1914-1919
This Canadian Prime Minister led the country through most of WWI.
Who is Robert Borden?
This Canadian Prime Minister led the country for most of the 1920s.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
his year Canada declared war on Germany, one week after Britain did.
What is 1939?
This 1949 province joined Canada, becoming the newest member of Confederation.
What is Newfoundland and Labrador?
This Prime Minister was the first woman to lead a major Canadian political party and become Premier of a province.
Who is Kim Campbell?
This 1917 disaster in Canada killed nearly 2,000 people and disrupted the war effort.
What is the Halifax Explosion?
This 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash (Wall Street Crash)?
This Canadian Prime Minister led the country throughout WWII.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
This Canadian peacekeeping organization was founded by Lester B. Pearson in 1956.
What is the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF)?
This city became the first in Canada to legalize recreational cannabis in 2018.
What is Vancouver?
This Canadian-made rifle was notorious for jamming in trench conditions.
What is the Ross Rifle?
This famous Canadian athlete won gold at the 1928 Olympics and became a national hero.
Who is Percy Williams?
This Canadian city was the site of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan headquarters.
What is Ottawa?
This event in 1967 celebrated Canada’s 100th anniversary of Confederation.
What is Expo 67?
This landmark 2015 Supreme Court decision legalized assisted dying under strict conditions.
What is Carter v. Canada?
This 1914 Canadian law gave the federal government sweeping powers during wartime, including censorship and internment.
What is the War Measures Act?
This act passed in 1927 gave women in Canada the right to be appointed to the Senate.
What is the Persons Case?
Over 20,000 of these people were forcibly relocated and interned by the Canadian government during WWII.
Who are Japanese Canadians?
This major Canadian social program was introduced in 1966 to provide hospital and medical insurance.
What is Medicare?
This Canadian astronaut was the first Canadian to command the International Space Station in 2017.
Who is Chris Hadfield?
French Canadians especially opposed this 1917 event related to mandatory service.
What is the Conscription Crisis?
This economic policy, promoted by R.B. Bennett, was Canada’s version of Roosevelt's New Deal.
What is the Canadian New Deal?
Canada supplied a major portion of this critical wartime material used in explosives and ammunition.
What is uranium (or munitions/explosives)?
This was the name of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ first key legal challenge in 1982.
What is the “Big M Drug Mart” case?
This major constitutional event in 1999 created Canada’s newest territory.
What is the creation of Nunavut?