Famous Canadians
This Indigenous runner is considered Canada's first professional athlete.
Who is Thomas Longboat?
This year shows Canada with only four original provinces.
What is 1867?
Most Canadians lived in this type of area in 1912.
What is rural/farming communities?
This sport became popular in Canada in the early 1900s.
What is basketball?
Women could vote federally in Canada by 1912.
What is false - they couldn't vote federally until 1918.
This activist fought for women's right to vote in Canada.
Who is Nellie McClung?
By this year, Canada stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is 1912?
A common job for new immigrants in Western Canada.
What is farming, railway work, mining, lumbering?
This inventor worked on wireless communication.
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
Thomas Longboat acccepted praise but stayed silent about injustice.
What is false - he spoke out about Indigenous rights.
He helped found the League of Indians of Canada in 1918.
Who is Frederick Ogilvie Loft?
Western expansion happened mainly because of this.
What is railway development/settlement/immigration?
One way people traveled long distances in 1912.
What is train, ship, horse, walking?
This technology made Canada feel more connected.
What is radio/telegraph/railway?
Residential schools were meant to preserve Indigenous cultures.
This skill helped Longboat during World War I.
What is endurance/running/messenger work?
This province joined Canada in 1870.
What is Manitoba?
A major challenge faced by Indigenous peoples during this time.
What is residential schools/loss of land/discrimination?
Why was radio important for Canada's future?
What is communication over long distances, unity, emergencies?
Immigration increased between 1890 and 1914.
What is true.
This Indigenous community is connected to both Longboat and Loft.
What is the Six Nations of the Grand River?
What makes a map recognizable as a map of Canada?
What are borders, shape, provinces, surrounding oceans and locations.
One way life in 1912 was different from today.
What is no cars, phones, internet, slower travel, fewer rights...?
How did technology help Canada grow as a country?
What is improved travel, communication, settlement, economy?
Canada was fully independent from Britain in 1912.
What is false - Canada was still part of the British Empire in 1912.