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Capital of Ontario
What is Toronto?
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There were human inhabitants in Canada prior to this period of extreme climate
What is the ice age?
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This group populate's Canada's north
Who are the Inuit?
100
This Frenchman "discovered" the St. John river and gave it its current name
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
100
This term describes a point of view that place Europe at the centre
What is Eurocentric?
200
Capital of Newfoundland
What is St. John's?
200
This term refers to the period before written records
What is Time Immemorial?
200
The St. John river was known as this by the Natives
What is Woolastoq?
200
He was the Italian that sailed for England
Who is John Cabot?
200
The "New World" is now considered these two continents
What are North and South America?
300
The biggest of all the Great Lakes
What is Lake Superior?
300
The earliest people to populate Canada likely traversed this body of water via a now long-gone land bridge
What is the Bering Strait?
300
This was a ceremony of sharing and celebration practiced amongst native groups on the West Coast of Canada
What is potlatch?
300
This French explorer sailed up the St. Lawrence river and was the first to describe and map it.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
300
This term applies to a person or group that moves around a lot
What is nomadic? (nomad)
400
The three Canadian territories
What are Yukon, NorthWest Territoris and Nunavut?
400
This was likely that last part of country to become populated
What is the east?
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The Mikmaq and Maliseet are members of this language group
What is Algonquin?
400
Viking explorers settled at this place in Newfoundland around 1000 AD
What is L'anse aux Meadows
400
He was the Prime Minister that described living next to the USA as similar to sleeping with an elephant
Who is Pierre Elliot Trudeau?
500
The capital of Nunavut?
What is Iqaluit?
500
The earliest artefacts of human existence in Canada
What are tools?
500
Now entirely extinct, they were the native peoples of Newfoundland
Who are the Beothuk?
500
These guys fished whales off the coast of Newfoundland
Who were the Basques?
500
This is an old world term for China
What is Cathay?