Rights
This document protects Canadians’ fundamental rights and freedoms
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Dominion of Canada was officially born on this date.
What is July 1, 1867?
This railway symbolized the unification of Canada.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
Canada is this type of state, where power is divided between federal and provincial governments.
What is a federal state?
This industrious rodent appears on the five-cent coin and is one of Canada's oldest symbols.
What is the beaver?
This 800-year-old English document, signed in 1215, is the origin of Canadians' tradition of ordered liberty
What is Magna Carta?
This explorer made three voyages across the Atlantic between 1534 and 1542, and gave Canada its name
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This province is Canada's only officially bilingual province.
What is New Brunswick?
Parliament has three parts: the Sovereign, the Senate, and this elected chamber.
What is the House of Commons?
The new Canadian flag was raised for the first time in this year.
What is 1965?
the four fundamental freedoms protected under Canadian law.
What are freedom of conscience/religion, thought/expression, peaceful assembly, and association?
In April 1917, the Canadian Corps captured this French ridge, earning a reputation as the "shock troops of the British Empire."
What is Vimy Ridge?
This territory, meaning "our land" in Inuktitut, was established in 1999.
What is Nunavut?
This is the term for a government that holds at least half of the seats in the House of Commons.
What is a majority government?
The Stanley Cup, awarded to the NHL champion, was donated by this Governor General in 1892.
Who is Lord Stanley?
Canadians are legally required to do this when called upon — it makes the justice system work.
What is serving on a jury?
This Métis leader led an armed uprising in 1869 and is seen by many as the father of Manitoba.
Who is Louis Riel?
Lake Superior, located between Ontario and the United States, holds this distinction.
What is being the largest freshwater lake in the world?)
Senators serve until this age, appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister.
What is 75?
This sport was invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891.
What is basketball?
This right, rooted in English common law, allows a person to challenge unlawful detention by the state.
What is habeas corpus?
Canada's first province to move toward abolition of slavery in 1793, led by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe.
What is Upper Canada?
This prairie province holds 40% of Canada's arable land and the world's richest deposits of uranium and potash.
What is Saskatchewan?
Canada has this many electoral districts, also known as ridings or constituencies.
What is 308?
Canada's national motto "A Mari Usque Ad Mare" means this in English.
What is "from sea to sea"?