5. Why are the Great Lakes important to Canada?
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Water for agriculture
Fishing
Fresh water and waterways
Waterways.
6. What is the name of the Canadian who created worldwide system of standard time zones?
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Sir Sandford Fleming
Reginald Fessenden
Matthew Evans
Henry Woodward
7. What do you mark on a federal election ballot?
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The candidate's name
The party's name
An X
The number for the candidate
8. What does Confederation mean?
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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.
9. Give an example of how you can participate in Community?
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Mind your own business. Live and Let Live
Keep your property tidy
Have a party
Join a community group
10. Why is the British North America Act important in Canadian history?
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It was agreed to by the First Nations and Inuit.
It made Confederation legal.
The Aboriginal people signed the act.
It was written by the British government and approved by Queen.
11. Where is the Canadian Shield?
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Ontario
Quebec
Alberta and Ontario and Labrador
Northern Quebec and Ontario and Labrador
12. Which biennial sports event that began in 1970 features such sports as snowshoeing and dog sledding, as well as athletes from northern communities like the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut, Alaska, Greenland and several northern Russian provinces?
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Arctic Cup
Northern Winter Olympics
Arctic Winter Games
Northern Games
13. Which province is known as the Land of 100,000 Lakes?
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Quebec
Manitoba
Alberta
Ontario
14. What was the head Tax?
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A tax based on the number of children per family
A discriminatory race-based entry fee to Canada
A discriminatory kind of property tax
A fee charged for riding the railroad
15. What is the highest military honour a Canadian can receive?
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Victoria Cross
Order of Merit
Badge of Courage
Red Cross
16. "O Canada" was sung for over a century before becoming Canada's national anthem. In which year was the song officially designated by Parliament as our national anthem?
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1980
1958
1920
1899
17. What is Canada's system of governance?
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Police state, parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy
Federal state, Provincial state and constitutional monarchy
Federal state, parliamentary democracy and dictatorship
Federal state, parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy
18. When did the name Canada begin first appearing on maps?
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1880
1920
1550
1760
19. Name the federal political parties represented in the House of Commons and their leaders
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Conservative Party of Canada (Stephen Harper/TBD), Liberal Party of Canada (Justin Trudeau), New Democratic Party (Thomas Mulcair), Bloc Qu?b?cois (Mario Beaulieu)
Conservative Party of Canada (Stephen Harper/TBD), New Democratic Party (Thomas Mulcair), Liberal Party of Canada (Justin Trudeau), Bloc Qu?b?cois (Mario Beaulieu), Green Party (Elizabeth May)
Conservative Party of Canada (Stephen Harper/TBD), Liberal Party of Canada (Justin Trudeau), Green Party (Elizabeth May), Bloc Qu?b?cois (Mario Beaulieu)
Conservative Party of Canada (Stephen Harper/TBD), Liberal Party of Canada (Justin Trudeau), New Democratic Party (Thomas Mulcair), Green Party (Elizabeth May)
20. Where did the name Alberta came from ?
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Comes from the Huron-Iroquois language
Named after a French Leader
Named after a daughter of Queen Victoria
Was proposed when it officially became a province in 1905