Canada Practice Test 3

Correct! The Sioux were Nomads following bison herds and move from place to place.

Correct! When Europeans explored Canada they found all regions occupied by native peoples they called Indians.

Correct! Large numbers of Aboriginals died because of European diseases to which they lacked immunity.

Correct! "In 1759, the British defeated the French in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec City — marking the end of France’s empire in America. The commander of the British army, Brigadier James Wolfe died leading his troops in battle."

Correct! The Vikings from Iceland who colonized Greenland 1,000 years ago also reached Labrador and the island of Newfoundland

Correct! European exploration began in earnest in 1497 with the expedition of John Cabot, who was the first to draw a map of Canada’s East Coast

Correct! The Vikings from Iceland who colonized Greenland 1,000 years ago also reached Labrador and the island of Newfoundland.

Correct! European exploration began in earnest in 1497 with the expedition of John Cabot, who was the first to draw a map of Canada’s East Coast

Correct! The Vikings from Iceland who colonized Greenland 1,000 years ago also reached Labrador and the island of Newfoundland. The remains of their settlement, L’Anse aux Meadows, are a World Heritage site.

Correct! When Europeans explored Canada they found all regions occupied by native people they called Indians because the first explorers thought they had reached the East indies.

Correct! Between 1534 and 1542, Jacques Cartier made three voyages across the Atlantic, claiming the land for King Francis I of France

Correct! By the 1550s, the name of Canada began appearing on maps

Correct! Between 1534 and 1542, Jacques Cartier made three voyages across the Atlantic, claiming the land for King Francis I of France. Cartier heard two captured guides speak the Iroquoian word Kanata, meaning “village.”

Correct! The French and Aboriginal people collaborated in the vast fur-trade economy

Correct! The French and the Iroquois made peace in 1701

Correct! Outstanding leaders like Jean Talon, Bishop Laval, and Count Frontenac built a French Empire in North America that reached from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

Correct! "In 1604, the first European settlement north of Florida was established by French explorers Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain.

Correct! In 1608 Champlain built a fortress at what is now Québec City

Correct! "In 1604, the first European settlement north of Florida was established by French explorers Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain."

Correct! In 1670, King Charles II of England granted the Hudson’s Bay Company exclusive trading rights.

Correct! In 1670, King Charles II of England granted the Hudson’s Bay Company exclusive trading rights over the watershed draining into Hudson Bay. For the next 100 years the Company competed with Montreal-based traders.

Correct! In 1759, the British defeated the French in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec City.

Correct! After the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec City, Great Britain renamed the colony the “Province of Quebec."

Correct! The French-speaking Catholic people, known as habitants or Canadiens, strove to preserve their way of life in the English-speaking, Protestant-ruled British Empire.

Correct! The Quebec Act restored French civil law while maintaining British criminal law

Correct! To better govern the French Roman Catholic majority, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act of 1774.

Correct! "The Quebec Act accommodated the principles of British institutions to the reality of the province. It allowed religious freedom for Catholics and permitted them to hold public office, a practice not then allowed in Britain.

Correct! Joseph Brant led thousands of Loyalist Mohawk-Indians into Canada

Correct! More than 40,000 people loyal to the Crown, called “Loyalists,” fled the oppression of the American Revolution to settle in Nova Scotia and Quebec

Correct! "In turn, in 1792, some black Nova Scotians, who were given poor land, moved on to establish Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa)."

Correct! "In 1776, the 13 British colonies to the south of Quebec declared independence and formed the United States."

Correct! The name "Canada" became official in 1791."

Correct! The Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the Province of Quebec into Upper Canada (later Ontario) and Lower Canada ( later Quebec )

Correct! The Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the Province of Quebec into Upper Canada (later Ontario), which was mainly Loyalist, Protestant and English-speaking, and Lower Canada (later Quebec), heavily Catholic and French-speaking.

Correct! The first representative assembly was elected in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1758.

Correct! "The Atlantic colonies and the upper and lower Canada were known collectively as British North America.

Correct! The Constitutional act was passed by the British parliament in 1791

Correct! In 1807, the British Parliament prohibited the buying and selling of slaves

Correct! In 1807, the British Parliament prohibited the buying and selling of slaves, and in 1833 abolished slavery throughout the Empire.

Correct! "Lieutenant-Colonel John Graves Simcoe was Upper Canada’s first Lieutenant Governor and founder of the City of York (now Toronto).

Correct! Thousands of slaves escaped from the United States, followed “the North Star” and settled in Canada via the Underground Railroad, a Christian anti-slavery network.

Correct! In 1793, Upper Canada, led by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, a Loyalist military officer, became the first province in the Empire to move toward abolition

Correct! The Montreal Stock Exchange opened in 1832.

Correct! Victoria Day : Monday preceding May 25 (Sovereign’s birthday)

Correct! For centuries Canada’s economy was based mainly on farming and on exporting natural resources

Correct! The first companies in Canada were formed during the French and British regimes and competed for the fur trade.

Correct! The Hudson’s Bay Company, with French, British and Aboriginal employees, came to dominate the trade in the northwest from Fort Garry (Winnipeg) and Fort Edmonton to Fort Langley (near Vancouver) and Fort Victoria—trading posts that later became cities.

Correct! The first financial institutions opened in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

Correct! Corporal Filip Konowal, born in Ukraine, showed exceptional courage in the Battle of Hill 70 in 1917, and became the first member of the Canadian Corps not born in the British Empire to be awarded the V.C.

Correct! The first companies in Canada were formed during the French and British regimes and competed for the fur trade

Correct! After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), the Royal Navy ruled the waves. The British Empire, which included Canada, fought to resist Bonaparte’s bid to dominate Europe. This led to American resentment at British interference with their shipping. Believing it would be easy to conquer Canada, the United States launched an invasion in June 1812.

Correct! In 1813, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry and 460 soldiers, mostly French Canadians, turned back 4,000 American invaders at Châteauguay, south of Montreal

Correct! By 1814, the American attempt to conquer Canada had failed. The British paid for a costly Canadian Defense system.

Correct! The present-day Canada-U.S.A. border is partly an outcome of the War of 1812, which ensured that Canada would remain independent of the United States.

Correct! In 1813 the Americans burned the Government House and the Parliament Buildings in York (now Toronto).

Correct! Armed rebellions occurred in 1837–38 in the area outside Montreal and in Toronto

Correct! Lord Durham said that the quickest way for the Canadians to achieve progress was to assimilate into English-speaking Protestant culture.

Correct! Lord Durham, an English reformer sent to report on the rebellions, recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be merged and given responsible government powers.

Correct! La Fontaine, a champion of democracy and French language rights, became the first leader of a responsible government in the Canada.

Correct! The first British North American colony to attain full responsible government was Nova Scotia in 1847–48

Correct! "In 1840, Upper and Lower Canada were united as the Province of Canada."

Correct! Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine, a champion of French language rights, became the first head of a responsible government (similar to a prime minister) in Canada in 1849.

Correct! Nunavut in 1999 became part of Dominion of Canada

Correct! The British Parliament passed the British North America Act in 1867

Correct! The Dominion of Canada was officially born on July 1, 1867

Correct! The old Province of Canada was split into two new provinces: Ontario and Quebec, which, together with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, formed the new country called the Dominion of Canada.

Correct! The old Province of Canada was split into two new provinces: Ontario and Quebec.

Correct! From 1864 to 1867, representatives of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Province of Canada, with British support, worked together to establish a new country. These men are known as the Fathers of Confederation.

Correct! Until 1982, July 1 was celebrated as “Dominion Day” to commemorate the day that Canada became a self-governing Dominion. Today it is officially known as Canada Day

Correct! Fathers of Confederation created two levels of government: federal and provincial

Correct! Sir Leonard Tilley, an elected official and Father of Confederation from New Brunswick, suggested the term Dominion of Canada in 1864

Correct! "Sir Leonard Tilley was inspired by Psalm 72 in the Bible which refers to “dominion from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth.”

Correct! In 1867, Sir John Alexander Macdonald, a Father of Confederation, became Canada’s first Prime Minister. Born in Scotland on January 11, 1815.

Correct! Parliament has recognized January 11 as Sir John A. Macdonald Day

Correct! Sir John Alexander Macdonald’s portrait is present on 10$ bill

Correct! "Cartier led Quebec into Confederation and helped negotiate the entry of the Northwest Territories, Manitoba and British Columbia into Canada

Correct! Correct. In 1867, Sir John Alexander Macdonald, a Father of Confederation, became Canada’s first Prime Minister.

Correct! After the first Métis uprising, Prime Minister Macdonald established the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1873

Correct! Riel is seen by many as a hero, a defender of Métis rights and the father of Manitoba.

Correct! Canada took over the vast northwest region from the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1869.

Correct! "Today, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP or “the Mounties”) are the national police force and one of Canada’s best-known symbols.

Correct! Canada took over the vast northwest region from the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1869, the 12,000 Métis of the Red River were not consulted.

Correct! The Railway project was financed by British and American investors and built by both European and Chinese labor.

Correct! The Government of Canada apologized in 2006 for this discriminatory policy

Correct! British Columbia joined Canada in 1871 after Ottawa promised to build a railway to the West Coast

Correct! Canada’s economy grew and became more industrialized during the economic boom of the 1890s and early 1900s. One million British and one million Americans immigrated to Canada at this time

Correct! "Sir Wilfrid Laurier became the first French Canadian prime minister since Confederation and encouraged immigration to the West. His portrait is on the $5 bill

Correct! Sir Wilfrid Laurier became the first French Canadian prime minister since Confederation and encouraged immigration to the West.

Correct! Sir Wilfrid Laurier became the first French Canadian prime minister since Confederation and encouraged immigration to the West. His portrait is on the $5 bill.

Correct! Sir Wilfrid Laurier became the first French Canadian prime minister since Confederation and encouraged immigration to the West.

Correct! The railway made it possible for immigrants, including 170,000 Ukrainians, 115,000 Poles and tens of thousands from Germany, France, Norway and Sweden to settle in the West before 1914 and develop a thriving agricultural sector

Correct! Canada’s economy grew and became more industrialized during the economic boom of the 1890s and early 1900s. One million British and one million Americans immigrated to Canada at this time

Correct! "April 9 is celebrated as Vimy Day"

Correct! More than 600,000 people served in the First World War out of Eight Million.

Correct! "60,000 soldiers lost their lives in the First World War."

Correct! From 1914 to 1920, Ottawa interned over 8,000 former Austro-Hungarian subjects, mainly Ukrainian men, as “enemy aliens” in 24 labor camps across Canada.

Correct! The Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in April 1917, with 10,000 killed or wounded, securing the Canadians’ reputation.

Correct! "Over 7,000 volunteered to fight in the South African War (1899–1902), popularly known as the Boer War.

Correct! In 1921 Agnes Macphail, a farmer and teacher, became the first woman MP. Due to the work of Thérèse Casgrain and others, Quebec granted women the vote in 1940

Correct! More than 3,000 nurses, nicknamed “Bluebirds,” served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, 2,500 of them overseas."

Correct! The effort by women to achieve the right to vote is known as the women’s suffrage movement. Its founder in Canada was Dr. Emily Stowe, the first Canadian woman to practice medicine in Canada.

Correct! The effort by women to achieve the right to vote is known as the women’s suffrage movement. Its founder in Canada was Dr. Emily Stowe, the first Canadian woman to practice medicine in Canada.

Correct! The federal government of Sir Robert Borden gave right to vote in federal elections to the women who were nurses at the battlefront

Correct! "In 1918, most Canadian female citizens aged 21 and over were granted the right to vote in federal elections.

Correct! In 1921 Agnes Macphail, a farmer and teacher, became the first woman MP

Correct! The effort by women to achieve the right to vote is known as the women’s suffrage movement

Correct! The stock market crash of 1929, however, led to the Great Depression or the “Dirty Thirties.” Unemployment reached 27% in 1933 and many businesses were wiped out. Farmers in Western Canada were hit hardest by low grain prices and a terrible drought.

Correct! Colonel John McCrae composed the poem “In Flanders Fields” in 1915; it is often recited on Remembrance Day

Correct! The British Empire evolved into a free association of states known as the British Commonwealth of Nations. Canada remains a leading member of the Commonwealth to this day, together with other successor states of the Empire such as India, Australia, New Zealand, and several African and Caribbean countries.

Correct! Canadians remember the sacrifices of our veterans and brave fallen in all wars up to the present day in which Canadians took part, each year on November 11: Remembrance Day

Correct! The stock market crash of 1929, however, led to the Great Depression or the “Dirty Thirties.” Unemployment reached 27% in 1933 and many businesses were wiped out. Farmers in Western Canada were hit hardest by low grain prices and a terrible drought.

Correct! Canadians remember the sacrifices of our veterans and brave fallen in all wars up to the present day in which Canadians took part, each year on November 11: Remembrance Day

Correct! The Bank of Canada, a central bank to manage the money supply and bring stability to the financial system, was created in 1934.

Correct! Canadians remember the sacrifices of our veterans and brave fallen in all wars up to the present day in which Canadians took part, each year on November 11: Remembrance Day

Correct! Approximately one in ten Allied soldiers on D-Day was Canadian.

Correct! The epic invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, 15,000 Canadian troops stormed and captured Juno Beach from the German Army, a great national achievement shown in this painting by Orville Fisher

Correct! Canadians took part in the liberation of Italy in 1943–44.

Correct! In the epic invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, 15,000 Canadian troops stormed and captured Juno Beach from the Germans

Correct! More than one million Canadians and Newfoundlanders (Newfoundland was a separate British entity) served in the Second World War, out of a population of 11.5 million. This was a high proportion and of these, 44,000 were killed.

Correct! At the end of WWII, Canada had the 3rd largest navy and the 4th largest air force.

Correct! The Second World War began in 1939 when Adolf Hitler, the National Socialist (Nazi) dictator of Germany, invaded Poland and conquered much of Europe

Correct! "The Canadians fought bravely and suffered losses in the unsuccessful defense of Hong Kong (1941) from attack by Imperial Japan.

Correct! More than one million Canadians and Newfoundlanders (Newfoundland was a separate British entity) served in the Second World War.

Correct! The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) saw its finest hour in the Battle of the Atlantic, protecting convoys of merchant ships against German submarines.

Correct! "In 1916, Manitoba became the first province to grant voting rights to women."