All Test Flashcards
Who is General Sir Arthur Currie?
Canada’s greatest soldier in the WWI
Who led an armed uprising and seized Fort Garry?
Louis Riel
Who led Quebec into Confederation?
Sir George-Etienne Cartier
Who is Sir Louis-Hippolytus La Fontaine?
A champion of democracy and French language rights and the first leader of a responsible government in the Canadas
Who was Sir Sam Steele?
A great frontier hero, Mounted Policeman and soldier of the Queen
The commander of the victorious British Army in the Battle of the Plains was?
James Wolfe
Who was the first European to explore the St Lawrence River?
Jacques Cartier
Who became the first woman MP in 1921?
Agnes Macphail
Who was the heroine to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon of a planned American attack in 1813?
Laura Secord
Who recommend that the Upper and Lower Canada be merged and given a responsible government?
Lord Durham
Who was John Buchan?
A popular Governor General of Canada
Who suggested the name “Dominion of Canada” in 1864?
Sir Leonard Tilley
Who was the first leader of a responsible government in the Canada’s in 1849?
Sir Louis-Hippolytus La Fontaine
Who is credited with establishing the first permanent European settlement in what became Canada?
Samuel de Champlain
Who was the first French-Canadian prime minister since Confederation and his portrait is on $5 bill?
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
