History 1
The word "kanata" means:
Village/lands
Upper Canada and Lower Canada now largely make up which two present-day provinces?
Quebec and Ontario
Who was the British loyalist who risked her life to warn of a US attack?
Laura Secord
1867
The English seperated the former French colony into what two parts?
Upper and Lower Canada
This treaty was signed at the end of the seven year war.
What is the Treaty of Paris
What disastrous event led 35000 Irish immigrants to Toronto in 1848/9?
Irish Potato Famine
What is the oldest company in Canada?
The Hudson's Bay Company
This first nation group is a mix of early europeans and first nations.
What is Metis?
The Huron Wendat Indians battled along side which country during the war?
The French
Why were France and England so concerned with controlling Canada?
to become the most powerful country in Europe
This was the constitution of the new country named Canada, passed in the British parliament and came into effect July 1, 1867.
British North America Act (BNA)
What happened on the Plains of Abraham in 1759?
English defeated the French and captured Quebec City
What was the name of the people who were forced into mass deportation of French in British east Canada in 1700s?
The Acadians
What was the most common disease that settlers to New France faced?
Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency)
Alternate name for Runner of the woods; men who routinely hunted and trapped in the forest.
Coureurs des bois
True or False, Jacques Cartier mistook the name "Kanta" for "Canada?" Hence how the entire country came to be called Canada.
True
Which English trade company stole business from the French fur trade?
Hudson's Bay Company
This place is where the United States and Great Britain sign the Peace Treaty ending the War of 1812.
Ghent
Which European power established the fur trade in early Canada?
French