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- Why did the first explorers call the native peoples “Indians”?
- What caused many Aboriginal people to die after Europeans arrived?
- The Huron-Wendat were farmers and hunters.
- Which place is a World Heritage site that holds the remains of a Viking settlement?
- What did John Cabot do in 1497?
- English settlement in Canada began soon after John Cabot’s voyage in 1497.
- For which king did Jacques Cartier claim the land?
- Jacques Cartier made only one voyage across the Atlantic.
- Who built a fortress at what is now Québec City in 1608?
- Champlain allied the French colony with the Huron and the Algonquin. Who were their enemies?
- What product from Europe’s demand drove the large fur trade in New France?
- Count Frontenac surrendered Quebec to the English in 1690.
- Which company got exclusive trading rights to the Hudson Bay watershed in 1670?
- What did the British win at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759?
- Both army commanders, Wolfe and Montcalm, were killed in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
- What name did Great Britain give the colony after the war with France?
- Which law of 1774 allowed Catholics to hold public office?
- Which kind of law did the Quebec Act restore?
- Who led thousands of Loyalist Mohawk people into Canada?
- Where did black Nova Scotians go in 1792 to found a new colony for freed slaves?
- Which law of 1791 divided the Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada?
- Most settlers in Upper Canada spoke English and were Protestant.
- Which place led the way in the British Empire by moving toward abolition in 1793?
- In what year did the British Parliament abolish slavery throughout the Empire?
- Which present-day city grew from the Hudson’s Bay Company trading post at Fort Garry?
- John Graves Simcoe founded the City of York, now Toronto.
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary was the first woman publisher in Canada.
- Which First Nations leader helped defend Canada with British soldiers in the War of 1812?
- Who turned back 4,000 American invaders at Châteauguay with 460 soldiers?
- Which building in Washington, D.C. did British forces burn in 1814?
- Why did Laura Secord walk about 30 km in 1813?
- Which Duke chose Bytown (Ottawa) as the end point of the Rideau Canal?
- In 1813, American forces burned the Parliament Buildings in York, now Toronto.
- What did Lord Durham recommend for Upper and Lower Canada?
- The rebels of 1837–38 had enough public support to succeed.
- What was the united colony called in 1840?
- Which colony was the first in British North America to gain full responsible government?
- Who became the first leader of a responsible government in the Canadas?
- Under responsible government, a government that loses a confidence vote in the assembly must resign.
- Which three places worked together from 1864 to 1867 to create a new country?
- Which two levels of government did the Fathers of Confederation create?
- On what date was the Dominion of Canada officially born?
- Which law did the British Parliament pass in 1867 to create the Dominion?
- Where did the phrase “dominion from sea to sea” come from?
- Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada?
- July 1 was called Dominion Day until 1982.
- Who led an armed uprising and seized Fort Garry in 1869–70?
- Why was Riel executed after the second rebellion in 1885?
- In what year did Prime Minister Macdonald establish the North West Mounted Police?
- Which city became the headquarters of the North West Mounted Police?
- Louis Riel won a seat in Parliament but never sat in it.
- Who drove the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway on November 7, 1885?
- What was the Head Tax that Chinese people had to pay?
- Only European workers built the Canadian Pacific Railway.
- Who was the first French-Canadian prime minister since Confederation?
- Which force did Canada form in 1914 when Britain declared war?
- Who commanded the Canadian Corps in 1918 and is called Canada’s greatest soldier?
- What happened on November 11, 1918?
- Who did Canada intern in labour camps from 1914 to 1920 as “enemy aliens”?
- Most of the more than 600,000 Canadians who served in the First World War were volunteers.
- Who founded the women’s suffrage movement in Canada?
- Who became the first woman MP in 1921?
- In what year did Quebec grant women the vote?
- In 1917, which women first received the right to vote in federal elections?
- Who wrote the poem “In Flanders Fields”?
- At the time of Confederation, all adults could vote.
- Manitoba was the first province to give women the right to vote.
- What did the British Empire become after the First World War?
- Which people were hit hardest by low grain prices and drought in the Great Depression?
- What was created in 1934 to manage the money supply and bring stability?
- Which beach did 15,000 Canadian troops capture on D-Day, June 6, 1944?
- Which country did the Canadian Army liberate in 1944–45?
- Whose invasion of Poland in 1939 began the Second World War?
- Where did Canadians fight a failed raid in 1942?
- In which battle did the Royal Canadian Navy have its finest hour?
- In what year did the Government of Canada apologize for the forced relocation of Canadians of Japanese origin?
- On what date did Japan surrender, ending the war in the Pacific?
- The Merchant Navy of Canada carried food, clothing and supplies to Britain.