the correct year: Tecumseh was thereafter taught by his older brother Cheeseekau, a noted war chief who died fighting Americans in ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Tecumseh with the correct year: In ______, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa established Prophetstown, a village in present-day Indiana, that grew into a large, multi-tribal communi…
  64. Complete the sentence about Tecumseh with the correct year: When U.S. naval forces took control of Lake Erie in ______, Tecumseh reluctantly retreated with the British into Upper Canada.
  65. Complete the sentence about Rebellions of 1837–1838 with the correct year: The report and subsequent developments eventually led to the Constitution Act, ______, which created the contemporary country…
  66. Complete the sentence about Rebellions of 1837–1838 with the correct year: In Upper Canada, the ______ elections had been marred by political violence and fraud organized by Lieutenant Governor Franci…
  67. Complete the sentence about Act of Union 1840 with the correct year: After the War of ______, the elected assembly of Lower Canada was dominated by French Canadians.
  68. Complete the sentence about Act of Union 1840 with the correct year: The rebellion in Upper Canada in ______ was less violent than its counterpart in Lower Canada had been.
  69. Complete the sentence about Quebec Conference, 1864 with the correct year: On 10 September ______, in Halifax three days later, they drew up plans to hold another conference in Quebec to finalize the…
  70. Complete the sentence about Canadian Confederation with the correct year: The province of Prince Edward Island, which had hosted the first meeting to consider Confederation, the Charlottetown Conferen…
  71. Complete the sentence about Canadian Confederation with the correct year: As well, Joey Smallwood referred to himself as "the Last Father of Confederation" because he helped lead Newfoundland into the…
  72. Complete the sentence about British North America Act, 1867 with the correct year: Nova Scotia, the leading Canadian case on parliamentary privilege, the Supreme Court of Canada grounded its ______ de…
  73. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Section 1 gives the short title of the act as Constitution Act, ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Constitution Act, 1867 with the correct year: Political scientist Rand Dyck criticized the preamble in ______, saying it was "seriously out of date".
  75. Complete the sentence about John A. Macdonald with the correct year: As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in ______ to…
  76. Complete the sentence about John A. Macdonald with the correct year: In ______, he resigned from office over a scandal in which his party took bribes from businessmen seeking the contract to build the…
  77. Complete the sentence about George-Étienne Cartier with the correct year: In ______, he returned to Montreal after a year in exile for his role in the Lower Canada Rebellion.
  78. Complete the sentence about George-Étienne Cartier with the correct year: On his return to Lower Canada in ______, which was now Canada East of the Province of Canada, Cartier resumed his law practice…
  79. Complete the sentence about George-Étienne Cartier with the correct year: In ______, Cartier gave up his law practice and ran for office as a Reformer and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of th…
  80. Complete the sentence about George-Étienne Cartier with the correct year: During his time in the Union parliament, Cartier introduced a bill in ______ for the creation of the Grand Trunk Railway Compa…
  81. Complete the sentence about Wilfrid Laurier with the correct year: Laurier studied law at McGill University and practised as a lawyer before being elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in ____…
  82. Complete the sentence about Wilfrid Laurier with the correct year: Laurier's proposed reciprocity agreement with the United States to lower tariffs became a main issue in the ______ federal election.
  83. Complete the sentence about William Lyon Mackenzie King with the correct year: In ______, he became deputy minister of the Canadian government's new Department of Labour.
  84. Complete the sentence about William Lyon Mackenzie King with the correct year: After losing his seat in the ______ federal election, King worked for the Rockefeller Foundation before briefly working a…
  85. Complete the sentence about William Lyon Mackenzie King with the correct year: Following the death of Laurier in ______, King won the leadership of the Liberal Party.
  86. Complete the sentence about Lester B. Pearson with the correct year: In ______, he was a candidate to become the secretary-general of the United Nations, but was vetoed by the Soviet Union.
  87. Complete the sentence about Lester B. Pearson with the correct year: In ______, Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for proposing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Crisis, for which…
  88. Complete the sentence about Lester B. Pearson with the correct year: After the Liberal Party was defeated in the ______ federal election, Pearson won the leadership of the party the following year.
  89. Complete the sentence about Lester B. Pearson with the correct year: Pearson led the Liberals to a second minority government in ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Joe Clark with the correct year: Clark lost the leadership of the party to Brian Mulroney in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Brian Mulroney with the correct year: Mulroney attempted to secure Quebec's support of the Constitution Act, ______ by introducing the Meech Lake Accord and later the Charl…
  92. Complete the sentence about Brian Mulroney with the correct year: In ______, his government signed the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, leading to the creation of the territory of Nunavut.
  93. Complete the sentence about Jean Chrétien with the correct year: A Liberal, he was first elected to the House of Commons in the ______ federal election.
  94. Complete the sentence about Jean Chrétien with the correct year: Chrétien ran for the leadership of the Liberal Party in ______, placing second to John Turner.
  95. Complete the sentence about Jean Chrétien with the correct year: Chrétien briefly left politics in ______ amid tensions with Turner and began working in the private sector.
  96. Complete the sentence about Jean Chrétien with the correct year: Chrétien led the Liberal Party to a majority government in the ______ federal election.
  97. Complete the sentence about Paul Martin with the correct year: Martin ran for leader of the Liberal Party in ______, losing to Jean Chrétien.
  98. Complete the sentence about Paul Martin with the correct year: In ______, he was removed as finance minister as tensions with Chrétien reached their peak.
  99. Complete the sentence about Paul Martin with the correct year: Shortly after the defeat, Martin stepped down as Liberal leader and declined to seek re-election in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Stephen Harper with the correct year: Since ______, he has been the chairman of the International Democracy Union.

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