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100

This city was home to Canada's first Parliament:

Montreal

Toronto

Ottawa

Kingston

Kingston

100

The name “Canada” comes from a Huron-Iroquois word meaning this:

Winter

Maple

Place

Village

Village
100

This symbol, used by the former kings of France, has also been used to represent many francophone communities in Canada

fleur-de-lys

a croissant

a cross

a cigarette

Fleur-de-lys

100

In 1967, ten Torontonians - all with a common Caribbean heritage - founded this popular cultural festival

Nuit Blanche

WestFest

Toronto Culture Days

Caribana

Caribana

100

The Transgender Archives, the world’s largest archive of its kind, is housed at this Canadian university

Dalhousie University

University of Toronto

University of Victoria

McGill University

University of Victoria

200

Banff National Park is located in this mountain range

Rocky Mountains

200

Who are the Métis descended from?

Indigenous peoples and Japanese fur traders

Indigenous peoples and French and Scottish fur traders and settlers

Vikings and the Inuit

Indigenous peoples and Russian fur traders and settlers

Indigenous peoples and French and Scottish fur traders and settlers

200

Maple Leaf on the Canadian flag has this many points

7

5

11

13

11

200

The approximate weight of the world record for the biggest poutine, set in 2019, is this

1,804 kilograms

2,310 kilograms

3,038 kilograms

4,075 kilograms

3,038 kilograms

200

This event led to the establishment of the first Lesbian and Gay Pride Day in Toronto, which led to Toronto’s Pride Week

The imprisonment of Everett George Klippert

The 1981 Bathhouse Raids in Toronto 

The police crackdowns on gay bars in Montreal ahead of the 1976 Olympics

The ban on gays and lesbians in the military

The 1981 Bathhouse Raids in Toronto 

300

Medicine Hat is this

A mountain in B.C.

An American nickname for Canada

A hat worn by doctors

A city in Alberta

A city in Alberta

300

Approximately this many languages were spoken in the land we now call Canada at the time of first contact between Indigenous peoples and Europeans

30-50

100-150

240-275

300-450

300-450

300

Who was Canada’s longest serving Prime Minister?

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Sir John A MacDonald

Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Sir Wilfried Laurier

William Lyon Mackenzie King

300

This festival in Toronto is the largest street food festival in Canada

Taste of Little Italy

Taste of the Danforth

Toronto Ribfest

JerkFest Toronto

Taste of the Danforth

300

Between 1885 and 1923, migrants of this country were required to pay a head tax before being admitted into Canada

Ireland

Mexico

Jamaica

China

China

400

Ontario is home to approximately this many provincial parks

80

120

240

330

330

400

The stone figure on the flag of Nunavut means “in the likeness of a human” – which is pronounced this way in Inuktitut

Otok

Igloo

Nanuk

Inukshuk

Inukshuk

400

She was the first openly gay premier of a province

Kathleen Wynne

400

The Toronto Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Cup in this year

1967

1955

1972

1984

1967

400

Canada become the first country in the world to adopt an official multiculturalism policy in this year:

1945

1962

1971

1995


1971

500

This island is the largest in Canada

Baffin

500

The last federally run residential school in Canada closed in this year

1996

500

This is the flag of this province

Saskatchewan

500

Canada’s largest and longest-running queer theatre company is named this

Buddies in Bad Times

500

The “We Demand” Rallies, the first major protests for gay rights in Canada, happened in 1971 in these two cities

Ottawa and Vancouver

Toronto and Vancouver

Vancouver and Montreal

Montreal and Toronto

Ottawa and Vancouver