Historical Canadian Events
Canadian Inventions/Discoveries
TV Shows
Canadian Landmarks + Places
Fun Facts
Movies
100
This Alberta city briefly turned into a giant bathtub, inspiring neighbors to canoe to Tim Hortons and back. (Include the year)
The 2013 Calgary Flood
100
Discovered by two Canadians, this life-saving treatment for diabetes gave the world hope… and also gave Canada bragging rights forever.
What is insulin?
100
This long-running Alberta drama about horses is the reason half of Canada secretly thinks they can ride one.
What is Heartland?
100
Named after a geologist who discovered Alberta’s first dinosaur fossils in 1884, this museum attracts over 400,000 visitors a year.
What is the Royal Tyrrell Museum?
100
Canada's trees produce 85% of the world’s supply of this breakfast topping.
What is maple syrup?
100
This red-haired orphan taught generations that imagination can survive anything — even Prince Edward Island winters.
What is Anne of Green Gables?
200
This leafy Canadian export became legal nationwide — and suddenly everyone got really passionate about Doritos and staring at clouds, but Hannah's life didn't change. (include the year)
What is marijuana in 2018?
200
This wildly popular sport was invented by a Canadian gym teacher who just wanted kids to stop throwing things at each other’s heads.
What is basketball? (Invented by James Naismith)
200
This mockumentary about Nova Scotian neighbors proved that chaos, rum, and shopping carts are an art form.
What is Trailer Park Boys?
200
Tourists flock here to ride boats into clouds of mist, wear plastic ponchos like high fashion, and yell “Wow!” while pretending they’re not soaked.
What are Niagara Falls?
200
In the 1600s, France and Britain literally fought a war over this adorable animal.
What is the beaver?
200
The 1997 historical fiction classic, one of the highest-grossing movies ever, was directed by this Canadian filmmaker.
Who is James Cameron?
300
This 2010 event had Canadians screaming, crying, and apologizing less than usual after we won hockey gold on home ice.
What are the Vancouver Winter Olympics?
300
This humble packaging invention kept fragile breakfast treasures from smashing and gave the world a whole new way to play “which one’s cracked?” at the grocery store.
What are egg cartons?
300
This show starred Michael Cera as a socially awkward teen whose life was a little bit more bluth than usual.
What is Arrested Development?
300
In 1999, Canada created this new territory, finally giving the Arctic a name besides “that giant snowy bit.”
What is Nunavut?
300
Canada invented this game where grown adults slide rocks on ice while yelling “HARD!”
What is curling?
300
This actress from London, Ontario, got famous by cutting holes in her shirt and getting hit by a school bus.
Who is Rachel McAdams?
400
This 1995 event saw a province almost vote to leave Canada — and the rest of the country almost send a “u up?” text to convince them to stay.
What is the Quebec Referendum?
400
Invented in Canada, these gave the world more power — literally — and made TV remotes last way too long.
What are alkaline batteries?
400
Set in a fictional Ontario town, this show features fast-talking hicks, hockey players, and enough slang to confuse outsiders for days.
What is Letterkenny?
400
Churchill Manitoba is home to this type of jail, where the “inmates” are just waiting for picnic season like it’s winter break.
What is a polar bear jail?
400
Canadians have been doing this since 1939 at a dance studio in Winnipeg — making it the longest-running of its kind in North America
What is ballet?
400
The mockumentary became a cult hit for its portrayal of Alberta headbangers and was filmed primarily here in Alberta.
What is FUBAR?
500
This gold rush in the late 1890s had thousands of people sprinting to the Yukon, only to discover that snow is hard to mine.
What is the Klondike Gold Rush?
500
These tiny yellow flowers, which you are likely to see on nearly every country drive in the summer, are actually one of Canada’s biggest nectar sources for honeybees.
What is canola?
500
This small-town Saskatchewan comedy showed us that sarcasm and perogies are the glue of rural Canada.
What is Corner Gas?
500
This tourist destination is a perfect depiction of the phrase "from the highest of the highs, to the lowest of the lows". That is, if you are referring to the tides.
What is the Bay of Fundy?
500
This winter invention lets you sit down while going way too fast and climb mountains you have no business climbing.
What is the snowmobile?
500
This Vancouver-born actor is best known for avenging his dog and driving way too fast with Sandra Bullock.
Who is Keanu Reeves?
600
In this year, Canadians (and some very determined geese) helped push back an American invasion.
What is 1812 (the War of 1812)?
600
This Canadian invention keeps astronauts alive and bagged milk cold. (Not at the same time… probably.)
What is the space suit?
600
This character’s mysterious accent sounds like it’s been to 12 countries, 4 operas, and at least one wine tasting — all in the same afternoon.
Who is Moira Rose?
600
South of Calgary sits this giant quartzite boulder—carried hundreds of km by glaciers—which Indigenous Blackfoot peoples call “Big Rock.”
What is the Okotoks Glacier Erratic?
600
Canada has the world's largest number of this type of landform.
What are islands?
600
This 2010 Canadian film about a Montreal barber earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film for director Denis Villeneuve.
What is Incendies?