1. Why did early European explorers call the native peoples they met "Indians"?
They believed they had reached the East Indies It was an Inuit word for "neighbour" It came from the Huron-Wendat word for a visitor It honoured the explorers' patron saint
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Answer: A. They believed they had reached the East Indies
The first explorers thought they had landed in Asia, so they used a name tied to the East Indies.
2. Which people, described as nomadic, followed the bison herds?
The Huron-Wendat The Sioux The Inuit The Iroquois
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Answer: B. The Sioux
The Sioux moved with the bison, while the Huron-Wendat and Iroquois farmed and hunted.
3. Which Great Lakes people were farmers and hunters, like the Iroquois?
The Cree The Dene The Huron-Wendat The Sioux
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Answer: C. The Huron-Wendat
The Cree and Dene of the Northwest lived by hunting and gathering instead.
4. Aboriginal peoples had built up immunity to the diseases that European newcomers brought.
True False
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Answer: B. False
They lacked immunity, and large numbers of them died of European diseases.
5. Vikings from Iceland reached Labrador and which island, leaving a settlement that is now a World Heritage site?
Vancouver Island Baffin Island Prince Edward Island Newfoundland
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Answer: D. Newfoundland
The Viking remains at l'Anse aux Meadows are in Newfoundland.
6. Which explorer drew the earliest map of Canada's Atlantic shore after his 1497 expedition?
John Cabot Jacques Cartier Samuel de Champlain Henry Hudson
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Answer: A. John Cabot
Cabot, an Italian immigrant to England, mapped the Atlantic shore.
7. John Cabot claimed the land he reached in 1497 for France.
True False
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Answer: B. False
Cabot sailed for England and claimed the land for the English.
8. What is the name of the Viking settlement site in Newfoundland that is a World Heritage site?
Port-Royal L'Anse aux Meadows Fort Garry Fort Langley
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Answer: B. L'Anse aux Meadows
The remains of this Viking settlement are protected as a World Heritage site.
9. What did the Iroquoian word kanata, the source of the name Canada, mean?
River Meeting place Village Great land
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Answer: C. Village
Cartier heard two guides use kanata for a village, and the name began to appear on maps.
10. Which king did Jacques Cartier claim the land for?
Louis XIV of France Charles II of England Henry VIII of England Francis I of France
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Answer: D. Francis I of France
Cartier sailed under the French crown, and Francis I was that king.
11. Jacques Cartier made his voyages on behalf of the King of England.
True False
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Answer: B. False
The French crown, under Francis I, was the one he served.
12. Which two French explorers established the first European settlement north of Florida in 1604?
Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain Jacques Cartier and Count Frontenac Jean Talon and Bishop Laval Iberville and Sir Guy Carleton
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Answer: A. Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain
They settled first on St. Croix Island and then at Port-Royal.
13. After leaving St. Croix Island, the 1604 colonists settled at which place in Acadia?
Halifax Port-Royal Louisbourg Fort Garry
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Answer: B. Port-Royal
Acadia is present-day Nova Scotia, where Port-Royal was founded.
14. What did Champlain build in 1608 at the site of present-day Quebec City?
A mission school A trading fair A fortress A canal
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Answer: C. A fortress
The fortress marked the beginning of Quebec City.
15. Champlain allied with the Algonquin, Montagnais and Huron, who were long-time enemies of which confederation?
The Sioux The Cree The Inuit The Iroquois
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Answer: D. The Iroquois
The Iroquois battled the French settlements for about a century.
16. What drove the vast fur-trade economy of New France?
European demand for beaver pelts Demand for cod in Spain Demand for timber in Britain Demand for wheat in the Caribbean
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Answer: A. European demand for beaver pelts
The French and Aboriginal peoples worked together in this trade.
17. French and Iroquois leaders ended their century of fighting with a peace agreement in 1701.
True False
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Answer: A. True
The Iroquois had fought the French settlements for about a hundred years before peace came.
18. Who rejected an English demand in 1690 to hand over Quebec?
Sir Guy Carleton Count Frontenac Marquis de Montcalm Jean Talon
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Answer: B. Count Frontenac
Frontenac replied that his answer would come from his cannons.
19. Which monarch gave the Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly on trade around Hudson Bay in 1670?
King Louis XIV of France King George III King Charles II of England Queen Victoria
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Answer: C. King Charles II of England
The grant covered the watershed that drains into Hudson Bay.
20. What were the skilled canoe-travelling fur traders called?
Habitants and Canadiens Loyalists and Patriots Rangers and fusiliers Voyageurs and coureurs des bois
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Answer: D. Voyageurs and coureurs des bois
They formed strong alliances with First Nations.
21. What was the result of the 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec City?
The British defeated the French, ending France's empire in America The French drove the British out of the St. Lawrence valley American forces captured the city The two sides agreed to share the colony
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Answer: A. The British defeated the French, ending France's empire in America
The battle decided the contest between France and Britain for North America.
22. Both commanders at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham survived the fighting.
True False
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Answer: B. False
Wolfe and Montcalm both died leading their troops.
23. How did the English colonies along the Atlantic coast compare with New France as time passed?
They stayed smaller and poorer They became richer and more populous They matched it in size and wealth They grew more populous but poorer
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Answer: B. They became richer and more populous
The Atlantic colonies dated from the early 1600s.
24. What did Britain rename the colony after the war with France?
New Acadia Lower Canada The Province of Quebec The Dominion of Canada
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Answer: C. The Province of Quebec
Lower Canada came later, in 1791.
25. What were the French-speaking Catholic people of the colony known as?
Loyalists or Patriots Voyageurs or Métis Acadians or Tories Habitants or Canadiens
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Answer: D. Habitants or Canadiens
They lived in a British Empire that was English-speaking and Protestant-ruled.
26. After the war, the French-speaking Catholics of Quebec tried to keep their way of life inside the British Empire.
True False
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Answer: A. True
They wanted to preserve their culture even though the empire was English-speaking and Protestant-ruled.
27. Which 1774 law fitted British institutions to the reality of the French Catholic province?
The Quebec Act The Constitutional Act The British North America Act The Royal Proclamation
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Answer: A. The Quebec Act
The Quebec Act is counted among the constitutional foundations of Canada.
28. What did the Quebec Act allow Catholics to do?
Vote for a provincial assembly Practise their religion freely and hold public office Pay lower taxes than Protestants Skip service in the militia
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Answer: B. Practise their religion freely and hold public office
Catholics could not yet hold public office in Britain.
29. Under the Quebec Act, which legal system was restored for civil matters?
British civil law Aboriginal customary law French civil law American common law
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Answer: C. French civil law
British criminal law stayed in place.
30. Under the Quebec Act, Catholics in Quebec could hold public office even though Britain barred this at the time.
True False
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Answer: A. True
The Act went further than British practice of the day to accommodate the colony's Catholic majority.
31. Why were the people who fled the American Revolution for Nova Scotia and Quebec called Loyalists?
They were loyal to the new United States They were loyal to the French king They were loyal to the Hudson's Bay Company They remained loyal to the Crown
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Answer: D. They remained loyal to the Crown
More than 40,000 of them came north.
32. Which group of Loyalists did Joseph Brant lead into Canada?
Mohawk Cree Huron Inuit
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Answer: A. Mohawk
Brant led thousands of Mohawk Loyalists.
33. About how many black Loyalists came north to Canada?
300 3,000 30,000 130,000
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Answer: B. 3,000
They included freedmen and slaves seeking a better life.
34. In 1792 some black Nova Scotians left to found Freetown, a British colony for freed slaves in West Africa.
True False
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Answer: A. True
Freetown was founded in Sierra Leone by black Nova Scotians who had been given poor land.
35. Which colony created by the Constitutional Act of 1791 was heavily Catholic and French-speaking?
Upper Canada Nova Scotia Lower Canada New Brunswick
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Answer: C. Lower Canada
Upper Canada was mainly Loyalist, Protestant and English-speaking.
36. What did the Constitutional Act of 1791 give the Canadas for the first time?
A governor chosen by voters Control over the Royal Navy Their own monarch Legislative assemblies elected by the people
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Answer: D. Legislative assemblies elected by the people
The Act also made the name Canada official.
37. In 1791 the Province of Quebec was divided into which two colonies?
Upper Canada and Lower Canada Upper Canada and New France Canada East and Canada West Acadia and Lower Quebec
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Answer: A. Upper Canada and Lower Canada
These were later renamed Ontario and Quebec.
38. Which part of the British Empire became the first to move toward abolition, in 1793?
Lower Canada Upper Canada Nova Scotia New Brunswick
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Answer: B. Upper Canada
Its lieutenant governor, John Graves Simcoe, led the effort.
39. The British Parliament abolished slavery throughout the Empire in 1807.
True False
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Answer: B. False
In 1807 Parliament banned the buying and selling of slaves; slavery itself ended across the Empire in 1833.
40. What was the Underground Railroad?
A secret fur-trade route to Hudson Bay A railway line built by the CPR A Christian anti-slavery network that helped slaves escape to Canada A network of Loyalist supply depots
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Answer: C. A Christian anti-slavery network that helped slaves escape to Canada
Escaped slaves followed the North Star to freedom.
41. In the late 1700s, which legislature saw the first campaign against the transatlantic slave trade?
The United States Congress The Assembly of Lower Canada The French National Assembly The British Parliament
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Answer: D. The British Parliament
Campaigners there led the way before the century ended.
42. Which company came to dominate the trade of the northwest, from Fort Garry to Fort Victoria?
The Hudson's Bay Company The Canadian Pacific Railway The Montreal Stock Exchange The Bank of Canada
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Answer: A. The Hudson's Bay Company
Its trading posts later grew into cities.
43. For centuries, what was Canada's economy mainly based on?
Heavy manufacturing and car making Farming and exporting resources such as fur, fish and timber Banking and insurance Tourism and oil
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Answer: B. Farming and exporting resources such as fur, fish and timber
Goods moved by roads, lakes, rivers and canals.
44. Who became the first woman publisher in Canada in 1853, producing an anti-slavery newspaper?
Laura Secord Emily Stowe Mary Ann Shadd Cary Agnes Macphail
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Answer: C. Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Her paper, The Provincial Freeman, also backed black immigration to Canada.
45. Which Shawnee leader fought alongside British soldiers in the War of 1812?
Joseph Brant Louis Riel Gabriel Dumont Chief Tecumseh
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Answer: D. Chief Tecumseh
Tecumseh and Isaac Brock were allies in Canada's defence.
46. Who captured Detroit in July 1812 but was killed at Queenston Heights?
Major-General Sir Isaac Brock Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe Major-General Robert Ross Sir Arthur Currie
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Answer: A. Major-General Sir Isaac Brock
The Americans lost the battle at Queenston Heights.
47. Which commander led a mostly French-Canadian force that turned back a much larger American army at Châteauguay in 1813?
Lieutenant James FitzGibbon Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry Major-General Robert Ross Sir Isaac Brock
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Answer: B. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry
He had only 460 soldiers against 4,000 invaders.
48. In 1814 a British expedition from Nova Scotia burned the White House in Washington, D.C.
True False
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Answer: A. True
It was revenge for the American burning of the Parliament Buildings in York in 1813.
49. What did the War of 1812 help ensure about Canada?
That it would join the American republic That Britain would grant it self-government That it would stay independent of the United States That the border would move to the St. Lawrence
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Answer: C. That it would stay independent of the United States
Part of today's Canada-U.S. border came out of that war.
50. What did Laura Secord do in 1813 that helped win the Battle of Beaver Dams?
Led militia across the Niagara River Captured an American ship on Lake Erie Carried supplies by canoe to Fort Henry Walked a long way to warn a British officer of a planned American attack
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Answer: D. Walked a long way to warn a British officer of a planned American attack
Her journey on foot covered about 30 km.
51. Why did some reformers in the 1830s take up arms?
They felt progress toward full democracy was too slow They wanted to restore French rule They opposed the Quebec Act's religious freedom They wanted to end the fur trade
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Answer: A. They felt progress toward full democracy was too slow
Some even thought Canada should adopt American republican values.
52. The armed rebellions of 1837–38 succeeded because they had wide public support.
True False
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Answer: B. False
Too few people backed the rebels, and British troops with Canadian volunteers put them down.
53. What did Lord Durham recommend after reporting on the rebellions?
Splitting Upper Canada in two Merging Upper and Lower Canada and granting responsible government Joining the colonies to the United States Giving the colonies full independence
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Answer: B. Merging Upper and Lower Canada and granting responsible government
Responsible government means ministers need the backing of a majority of elected representatives.
54. Why did French Canadians object to part of Lord Durham's advice?
He proposed to deport their leaders He wanted to end their elected assembly He urged them to assimilate into English-speaking Protestant culture He proposed to hand Lower Canada to the United States
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Answer: C. He urged them to assimilate into English-speaking Protestant culture
They wanted to keep the distinct identity of French Canada.
55. Which colony was the first in British North America to gain full responsible government, in 1847–48?
New Brunswick Prince Edward Island The Province of Canada Nova Scotia
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Answer: D. Nova Scotia
United Canada followed in 1848–49.
56. Under responsible government, a government that loses a confidence vote in the assembly must resign.
True False
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Answer: A. True
The guide says this is still how the system works today.
57. Who headed the first responsible government in the Canadas, from 1849?
Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine Lord Durham Joseph Howe Lord Elgin
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Answer: A. Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine
He stood up for democracy and for French language rights.
58. Which governor introduced responsible government in United Canada in 1848–49?
Lord Durham Lord Elgin John Graves Simcoe Sir Guy Carleton
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Answer: B. Lord Elgin
He acted with encouragement from London.
59. In 1840 Upper and Lower Canada were joined together as what?
The Dominion of Canada The Province of Quebec The Province of Canada British North America
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Answer: C. The Province of Canada
Confederation later split this province into Ontario and Quebec.
60. Which colonies sent representatives to work out Confederation between 1864 and 1867?
Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and Quebec Manitoba, British Columbia and Ontario Upper Canada, Lower Canada and Newfoundland The Province of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
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Answer: D. The Province of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
Britain supported the effort.
61. Which two levels of government did the Fathers of Confederation create?
Federal and provincial Federal and municipal Imperial and colonial Provincial and municipal
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Answer: A. Federal and provincial
Each province would elect its own legislature.
62. Into which two provinces was the old Province of Canada split at Confederation?
Ontario and Manitoba Ontario and Quebec Quebec and New Brunswick Nova Scotia and Ontario
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Answer: B. Ontario and Quebec
They joined New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to form the Dominion.
63. In 1867, which legislature approved the British North America Act?
The Parliament of the Province of Canada The United States Congress The British Parliament The Nova Scotia legislature
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Answer: C. The British Parliament
The Dominion took legal form that year, on July 1.
64. Until 1982, Canada's national holiday on July 1 was called Dominion Day.
True False
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Answer: A. True
It is now officially known as Canada Day.
65. Which New Brunswick delegate proposed the name Dominion of Canada?
Sir John A. Macdonald Sir George-Étienne Cartier Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché Sir Leonard Tilley
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Answer: D. Sir Leonard Tilley
He took inspiration from a verse in Psalm 72.
66. Which province entered Confederation in 1871?
British Columbia Manitoba Prince Edward Island Alberta
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Answer: A. British Columbia
Prince Edward Island joined in 1873.
67. Which province became part of Canada only in 1949?
Prince Edward Island Newfoundland and Labrador Manitoba Alberta
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Answer: B. Newfoundland and Labrador
It was the last province to join.
68. Who became Canada's first Prime Minister in 1867?
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Sir George-Étienne Cartier Sir John A. Macdonald Sir Robert Borden
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Answer: C. Sir John A. Macdonald
Macdonald was a lawyer from Kingston, Ontario.
69. Which Father of Confederation was the key architect of the union from Quebec?
Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine Sir Wilfrid Laurier Louis Riel Sir George-Étienne Cartier
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Answer: D. Sir George-Étienne Cartier
Cartier was a Montreal railway lawyer and ally of Macdonald.
70. In 1921, which king chose white and red as Canada's national colours?
King George V Queen Victoria King Edward VII King Charles II
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Answer: A. King George V
These are the colours of the national flag today.
71. In which year did Alberta and Saskatchewan join Canada as provinces?
1870 1905 1898 1949
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Answer: B. 1905
Yukon became a territory in 1898.
72. When Canada took over the northwest in 1869, which people of the Red River were left out of the talks?
The Inuit The Loyalists The Métis The Sioux
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Answer: C. The Métis
About 12,000 Métis lived there.
73. Who led the armed uprising that seized Fort Garry?
Sir Sam Steele Donald Smith Sir John A. Macdonald Louis Riel
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Answer: D. Louis Riel
The guide says the uprising put Canada's future in jeopardy.
74. Which new province did Canada create after the 1870 uprising?
Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia
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Answer: A. Manitoba
Riel is seen by many as the father of Manitoba.
75. For what crime was Louis Riel tried and executed after the 1885 rebellion?
Murder High treason Kidnapping Smuggling
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Answer: B. High treason
Quebec strongly opposed the decision.
76. Though voters sent Louis Riel to Parliament, he sat in the House of Commons for a full term.
True False
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Answer: B. False
Riel was elected but never took his seat.
77. Which Prime Minister set up the North West Mounted Police in 1873?
Sir Wilfrid Laurier Sir Robert Borden Sir John A. Macdonald Sir George-Étienne Cartier
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Answer: C. Sir John A. Macdonald
The force was created to keep order in the West.
78. Why did British Columbia join Canada in 1871?
Ottawa promised to pay the colony's debts Britain ordered the colony to join Ottawa promised to take over the fur trade Ottawa pledged a railway link to the Pacific coast
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Answer: D. Ottawa pledged a railway link to the Pacific coast
The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed in 1885.
79. Who drove the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway on November 7, 1885?
Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona) Sir Sam Steele Louis Riel Sir John A. Macdonald
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Answer: A. Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona)
The railway was a symbol of unity.
80. What was the Head Tax that Chinese people faced after the railway was built?
A tax on railway land A race-based fee for entering Canada A fee for a work permit A charge on every Chinese-owned business
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Answer: B. A race-based fee for entering Canada
The Government of Canada apologized for this policy in 2006.
81. Which prime minister, the first of French-Canadian origin since 1867, promoted settlement of the West?
Sir John A. Macdonald Sir Robert Borden Sir Wilfrid Laurier Sir George-Étienne Cartier
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Answer: C. Sir Wilfrid Laurier
He encouraged immigration to the West during the boom years.
82. Which two groups each sent about a million immigrants to Canada in the boom of the 1890s and early 1900s?
Ukrainians and Poles Germans and French Chinese and Japanese British and Americans
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Answer: D. British and Americans
Ukrainians and Poles settled the West too, but in smaller numbers.
83. What made it possible for immigrants to settle in the West and build a thriving agricultural sector?
The railway The Rideau Canal The Hudson's Bay Company The telegraph
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Answer: A. The railway
Settlers arrived before 1914.
84. In which conflict, 1899–1902, did over 7,000 Canadians volunteer to fight?
The War of 1812 The South African War (Boer War) The Crimean War The Red River Resistance
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Answer: B. The South African War (Boer War)
Over 260 Canadians died.
85. What force did Ottawa create in 1914, whose divisions later formed the Canadian Corps?
The North West Mounted Police The Royal Canadian Navy The Canadian Expeditionary Force The Commonwealth Air Force
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Answer: C. The Canadian Expeditionary Force
Britain had just entered the war.
86. Most of the more than 600,000 Canadians who served in the First World War were drafted.
True False
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Answer: B. False
Most of them were volunteers.
87. Which ridge in France did the Canadian Corps capture in April 1917?
Passchendaele Ridge Mount Sorrel Hill 70 Vimy Ridge
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Answer: D. Vimy Ridge
The victory built the Canadians' reputation for valour.
88. Which date is celebrated as Vimy Day?
April 9 November 11 July 1 June 6
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Answer: A. April 9
It marks the 1917 victory at Vimy Ridge.
89. What happened to over 8,000 former Austro-Hungarian subjects, mostly Ukrainian men, from 1914 to 1920?
They were deported to Britain They were interned as enemy aliens in labour camps They were drafted into the Canadian Corps They were given farmland in the West
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Answer: B. They were interned as enemy aliens in labour camps
The guide calls this policy regrettable, noting Britain had advised against it.
90. Who commanded the Canadian Corps in 1918 and is called Canada's greatest soldier?
Sir Isaac Brock Sir Sam Steele General Sir Arthur Currie Sir Robert Borden
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Answer: C. General Sir Arthur Currie
He led the Corps through the last hundred days of the war.
91. Who founded the women's suffrage movement in Canada?
Agnes Macphail Mary Ann Shadd Cary Thérèse Casgrain Dr. Emily Stowe
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Answer: D. Dr. Emily Stowe
She was the first woman doctor to practise in Canada.
92. Which province was the first to grant women the right to vote, in 1916?
Manitoba Quebec Ontario Nova Scotia
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Answer: A. Manitoba
Quebec granted women the vote in 1940.
93. At the time of Confederation, any adult man could vote regardless of race or property.
True False
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Answer: B. False
Voting was limited to property-owning adult white men.
94. Who became the first woman MP in 1921?
Dr. Emily Stowe Agnes Macphail Thérèse Casgrain Laura Secord
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Answer: B. Agnes Macphail
She was a farmer and teacher.
95. In 1917 the federal vote was first given to which women?
Women over 21 Teachers and farmers Nurses serving at the battle front Women who owned property
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Answer: C. Nurses serving at the battle front
Women related to men in wartime service came next.
96. Which poem by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae is often recited on Remembrance Day?
High Flight The Maple Leaf Forever The Charge of the Light Brigade In Flanders Fields
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Answer: D. In Flanders Fields
McCrae was a Canadian medical officer who wrote it in 1915.
97. Which flower do Canadians wear for Remembrance Day on November 11?
The red poppy The white lily The yellow daffodil The red rose
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Answer: A. The red poppy
They also pause in silence at 11 o'clock.
98. What name was given to the free association of states that the Empire became after 1918?
The League of Nations The British Commonwealth of Nations The Allied Powers The Dominion Alliance
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Answer: B. The British Commonwealth of Nations
Canada is still one of its leading members.
99. Which event in 1929 led to the Great Depression?
A severe drought in the West The creation of the Bank of Canada The stock market crash The end of the First World War
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Answer: C. The stock market crash
The decade that followed became known as the Dirty Thirties.
100. Who was hit hardest by the Depression, because of low grain prices and drought?
Fishers in the Atlantic provinces Factory workers in Quebec Bankers in Ontario Farmers in Western Canada
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Answer: D. Farmers in Western Canada
Unemployment reached 27% in 1933.
101. What was created in 1934 to manage the money supply and steady the financial system?
The Bank of Canada The Montreal Stock Exchange The Hudson's Bay Company The Canadian Pacific Railway
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Answer: A. The Bank of Canada
It is a central bank.
102. What share of workers was unemployed at the Depression's worst, in 1933?
7% 27% 17% 47%
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Answer: B. 27%
Many businesses were wiped out.
103. The 1920s, called the Roaring Twenties, were boom times with prosperous businesses and low unemployment.
True False
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Answer: A. True
The crash of 1929 ended the boom.
104. Which country did Hitler's Germany invade in 1939, starting the Second World War?
Belgium France Poland Norway
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Answer: C. Poland
Canada joined its democratic allies in fighting tyranny.
105. About how many Canadians and Newfoundlanders were killed in the Second World War?
4,400 14,000 440,000 44,000
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Answer: D. 44,000
More than one million of them served.
106. Which two operations ended in failure for Canadian forces in 1941 and 1942?
The defence of Hong Kong and the raid on Dieppe Juno Beach and the liberation of the Netherlands The Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic Vimy Ridge and Amiens
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Answer: A. The defence of Hong Kong and the raid on Dieppe
Canadians suffered losses in both.
107. Which program in Canada trained over 130,000 Allied air crew?
The Canadian Expeditionary Force The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan The Merchant Navy Plan The Royal Air Reserve
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Answer: B. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Canada did more for the Allied air war than any other Commonwealth country.
108. In which battle did the Royal Canadian Navy have its finest hour, protecting convoys from submarines?
The Battle of Britain The Battle of Dieppe The Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of Hong Kong
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Answer: C. The Battle of the Atlantic
The Merchant Navy also helped feed and resupply Britain.
109. When the Second World War ended, Canada's navy ranked third in size in the world.
True False
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Answer: A. True
The guide gives this as the navy's rank at the war's end.
110. In 1988 the Government of Canada apologized for which wartime wrong?
Interning Ukrainian men as enemy aliens Charging a Head Tax on Chinese immigrants Sending conscripts overseas against their will Forcibly moving Canadians of Japanese origin and selling their property
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Answer: D. Forcibly moving Canadians of Japanese origin and selling their property
The government also compensated the victims.
111. Which beach did Canadian troops capture on D-Day, June 6, 1944?
Juno Beach Omaha Beach Utah Beach Sword Beach
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Answer: A. Juno Beach
About 15,000 Canadians took part in the assault.
112. About what share of Allied soldiers on D-Day were Canadian?
One in three One in ten One in twenty One in two
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Answer: B. One in ten
The landing was in Normandy, France.
