Category 1: Language & Identity
Clue: A person whose first language is English.
Answer: What is Anglophone?
Clue: The basic laws that explain how a country is run.
Answer: What is a Constitution?
Clue: When colonies joined together to form an independent country; Canada.
Answer: What is Confederation?
Clue: An extra charge placed upon a product during trade.
Answer: What is a Tariff?
Clue: The inability to decide on a course of action due to disagreement among equally powerful leaders.
Answer: What is Political Deadlock?
Clue: A person whose first language is French.
Answer: What is Francophone?
Clue: A central level of government with power over matters affecting the whole country.
Answer: What is the Federal Government?
Clue: The 1867 legislation that created the Dominion of Canada.
Answer: What is the BNA Act?
Clue: A trade agreement allowing resources to cross the U.S.–British North American border without taxes.
Answer: What is the Reciprocity Treaty?
Clue: A system where the number of elected representatives is based on the number of people living in an area.
Answer: What is Representation by Population?
Clue: The French-speaking people of Canada (Canada East).
Answer: What are Canadiens?
Clue: A level of government with power over local and regional matters.
Answer: What is the Provincial Government?
Clue: The first meeting held in 1864 in Prince Edward Island where colonies discussed joining together.
Answer: What is the Charlottetown Conference?
Clue: A regulated economic system that made a country rich from its colonies.
Answer: What is Mercantilism?
Clue: Taking over another territory and adding it to your own.
Answer: What is Annexation?
Clue: The process by which one culture is absorbed into another; a major fear for French-speaking people.
Answer: What is Assimilation?
Clue: A promise or protection under the law.
Answer: What is a Guarantee?
Clue: The second meeting in 1864 where leaders worked out details that became the BNA Act.
Answer: What is the Quebec Conference?
Clue: A time in the 1930s of extreme poverty and unemployment.
Answer: What is the Great Depression?
Clue: To make land or a border safe and certain, often through treaties, police presence, or the building of a railway.
Answer: What is Secure?
Clue: A grand vision held by the Fathers of Confederation for a nation that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Answer: What is “Sea to Sea”?
Clue: The original name for Canada Day (July 1st), marking the BNA Act coming into effect.
Answer: What is Dominion Day?