5. In 1970, there was a major change to the Canadian federal election voting system. What was that change?
Select One:
Women gained the right to vote
Personal identification became a necessity to vote
The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18
Voting rights were extended to all inmates
6. What is the Canada Health Act?
Select One:
Ensures availability of drugs
Ensures availability of Doctors and Nurses
Ensures common elements and a basic standard of coverage
Ensures availability of doctors, Drug and Nurses to Canadians
7. Who was the Group of Seven in modern Canada?
Select One:
Seven Canadian soldiers in World War I.
A group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s
A group of Aboriginal peoples.
Seven athletes who won Olympic gold medals.
8. "For here [in Canada], I want the marble to remain the marble; the granite to remain the granite; the oak to remain the oak; and out of these elements, I would build a nation great among the nations of the world." Which Prime Minister of Canada said this?
Select One:
Sir John A. Macdonald
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Richard B. Bennett
Pierre E. Trudeau
9. What are the provinces of Central Canada?
Select One:
Ontario and Alberta
Ontario and Quebec
Quebec and Alberta
Quebec and Nova Scotia
10. One third of all Canadians live in which province?
Select One:
Quebec
British Columbia
Ontario
Northwest Territories
11. Who are the Métis?
Select One:
The distinct aboriginal people of Atlantic Canada
First Nations people speaking the Michif dialect
People of mixed Inuit/First Nations ancestry most of whom live in Prairies
Distinct People of mixed Aboriginal and European Ancestry
12. What battle can be described as the Royal Canadian Navy's "finest hour"?
Select One:
Battle of the Pacific
Battle of the Caribbean Sea
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of the Arctic
13. Which national project to connect Canadians across the country began in 1871 and was completed six years ahead of schedule in 1885, with the final section constructed in Craigellachie, British Columbia?
Select One:
Canadian Pacific Railway
Trans-Canada Highway
Telephone lines
Trans-Canada Trail
14. Which Canadian imagined the idea for the first telephone at his summer house in Canada?
Select One:
Thomas Edison
Mathew Evans
Henry Woodward
Alexander Graham Bell
15. In Canada, which temperature scale is used to measure temperature?
That should be easy eh!
Select One:
Celsius
Fahrenheit
Both
16. What is the capital city of British Columbia?
Select One:
Vancouver
Victoria
Surrey
British Columbia
17. During the War of 1812 the Americans burned down the Parliament Buildings in York (now Toronto). What did the British and Canadians do in return?
Select One:
They attacked American merchant ships and burned them down
They burned down the White House in Washington D.C.
They expanded their defence system, including Fort York
They captured Niagara Falls and burned down all american posts
18. What are the two official languages of Canada?
Select One:
English and French
English and Chinese
Inuit and French
Canadian English and British English
19. What of the following is Canada's constitution based on
Select One:
Peace, Order and Good government
Multiculturalism. Peace and Order
War, Order and Good government
Mobility Rights, Order and Good government
20. What does Confederation mean?
Select One:
The combination of neighborhood to build a larger community.
The joining of provinces to become a new country.
The United States Confederate army came to settle in Canada.
The merger of colonies to form a province.