Canadian Museums and Galleries
He is the Orillia-based author who is the namesake for both a museum and a memorial medal for humor award.
Who is Stephen Leacock?
What people historically first occupied Simcoe County near Lake Huron?
Who are the Wendat?
Frederick Banting and Charles Best were the first to isolate this life-changing medicine.
What is insulin?
Canada contains the most of this water feature in the world.
What are lakes?
The central headquarters of this major organization is located in Orillia and houses their own museum.
What is the Ontario Provincial Police?
Our county was primarily settled by immigrants from what three countries in the 1800s?
What are England, Ireland and Scotland?
Best known for bringing law and order to the Yukon, this historical figure was born and raised in Medonte and first served in the Simcoe Foresters.
Who is Sir Sam Steele?
In 1999, this became the most recent province or territory on the map of Canada.
What is Nunavut?
This was the war that the HMS Nancy, now housed at Nancy Island Historic site, was involved in.
What is the War of 1812?
The namesake for our county, this man was the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791- 1796.
Who is John Graves Simcoe?
This famous figureskating Olympian from Penetaguishene now has an arena named after him in Orillia.
Who is Brian Orser?
This city was the first to host the Staney Cup, in 1894, and their hockey team boasts the most Stanley Cups ever won.
What is Montreal?
In Canada's largest art theft to date, this famous Canadian institution had over $2 million worth of paintings and jewelry stolen from it in 1972.
What is the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts?
This city boasts the historic site of the Mnjikaning fishing weirs.
What is Orillia?
He was the first Canadian in space and holds a tie with Chris Hadfield for Canadians who have been to space the most.
Who is Marc Garneau?
This was the first national park ever established in Canada.
What is Banff National Park?
This is the year the Simcoe County Women's Institute established the Simcoe County Museum, not to be confused with the date we moved to our current site.
What is 1930?
In 1822, these Simcoe County townships were named after the three beloved pet Cavalier King Charles Spaniels belonging to Lady Sarah Maitland.
What is Tiny, Tay and Flos?
This legendary figure was given Canadian citizenship in 2008 but did not receive a passport until 2013.
Who is Santa Claus?
This mountain in the Yukon is Canada's highest peak, and North America's second-highest.
What is Mount Logan?