Foundations of Canada
Founding Peoples
Dominion to Canadian Nation
Toward an Independent Nation
Hodge Podge
100
This was a native group did little hunting and fishing provide, but they grew crops for most of their food.
Who were the Iroquoians?
100
This was Canada’s first Prime Minister.
Who was Sir John A. MacDonald?
100
This was the name of the first tank ever built.
What is Little Willie?
100
This was the first province to give the right to vote to women.
What is Manitoba?
100
He was the Prime Minister of Canada during WWII
Who was William Lyon Mackenzie King?
200
This was a feudal system of land distribution used by the French in Canada.
What is the Seigneurial system?
200
These two provinces pulled out of Confederation in the end and did not join Canada until many years later.
What are Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland?
200
He was the leader of the terrorist organisation named the Black Hand, who planned the assassination that started World War I.
Who was Dragutin Dimitrijević?
200
This name was given to the last day of the Winnipeg General Strike when the Royal North-West Mounted Police attacked a gathering of strike supporters, killing two.
What is Bloody Saturday?
200
This was an epidemic in the last months of World War I that killed up to 40 million people around the world.
What was the Spanish Flu?
300
He headed the English expedition in 1497 that is the first known voyage to mainland North America.
Who was John Cabot?
300
This was the document that recommended the uniting of the two Canadas into a single colony and the introduction of responsible government.
What is the Durham Report?
300
This was why English-Canadians were opposed to the formation of a Canadian Navy.
What is it would be too small to help Britain?
300
This was legislation passed by President Roosevelt to assist the cash-strapped British in continuing to fight in the early years of World War II.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
300
When soldiers spent days and weeks standing in water and mud, they often developed this condition.
What is Trench Foot?
400
This group of settlers were deported by New England forces during the Seven Years War and mostly settled in the state of Louisiana.
Who were the Acadians?
400
In the 1840s, a potato famine drove this ethnic group to flee to Canada in the hundreds of thousands.
Who were the Irish?
400
These were required by the British and Germans to protect colonies and capture new territories
What are large navies?
400
This act was passed in 1931 making Canada and the other Dominions equal in status with Britain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
What is the Statute of Westminster?
400
This was a Swedish diplomat who, with his colleagues, saved as many as 100,000 Hungarian Jews at the cost of his own life
Who was Raoul Wallenberg?
500
This American city was captured by Major-General Isaac Brock after first American attempt to invade Canada in the War of 1812 was stopped by him.
What is Detroit?
500
These were the primary causes of the Rebellions of Upper and Lower Canada in 1838 and 1834.
What were the Family Compact and the The Château Clique?
500
This offered an alliance with Mexico against the USA, because the Germans were afraid that the USA would join the Entente due to their unrestricted submarine warfare
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
500
This was the most important contribution Canada made during World War II.
What is The Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic?
500
These two new weapons of World War I caused the highest number of casualties as soldiers attempted to cross No Man's Land.
What are the machine gun and barbed wire?