Famous Canadians
She was born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, on August 28, 1965.
Who is Shania Twain?
This single use household item was invented by Harry Wasylyk and Larry Hansen in Winnipeg in 1950. The invention was bought by Union Carbide, who sold them under the name Glad.
What is the garbage bag?
If you love french fries topped with gravy and cheese curds, you might enjoy this hardy meal.
What is Poutine?
Which animal is an official symbol of Canada?
What is the Beaver?
Taken together, what are Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta often referred to as?
What are the Prairies?
He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999, retiring at the age of 38. HINT: Nicknamed "the Great One"
Who is Wayne Gretzky?
This handy tool was invented around 1940 in Toronto by Norman Breakey, but he died before being able to patent his invention and profit from it.
What is the paint roller?
You can buy a type of bacon called Canadian bacon in places such as the United States, but in Canada it’s most often called:
What is Back bacon?
What are Canada’s two official national sports?
What are Lacrosse & Ice Hockey ?
What landform sits between British Columbia and Alberta?
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Born in Newmarket, Ontario, this actor and comedian wrote a letter to Carol Burnett of the Carol Burnett Show at the age of ten, pointing out that he was already a master of impressions and should be considered for a role on the show.
Who is Jim Carrey?
This life saving medication was discovered in 1921 by Toronto doctor Frederick Banting and further developed at the University of Toronto by Banting, Charles Best, John Macleod and Bertram Collip.
What is insulin?
First discovered on an Ontario farm in 1811, and commercially available since the 1880s, according to The Canadian Encyclopedia, this apple is often called the national apple of Canada:
What is McIntosh ?
Who was elected as Prime Minister in Canada’s first federal election?
Who is Sir John A. Macdonald
What is Canada’s most populated city?
What is Toronto ?
Canadian actor, author, director, producer, screenwriter, singer and space tourist. He became famous for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek
Who is William Shatner?
This sport was invented by Canadian James Naismith. However, despite being born in Ontario and educated at McGill University, he didn't invent it in Canada. Rather, he invented the sport while working as a physical education instructor at a YMCA in Massachusetts in 1891.
What is Basketball?
According to the company’s website, Tim Hortons is proud to be Canada’s largest restaurant chain. How many cups of coffee do they say they serve every day?
What is More than five million?
Banff National Park is located in which mountain range?
What are the Rocky Mountains?
How many Great Lakes are there?
Five
He pursued a career as a poet and novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s, and did not begin a music career until 1966.
Who is Leonard Cohen
The first of these life-saving devices was built in 1949 by Canadian engineer John Hopps, based on observations made by two Toronto-based cardiac surgeons, Wilfred Bigelow and John Callaghan.
What is the Pacemaker?
According to Agriculture Canada, in 2021, Canadian maple products were exported to 71 countries. The number 1 export destination was the United States. This country was number two on the list:
What is Germany?
What great Canadian engineering feat was completed in 1885 with the hammering of the Last Spike?
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
One third of all Canadians live in which province?
What is Ontario?