Free Simulation of the Official Canadian Citizenship Test - 2026

1. On September 10 of which year did the government of Mackenzie King declare war on Hitler's Germany ten days after the rest of the British Empire declared war?

Select One:
 1939
 1914
 1907
 1922

---

2. 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

---

3. How can a party in power be defeated in Parliament?

Select One:
 If Canadians do not approve of the laws to be passed.
 If a majority of the MPs vote against a major government decision.
 If the Premiers vote against major federal government decisions.
 If Canadians vote against the party in power.

---

4. What is the capital city of Quebec?

Select One:
 Gatineau
 Ottawa
 Montreal
 Quebec City

---

5. What is the capital city of Canada?

Select One:
 Ottawa
 Montreal
 Toronto
 Quebec

---

6. Which region is known as the industrial and manufacturing heartland of Canada?

Select One:
 Prairie provinces
 Central Canada
 Atlantic provinces
 Southern Canada.

---

7. What does crown mean for Canadians?

Select One:
 The Crown contain symbols of England, France, Scotland and Ireland as well as red maple leaves
 The Crown is a symbol of Government, including Parliament, legislatures, courts, police services and the armed forces
 A national motto, A Mari Usque Ad Mare, which in Latin means from sea to sea
 Reflecting the Greco-Roman heritage of Western civilization in which democracy originated

---

8. Which Canadian province is the country's largest producer of Grains and Oilseed?

Select One:
 Ontario
 Quebec
 British Columbia
 Saskatchewan

---

9. What did the government do to make immigration to western Canada much easier?

Select One:
 Completed the Trans Canada Railway.
 Completed the Canadian Pacific Railway.
 Offered land at very low cost.
 Completed the St. Lawrence Waterway.

---

10. 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.

---

11. On June 6, 1944, in a bid to roll back the Nazi regime, 15,000 Canadian soldiers stormed which Normandy beach on a day otherwise known as D-Day?

Select One:
 Juno Beach
 Jupiter Beach
 C?te d'Azur Beach
 Miami Beach

---

12. When did thousands of miners first come to Yukon?

Select One:
 Early 1700s.
 Early 1800s.
 1890s.
 1790s.

---

13. When did the United Empire Loyalists come to Canada?

Select One:
 During 1580s
 In 1600s
 Late 1700s
 Late 1800s

---

14. More than half of Canada's aeronautics and space industry are located in which province?

Select One:
 Ontario
 Alberta
 Manitoba
 Quebec

---

15. What is the capital city of Nova Scotia?

Select One:
 New Glasgow
 Halifax
 Cape Breton
 Amherst

---

16. When was the Canadian Pacific Railway finished?

Select One:
 Late 1600s.
 Late 1700s.
 Late 1800s.
 Early 1700s.

---

17. Name the battle which United States lost near Niagara Falls, in the War of 1812. Hint: Sir Isaac Brock, Governor of Upper Canada and Commander-in-Chief, was killed in the battle.

Select One:
 Plains of Abraham
 Niagara Falls
 Queenston Heights
 Independence

---

18. What does the word "Inuit" mean?

Select One:
 "Eskimo" in Inuktitut language
 "The Arctic Land" in Inuktitut language
 "Home" in English
 "The people" in the Inuktitut language

---

19. Which three oceans line Canada's frontiers?

Select One:
 Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic
 Atlantic, Pacific, Bering
 Atlantic, Hudson's Bay, Pacific
 Pacific, Atlantic, Antarctic

---

20. From whom are the Acadians descended?

Select One:
 French colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime Provinces in 1604.
 Métis and Inuit.
 First Nations who began settling in what are now the Prairie Provinces in 1600s.
 British colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime Provinces in 1604.

---

 Citizenship Test Tips

Previously, the citizenship test contained certain mandatory questions, however ..... Before 2010, citizenship test contained certain mandatory questions which needed to be answered correctly by applicants in order to pass the test.
The three mandatory questions tested applicants on the following:

- the right to vote;
- the right to run for elected office; and
- voting procedures related to elections.

However, because Section 15 of the Citizenship Regulations now specifies that applicants are required to have sufficient knowledge of a broad range of topics, the inclusion of mandatory questions in the citizenship test will no longer be in effect as of October 14, 2010.