Canada's History

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• 1.About how many black Loyalists, freedmen and slaves, came north seeking a better life?

  • ✓About 3,000
  • About 300
  • About 12,000
  • About 40,000

  Answer: About 3,000

  Why: About 3,000.

• 2.How many Canadians volunteered to fight in the South African (Boer) War?

  • ✓Over 7,000
  • Over 600,000
  • Over 260
  • Over 70,000

  Answer: Over 7,000

  Why: Over 7,000, of whom over 260 died. The war ran from 1899 to 1902.

• 3.What kinds of bonds did Aboriginals and Europeans form in their first 200 years of coexistence?

  • No lasting bonds at all
  • ✓Economic, religious and military bonds
  • Purely commercial bonds
  • Legal and constitutional bonds

  Answer: Economic, religious and military bonds

  Why: Strong economic, religious and military bonds, which laid the foundations of Canada.

• 4.How many British and how many Americans immigrated to Canada during the boom of the 1890s and early 1900s?

  • Half a million each
  • ✓One million each
  • Ten million each
  • 170,000 and 115,000

  Answer: One million each

  Why: One million British and one million Americans.

• 5.Under which prime minister did women first get the right to vote in federal elections?

  • Sir Wilfrid Laurier
  • Sir John A. Macdonald
  • William Lyon Mackenzie King
  • ✓Sir Robert Borden

  Answer: Sir Robert Borden

  Why: Sir Robert Borden, in 1917 — first to nurses at the battle front, then to women related to men in active wartime service.

• 6.What were the Atlantic colonies and the two Canadas known collectively as?

  • The Province of Canada
  • ✓British North America
  • New France
  • The Dominion of Canada

  Answer: British North America

  Why: British North America.

• 7.What happened to Major-General Sir Isaac Brock in the War of 1812?

  • He commanded the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge
  • ✓He captured Detroit but was killed at Queenston Heights
  • He burned the White House in Washington
  • He turned back 4,000 Americans at Châteauguay

  Answer: He captured Detroit but was killed at Queenston Heights

  Why: He captured Detroit in July but was killed defending against an American attack at Queenston Heights — a battle the Americans lost.

• 8.What was John Cabot's background?

  • An English merchant from Bristol
  • A Portuguese explorer in Spanish service
  • ✓An Italian immigrant to England
  • A French navigator from Saint-Malo

  Answer: An Italian immigrant to England

  Why: He was an Italian immigrant to England, and claimed the New Founde Land for England.

• 9.What did John Cabot do in 1497?

  • ✓He drew the first map of Canada's East Coast
  • He established the Hudson's Bay Company
  • He founded Québec City
  • He explored the St. Lawrence River

  Answer: He drew the first map of Canada's East Coast

  Why: He was the first to draw a map of Canada's East Coast, setting foot on Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island and claiming the New Founde Land for England.

• 10.By which decade did the name Canada begin appearing on maps?

  • The 1600s
  • ✓The 1550s
  • The 1490s
  • The 1750s

  Answer: The 1550s

  Why: The 1550s.