Road to Confederation
The year Confederation created the Dominion of Canada.
What is 1867?
Canada's first Prime Minister.
Who is John A. Macdonald?
The initials of the railway that linked Canada coast to coast.
What is the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway)?
A fee that ONLY Chinese immigrants had to pay to enter Canada.
What is the Chinese Head Tax?
The 1923 law that banned almost all Chinese immigration.
What is the Exclusion Act?
The year Canada officially apologized for the head tax.
What is 2006?
Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and this province were the first four provinces.
What is New Brunswick?
The 1867 law that created Canada and became its first constitution.
What is the BNA Act (British North America Act)?
British Columbia joined Canada in 1871 because it was promised this.
What is a railway?
Chinese immigrants called North America this, because of the gold rushes.
What is Gold Mountain?
The Exclusion Act was passed on this day, which is also Canada's birthday.
What is July 1?
The Prime Minister who gave the apology.
Who is Stephen Harper?
Irish-American fighters who raided Campobello Island in 1866.
Who are the Fenians?
Federal or provincial? This level of government is in charge of schools.
What is provincial?
The year the CPR was finished.
What is 1885?
The amount of the head tax when it started in 1885.
What is $50?
Because of the Exclusion Act, men in Canada could not bring over these family members.
Who are their wives and children?
A campaign asking the government to apologize and make up for a past wrong.
What is redress?
The trade deal the United States ended in 1866, making it harder to sell lumber and fish there.
What is the Reciprocity Treaty?
Federal or provincial? This level of government is in charge of the military.
What is federal?
Chinese workers were paid this much per day, about half of what others earned.
What is $1?
By 1903 the head tax had jumped to this amount.
What is $500?
Chinese Canadian soldiers fought in this war to prove they were loyal Canadians.
What is the Second World War?
Surviving head tax payers and their spouses each got about this much money.
What is $20,000?
When Canada West and Canada East kept tying and no laws could pass, it was called this.
What is political deadlock?
Members of Parliament (MPs) are elected to this part of Parliament.
What is the House of Commons?
More than this many Chinese workers helped build the CPR.
What is 15,000?
The government kept raising the tax for this reason.
What is to keep Chinese immigrants out of Canada?
The year the Exclusion Act finally ended.
What is 1947?
In total, the government collected about this much from the head tax.
What is $23 million?