These famous military leaders both fell during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
Who are Wolfe and Montcalm?
100
This secret network allowed thousands of fugitive slaves to escape to British North America.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
This British administrator's decision to put a bounty on Mi'kmaw scalps made him on the most controversial figures in Maritime history.
Who is Edward Cornwallis?
100
The British attack on Washington (and their burning of the President's official residence) was at partially in retaliation for the American sacking of this BNA city.
What is York?
100
This group of elite men, like their counterparts in other colonies, dominated the politics of Upper Canada for decades.
What is the Family Compact?
200
This first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada was responsible for the first anti-slavery legislation in British North America.
Who is John Graves Simcoe?
200
These New England settlers were introduced to Nova Scotia in the 1760s to take over Acadian land and shift the population balance of the colony.
Who are the Planters?
200
This indigenous group from Newfoundland was wiped out entirely in 1829.
Who are the Beothuk?
200
During the War of 1812, this wife of a Canadian militia officer is credited with saving the British Army from defeat at the Battle of Beaver Dams.
Who is Laura Secord?
200
This African colony was populated by black settlers from the US and the Caribbean who came to NS after the American Revolution.
What is Sierra Leone?
300
This York-based newspaper man was an outspoken critic of government by the elite and was a leader in the Rebellion of 1837.
Who is William Lyon Mackenzie?
300
This Loyalist settlement was the site of an incredible rise, and an even more incredible fall, after the American Revolution.
What is Shelburne?
300
This group of mixed-blood people are the descendants of Indigenous women and European fur traders.
Who are the Metis?
300
This 1713 treaty included the ceding of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the British.
What is the Treaty of Utrecht?
300
The early settlement of this colony was the result of generations of West Country fishermen spending time there each year.
What is Newfoundland?
400
This Governor of British North America submitted a report to the British government in 1839 which called for the legislative union of Upper and Lower Canada.
Who is Lord Durham?
400
In 1849, a group in Montreal released this plan for British North America's integration into the American Republic.
What is the Annexation Manifesto?
400
This 1763 document sought, in part, to protect indigenous rights in North America, and set aside the huge territory west of the Thirteen Colonies for their sole use.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
400
After the disastrous results of the 1837 Rebellion, William Lyon Mackenzie took refuge on an island in the Niagara River and proclaimed this new state.
What is the Republic of Canada?
400
This system dominated the economics of BNA until the 1840s.
What is mercantilism?
500
This British administrator of Quebec was responsible for several important conciliatory gestures towards French Canadians in the 1760s and 70s. He is also the namesake of a major Canadian university.
Who is Guy Carleton?
500
These possibly ill-named settlers were Americans who were invited to settle in Upper Canada in the late 1780s and 90s.
Who are the 'Late Loyalists'?
500
This Shawnee chief was an important ally during the War of 1812 of Sir Isaac Brock, who called him "the Wellington of the Indians."
Who is Tecumseh?
500
Following the Seven Years War, this legislation guaranteed many of the traditional rights of French Canadians - it also fueled the fires of Revolution in America.
What is the Quebec Act?
500
The Massacre at Seven Oaks was the result of a clash between these two long-standing rival companies.