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Columbia River
Colonization
Cominco
World War I
Residential Schools
100
It is roughly the length of the Columbia River.
What is 2000 kilometers?
100
He "sailed the ocean blue" in 1492 searching for a trade route to India.
Who is Cristoforo Colombo (Christopher Columbus)?
100
Cominco is a mineral smelter in this Kootenay town.
What is Trail?
100
World War I lasted for this many years.
What is four?
100
The last residential school closed in this decade.
What are the 1990s?
200
They are the two states and one province that the Columbia River runs through.
What are Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia?
200
This Powhatan princess helped Captain John Smith and other settlers in the 1600s adapt to the "New World."
Who is Pocahontas?
200
This river flows past the Cominco smelter.
What is the Columbia River?
200
These are two of the four largest Allied powers.
What are England/Britain, France, the United States, and Russia?
200
About this many native children died in residential schools in Canada.
What is "at least 4000"?
300
This event happened at Kettle Falls in 1940 as a memorial to the Colville Indian Band losing their traditional fishing grounds because of the building of the Grand Coulee Dam.
What is the "Ceremony of Tears"?
300
This "company" encouraged young men to travel to "The New World" in the name of "glory, God, and gold."
What is the Virginia Company?
300
It is the name of the local hockey team, a nod to the importance of the Cominco smelter.
Who are the Trail Smoke Eaters?
300
These are two of the four main Central Powers.
What are Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Hungary?
300
This 1876 act dictated how the Canadian government would interact with First Nation bands in Canada.
What is The Indian Act?
400
These are the names of three types of fish found in the Columbia River.
What are salmon (kokanee, sockeye, Chinook), trout (rainbow, brown, steelhead), sturgeon, whitefish, bass (largemouth and smallmouth), perch, burbot, char, walleye, sucker, carp, shad, sculpin, sunfish, pikeminnow?
400
These are two ways that colonization affected Native people.
What are "brought new diseases that killed many," "created conflict/wars with settlers," "competition with settlers for resources," "loss of land," "exposure to new ideas and tools," "new lifestyle?"
400
Cominco is the world's leading producer of this valuable mineral.
What is Zinc?
400
World War I ended on November 11th of this year at 11:00 a.m.
What is 1918?
400
At the peak of residential schools, there were this many operating in Canada.
What are 80?
500
The Columbia River enters the Pacific Ocean near this Oregon city.
What is Astoria?
500
These two countries were the main colonizers of Canada.
What are France and England?
500
In an effort to reduce pollution, black smoke was cooled to produce this material which ended up making Cominco millions of dollars.
What is fertilizer?
500
His assassination was the event that led to the beginning of the First World War.
Who is Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
500
About this many students went through residential schools in Canada.
What are 150 000?