Art & Sports Flashcards
Hockey
Canada’s national winter sport
Canadians watch this sport more than any other sport
The Stanley Cup is for men
The Clarkson Cup is for women
The players wear skates
Curling
- Introduced by Canada’s Scottish pioneers
- Players push a “rock” across the ice
- Some players sweep it with a broom
- The “rock” has a handle on it
The Group of Seven
A famous group of Canadian landscape painters active in the 1920s who painted the wilderness in Canada
Emily Carr
A member of the Group of Seven from British Columbia. She painted images from Aboriginal culture and the West Coast forests.
Tom Thomson
A member of the Group of Seven. His most famous painting is called “The Jack Pine”
Les Automatistes
Les Automatistes were a group of Québécois artistic dissidents from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The movement was founded in the early 1940s by painter Paul-Émile Borduas. Les Automatistes were so called because they were influenced by Surrealism and its theory of automatism.
Extra: Members included Marcel Barbeau, Roger Fauteux, Claude Gauvreau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Gauvreau, Fernand Leduc, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Guy Borremans, Marcelle Ferron and Françoise Sullivan.
Jean-Paul Riopelle
A famous Canadian painter and a part of Les Automatistes active in the 1940s. He was an abstract painter.
Louis-Philippe Hébert
A famous sculptor from Quebec who made historical sculptures.
Name 3 Canadian filmmakers
- Denys Arcand
- Norman Jewison
- Atom Egoyan
- David Cronenberg
- Michel Brault
- Denis Villeneuve
- James Cameron
James Naismith
Inventor of basketball in 1891.
What sport was invented in 1891?
Basketball (by James Naismith)
What is Canada’s national winter sport?
Hockey
Wayne Gretzky
A great Canadian hockey player. He played for the Edmonton Oilers.
What did Canada win in 1972?
An important hockey game against Russia (in the Summit Series)
Catriona Le May Doan
She won a gold metal in speed skating at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games
Donovan Bailey
A double Olympic gold medalist and a world record sprinter active in the 1990s. He is Canadian-Jamaican.
Mark Tewksbury
Olympic gold medalist swimmer active in the 1990s. Also an important activist for gay and lesbian Canadians.
Chantal Petitclerc
A world wheelchair racer and Paralymic champion active in the 1990s, and current senator in Quebec.
Terry Fox
He lost his right leg to cancer when he was 18 years old and began a cross-country run across Canada to raise money for cancer research in 1980 called The Marathon of Hope.
The Marathon of Hope.
- The name for Terry Fox’s cross-country run to raise money for cancer research.
Rick Hansen
In 1985, he went around the world in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord research.
The Grey Cup
A trophy that the CFL (Canadian Football League) teams compete for. It is named after Lord Grey, who donated the trophy to the CFL.
Canadian Football
A popular game that is different from American football and from what other countries call football (soccer)
Lord Grey
Governor General in 1909. The Grey Cup is named after him.
Who was Marjorie Turner-Bailey?
An Olympian and descendant of Black Loyalists. She competed in the 1976 Summer Olympic Games as a sprinter.
