Show:
White House Down
Rebels with Pitchforks
Hey! Wanna be Canadian?
Taking the Railroad from Midnight to Dawn
Living the Life
100
These four groups fought in the War of 1812.
What are Americans, British, First Nations, and Canadians.
100
This farming implement was prevalently used as a weapon by rebels during the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion.
What is a pitchfork?
100
Most immigrants to Upper Canada in the 1820s didn't come from England, but from these two nations.
What are Scotland and Ireland?
100
Born Araminta Ross, this individual helped guide fugitive slaves to freedom in what is now present-day Ontario.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
Distilleries and these related companies were the most industrial establishments in the mid-1830s.
What are breweries?
200
This woman warned British forces of an impending American attack.
Who is Laura Secord?
200
This Scottish-born Canadian politician was the first mayor of Toronto and a leader of the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie?
200
In the 1840s, approximately 500,000 Irish immigrants arrived in Canada as a result of this.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
200
Enslaved Africans followed this on the Underground Railroad to find freedom in Canada.
What is the North Star?
200
He examined the reasons for the Rebellions of 1837 in both Upper and Lower Canada and and wrote a report recommending a political union to reestablish peace in the colonies.
Who is Lord Durham?
300
This Shawnee warrior sided with the British, was against torture, and insisted that prisoners be treated well.
Who is Tecumseh?
300
This is the epithet applied by their opponents to a small closed group of men who exercised most of the political, economic and judicial power in Upper Canada from the 1810s to the 1840s
What is The Family Compact?
300
The name given to a period of high immigration to Canada from 1815 to 1850 involving over 800,000 immigrants.
What is the Great Migration of Canada?
300
The year the Slavery Abolition Act was passed in Canada.
What is 1833?
300
This account of settlement life in 1830s Upper Canada was written by a Susanna Moodie.
What is Roughing it in the Bush?
400
This Major-General led a force of Army regulars and First Nations warriors in the successful capture of Detroit by creating the illusion that he had a much larger force than he actually did.
Who is Isaac Brock?
400
A major evolution in the way that the British North American colonies were run and greatly diminished the governor's powers, this concept was also featured on a Canadian Heritage Moment, when Queen Victoria remarked that it must be “a Canadian idea.”
What is Responsible Government?
400
The term used to refer to the ships that carried impoverished Irish immigrants.
What are coffin ships?
400
The name given to people who helped fugitive slaves move from place to place.
What are conductors?
400
These two fur trading companies merged in 1821.
What are the Hudson Bay Company and the North West Company?
500
This peace treaty, signed on December 24, 1814, ended the War of 1812.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
500
This brewery became part of history when it was used as a meeting house by Mackenzie as he attempted to unite and organize the Reformers in York into a coherent political party.
What is Doel’s Brewery
500
This disease brought to Canada as a result of overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions on ships resulted in an epidemic in 1832.
What is cholera?
500
This author wrote "Underground to Canada," an excellent cross-curricular resource that can be used when teaching this topic.
Who is Barbara Smucker?
500
This bank was founded in 1817 and was the first permanent bank in Canada.
What is the Bank of Montreal?