1500's and earlier
1600's
1700's
1800's
1900's and 2000's
100
He saied the St. Lawrence in 1535
Who is Jacques Cartier
100
He founded Quebec ity in 1608
Who is Samuel Champlain
100
In the late 1780s, this Vancouver Island inlet was the site of tension between the British and the Spanish
What is Nootka Sound
100
By the 1880's the last of this once plentiful resource, upon which rested much of the economic and social culture in the western plains, had disappeared
What is the bison
100
This Canadian thinker coined the phrases "the medium is the message" and "the global village"
Who is Marshall McLuhan
200
in 1497, John Cabot reported seeing a great bounty of this commodity in the North Atlantic waters
What is cod
200
The year of the Acadian Deprotation
What is 1755
200
The tax levied under the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, to restrict Asian Immigration, is commonly called this.
What is the Head Tax
200
Beginning in 1964, African Canadians were moved from this community in Halifax, using city-owned dump trucks.
What is Africville.
300
In 1577, Martin Frobisher returned from his exploration of the polar regions; his return cargo included these specimens who quickly died in Britain
Who are an Inuit man, woman and child
300
In 1670 a royal charter granted what amounts to sovereignty over millions of acres of North America to this corporation
What is The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay
300
The Quebec motto "je me souviens" refers both to the memory of the history of New France, but also lamenting the secession of New France to British rule; this secession is often tied to a battle that occurred at this place. (Hint: Montcalm and Wolfe)
What is The Plains of Abraham (1759)
300
In 1870, this Metis leader instigated the Red River Rebellion, which helped to force the Canadian government to establish the province of Manitoba
Who is Louis Riel
300
Until the 1960's, Inuit people were identified by a government-issued tag affixed around the neck that used this as an identifier.
What is a number.
400
This political and governmental coalition was established before European contact
What is the Iroquois Confedracy
400
Olivier le Jeune, originally from Madagascar, was brought to New France in 1628
Who is the first slave brought to Canada?
400
In 1792, Black Loyalists -- ex-slaves who had fled America during the War of Independence, but who who suffered less than equitable treatment in the British colonies -- left Nova Scotia to found Freetown in what is now this African country
What is Sierra Leone
400
In 1829, Shawnadithit, the last of this First Nations people, died.
Who are the Beothuk
400
Partly as a result of the lobbying by Canadian writer Roy Miki, and the poignant portrayal of events in Joy Kowaga's novel Obasan, in 1988, PM Brian Mulroney offered an official apology for the redress of this action undertaken during the second world war.
What is Japanese internment
500
He was the first European to cross the continent and reach the Pacific in 1793
Who is Alexander Mackenzie
500
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission is continuing its hearings and investigations into these institutions, the last of which closed in 1996.
What are residential schools for first nations peoples.
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