Modern Canada
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- In which year did Canada find oil in Alberta, starting its modern energy industry?
- Which year did Canada start the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans?
- Which level of government provides public education in Canada?
- What kind of group is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
- Which country did the UN operation defend in the Korean War, in which Canada took part?
- What is the name of the period of rapid change in Quebec in the 1960s?
- What does the Official Languages Act of 1969 guarantee?
- What is La Francophonie, which Canada helped to found in 1970?
- In which year did Quebec voters defeat sovereignty a second time in a referendum?
- Quebec did not agree to the 1982 amendment of the Constitution.
- Which group gained the right to vote in federal and provincial elections in 1948?
- Aboriginal people got the right to vote in 1960.
- About 37,000 refugees who escaped Soviet tyranny in 1956 came to Canada from which country?
- What did the Group of Seven, founded in 1920, paint in a new style?
- Which Canadian invented basketball in 1891?
- What was the purpose of Terry Fox’s “Marathon of Hope” in 1980?
- Rick Hansen’s 1985 journey raised money for cancer research.
- Lord Grey, the Governor General, donated the Grey Cup in 1909.
- Which Canadian invented the snowmobile?
- Which Canadian invented the world system of standard time zones?
- Who sent the first wireless voice message in the world?
- The first cardiac pacemaker was invented by Dr. John A. Hopps.
- What is the Canadarm?
- Which company is known for inventing the BlackBerry?
- Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin, a hormone that treats diabetes.