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  1. Complete the sentence about Quebec French with the correct year: With the onset of British rule in ______, the French of Canada became isolated from that of Europe.
  2. Complete the sentence about Poutine with the correct year: In the early 1970s, La Banquise began serving poutine in Montreal, followed by the Burger King chain in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Poutine with the correct year: In November ______, Martin Picard of bistro Au Pied de Cochon began serving a foie gras poutine which was praised by customers and food criti…
  4. Complete the sentence about Nanaimo bar with the correct year: In ______, Mayor Graeme Roberts initiated a contest to find the ultimate Nanaimo bar recipe.
  5. Complete the sentence about Tim Hortons with the correct year: On August 26, ______, Burger King agreed to merge with Tim Hortons for US$11.4 billion.
  6. Complete the sentence about Tim Hortons with the correct year: The chain's first donut store opened on May 17, ______, in Hamilton, Ontario, under the name Tim Horton Donuts.
  7. Complete the sentence about Canadian whisky with the correct year: In ______ Canada became the first country to enact an aging law for whiskies, requiring them to be aged at least two years.
  8. Complete the sentence about Canadian whisky with the correct year: After Hatch's falling out with Davis, Hatch purchased the struggling Gooderham and Worts in ______ and switched out Davis's whisky fo…
  9. Complete the sentence about Ice wine with the correct year: Better documentation exists for an ice wine harvest in Dromersheim close to Bingen in Rheinhessen on February 11, ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Ice wine with the correct year: Throughout the 19th century and until ______, Eiswein harvests were a rare occurrence in Germany.
  11. Complete the sentence about Ice wine with the correct year: Only six 19th-century vintages with Eiswein harvests have been documented, including ______, the first Eiswein at Schloss Johannisberg.
  12. Complete the sentence about Canadian beer with the correct year: The first commercial brewery was La Brasseries du Roy started by New France Intendant Jean Talon, in Québec City in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Canadian beer with the correct year: The result is that Moosehead, with an estimated 3.8 percent share of the domestic market in ______, has become the largest fully Canadi…
  14. Complete the sentence about Canadian beer with the correct year: In ______, the best-selling brand was Budweiser, with many of its products manufactured in Canada.
  15. Complete the sentence about Caesar with the correct year: In December ______, columnist Walter Winchell reported that the drink was seasoned with "a dash of Wooooshhhtasheer Sauce".
  16. Complete the sentence about Caesar with the correct year: Seagram, headquartered 2 blocks from the Polonaise, filed a trademark application on the name "Clamdigger" claiming first use on May 31, _____…
  17. Complete the sentence about Caesar with the correct year: In Calgary, Mayor Dave Bronconnier celebrated the drink's anniversary by declaring May 13, ______ Caesar Day in the city.
  18. Complete the sentence about Ice hockey in Canada with the correct year: Lord Stanley of Preston was appointed by Queen Victoria to be the Governor General of Canada on June 11, ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about National Hockey League with the correct year: The league expanded to the United States in ______, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of both American an…
  20. Complete the sentence about Stanley Cup with the correct year: Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Stanley Cup with the correct year: In ______, the modern one-piece Cup was designed with a five-band barrel which could contain 13 winning teams per band.
  22. Complete the sentence about Montreal Canadiens with the correct year: Since ______, the team has played its home games at the Bell Centre, originally known as the Molson Centre.
  23. Complete the sentence about Toronto Maple Leafs with the correct year: Conn Smythe renamed the franchise to the Maple Leafs after buying it in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Toronto Maple Leafs with the correct year: The team played home games at the Mutual Street Arena for its first 14 seasons before moving to Maple Leaf Gardens in ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Toronto Maple Leafs with the correct year: Since February ______, the Maple Leafs play at Scotiabank Arena, which was formerly known as Air Canada Centre.
  26. Complete the sentence about Toronto Maple Leafs with the correct year: Toronto's inclusion in the NHL's inaugural season was formally announced on November 26, ______, with concerns over the Bulldogs'…
  27. Complete the sentence about Edmonton Oilers with the correct year: Among all NHL teams, only the Montreal Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup more times since the league's ______ expansion.
  28. Complete the sentence about Vancouver Canucks with the correct year: The Canucks joined the league in ______ as an expansion team along with the Buffalo Sabres.
  29. Complete the sentence about Vancouver Canucks with the correct year: Established in ______, the Millionaires were one of three teams in the new Pacific Coast Hockey Association.
  30. Complete the sentence about Calgary Flames with the correct year: The team was founded in ______ in Atlanta as the Atlanta Flames.
  31. Complete the sentence about Calgary Flames with the correct year: In ______, the Flames won their first and only Stanley Cup title.
  32. Complete the sentence about Calgary Flames with the correct year: In ______, Cousins was forced to sell the Flames to prevent bankruptcy.
  33. Complete the sentence about Ottawa Senators with the correct year: The team plays its home games at Canadian Tire Centre, which opened in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Ottawa Senators with the correct year: The Senators have made 18 playoff appearances, won four division titles, and won the ______ Presidents' Trophy.
  35. Complete the sentence about Ottawa Senators with the correct year: Louis in ______ operating as the Eagles while a Senators senior amateur team took over the Senators' place in Ottawa.
  36. Complete the sentence about Winnipeg Jets with the correct year: In ______, team owner Barry Shenkarow sold the team to American businessmen Steven Gluckstern and Richard Burke.
  37. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Jets played their last game before moving on April 28, ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Winnipeg Jets with the correct year: The city of Atlanta was awarded an NHL expansion franchise, named the Atlanta Thrashers, on June 25, ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Wayne Gretzky with the correct year: At the time of his retirement in ______, he held 61 NHL records: 40 regular season records, 15 playoff records, and six All-Star record…
  40. Complete the sentence about Wayne Gretzky with the correct year: Traded to the Los Angeles Kings where he played eight seasons, he led them to the ______ Stanley Cup Final, and he is credited with pop…
  41. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Howe was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players".
  42. Complete the sentence about Gordie Howe with the correct year: Howe retired for the first time in ______ and was immediately inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame that same year.
  43. Complete the sentence about Maurice Richard with the correct year: Richard retired in ______ as the National Hockey League's all-time leader in goals with 544.
  44. Complete the sentence about Maurice Richard with the correct year: The Hall of Fame waived its five-year waiting period for eligibility and inducted Richard in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Sidney Crosby with the correct year: Nicknamed "Sid the Kid" and dubbed "The Next One", he was selected first overall by the Penguins in the ______ NHL entry draft.
  46. Complete the sentence about Alice Munro with the correct year: Two months after Munro died, her daughter Andrea Skinner revealed that Munro's second husband, Gerald Fremlin, had sexually abused Skinne…
  47. Complete the sentence about Alice Munro with the correct year: Munro learned of the abuse in ______ and chose to stay with Fremlin.
  48. Complete the sentence about Alice Munro with the correct year: Munro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw in rural Wingham, Ontario, in ______, during the Great Depression.
  49. Complete the sentence about Michael Ondaatje with the correct year: In ______, he re-joined his mother in England. where he attended Dulwich College.
  50. Complete the sentence about Michael Ondaatje with the correct year: In ______, he taught English literature at Glendon College, York University.
  51. Complete the sentence about Robertson Davies with the correct year: Davies left Canada to study at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a BLitt degree in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Robertson Davies with the correct year: In ______, he played small roles and did literary work for the director at the Old Vic Repertory Company in London.
  53. Complete the sentence about Robertson Davies with the correct year: Davies and his new bride returned to Canada in ______, where he took the position of literary editor at Saturday Night magazine.
  54. Complete the sentence about Mordecai Richler with the correct year: Urbain's Horseman and ______ novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were nominated for the Booker Prize.
  55. Complete the sentence about Mordecai Richler with the correct year: Worrying "about being so long away from the roots of my discontent", Richler returned to Montreal in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Mordecai Richler with the correct year: In England, in ______, Richler married Catherine Boudreau, nine years his senior.
  57. Complete the sentence about L. M. Montgomery with the correct year: Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in ______ with…
  58. Complete the sentence about L. M. Montgomery with the correct year: Montgomery was born in New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Anne of Green Gables with the correct year: In ______, an authorized prequel, Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson was published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of…
  60. Complete the sentence about Leonard Cohen with the correct year: In ______, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.
  61. Complete the sentence about Leonard Cohen with the correct year: In ______, Cohen returned with the more traditional Recent Songs, which blended his acoustic style with jazz, East Asian, and Mediterra…
  62. Complete the sentence about Leonard Cohen with the correct year: I'm Your Man in ______ marked Cohen's turn to synthesized productions.
  63. Complete the sentence about Leonard Cohen with the correct year: In ______, Cohen released its follow-up, The Future, which had dark lyrics and references to political and social unrest.
  64. Complete the sentence about Yann Martel with the correct year: Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain, in ______ to French-Canadians Émile Martel and Nicole Perron who were studying at the University of…
  65. Complete the sentence about Yann Martel with the correct year: Martel moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with Kuipers in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Yann Martel with the correct year: Martel's work first appeared in print in ______ in The Malahat Review with his short story Mister Ali and the Barrelmaker.
  67. Complete the sentence about Yann Martel with the correct year: In ______, the Malahat brought out his short story The Time I Heard the Private Donald J.
  68. Complete the sentence about Yann Martel with the correct year: The cultural magazine Border Crossings published his short story Industrial Grandeur in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Stephen Leacock with the correct year: Stephen Leacock was born on 30 December ______ in Swanmore, a village near Southampton in Southern England.
  70. Complete the sentence about Stephen Leacock with the correct year: Stephen's father, Peter, became an alcoholic; in the fall of ______, Peter travelled west to Manitoba with his brother E.P.
  71. Complete the sentence about Stephen Leacock with the correct year: Leacock graduated in ______, and returned home to find that his father had returned from Manitoba.
  72. Complete the sentence about Stephen Leacock with the correct year: In ______, seventeen-year-old Leacock started at University College at the University of Toronto, where he was admitted to the Zeta P…
  73. Complete the sentence about Farley Mowat with the correct year: The latter, an account of his experiences with wolves in the Arctic, was made into a film of the same name released in ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Farley Mowat with the correct year: For his body of work as a writer he won the annual Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Farley Mowat with the correct year: Mowat was born May 12, ______, in Belleville, Ontario, and grew up in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
  76. Complete the sentence about Canadian music with the correct year: The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences presents Canada's music industry awards, the Juno Awards, which were first awarded…
  77. Complete the sentence about Canadian music with the correct year: The Canadian Music Hall of Fame, established in ______, honours Canadian musicians for their lifetime achievements.
  78. Complete the sentence about Canadian music with the correct year: The earliest work of patriotic music in Canada, "The Bold Canadian", was written in ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Canadian music with the correct year: The national anthem, "O Canada", was originally commissioned by the lieutenant governor of Quebec, Théodore Robitaille, for the ______…
  80. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony and was officially adopted in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The text was originally only in French before it was adapted into English in ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Gordon Lightfoot with the correct year: Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario, on November 17, ______, to Jessie Vick Trill Lightfoot and Gordon Lightfoot Sr., who owned a…
  83. Complete the sentence about Gordon Lightfoot with the correct year: Lightfoot relocated to Los Angeles in ______ to study jazz composition and orchestration for two years at the Westlake College of Mu…
  84. Complete the sentence about Gordon Lightfoot with the correct year: Homesick for Toronto, he returned there in ______ and lived in Canada thereafter, though some of his recording and much of his touri…
  85. Complete the sentence about Joni Mitchell with the correct year: Among her accolades are eleven Grammy Awards, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Neil Young with the correct year: Son of journalist and author Scott Young, Young began his music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s and moved to Los Angeles in ______ to form…
  87. Complete the sentence about Neil Young with the correct year: Neil Percival Young was born on November 12, ______, in Toronto, Ontario.
  88. Complete the sentence about Rush with the correct year: Rush was nominated for seven Grammy Awards, won ten Juno Awards, and won an International Achievement Award at the ______ SOCAN Awards.
  89. Complete the sentence about Shania Twain with the correct year: Twain returned to performing the following year with an exclusive concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Shania: Still th…
  90. Complete the sentence about The Weeknd with the correct year: In August ______, Tesfaye began anonymously releasing music on YouTube.
  91. Complete the sentence about Justin Bieber with the correct year: After a brief hiatus, he released his seventh and eighth studio albums, Swag and Swag II, in ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Avril Lavigne with the correct year: Avril Ramona Lavigne was born on September 27, ______, in Belleville, Ontario.
  93. Complete the sentence about Avril Lavigne with the correct year: A member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, he married Lucie Dzierzbicki, a French native of Morhange in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Avril Lavigne with the correct year: When Jean-Claude was a child, the family moved to Ontario, and in ______, he married Judith-Rosanne "Judy" Loshaw.
  95. Complete the sentence about Michael Bublé with the correct year: In ______, Bublé's self-titled third album reached the top ten in Canada and the United Kingdom.
  96. Complete the sentence about Oscar Peterson with the correct year: In ______, at fourteen years of age, he won the national music competition organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  97. Complete the sentence about Glenn Gould with the correct year: The family's surname was informally changed to Gould around ______ to avoid being mistaken for Jewish, given the prevailing antisemitism…
  98. Complete the sentence about Juno Awards with the correct year: In ______ RPM magazine began polling its readers to determine which artists and groups they considered the best in Canada.
  99. Complete the sentence about Juno Awards with the correct year: The first ceremony was the Gold Leaf Awards which took place on 23 February ______ in Toronto, Ontario.
  100. Complete the sentence about Juno Awards with the correct year: From ______, the award winners were not made public until the Juno ceremonies.

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