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1
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Name 2 key documents that contain our rights and freedoms

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Magna Carta, Charter of rights and freedoms

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2
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4 rights Canadians enjoy

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Mobility rights, Aboriginal poeple’s rights, Official language rights and minority language education rights, multiculturalism

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3
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4 fundamental freedoms

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Conscience and religion
Thought, belief, opinon and expression
Peaceful assembly
Association

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4
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Equality of men and women?

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Don’t tolerate barbaric cultural practices

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5
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Examples of taking responsibility for yourself and your family

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Getting a job and working hard in keeping with one’s abilities

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Founding peoples of Canada?

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Aboriginal, French and British

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7
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Who are the Metis?

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Mixed aboriginal and european ancestry, live in prairies

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8
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What does inuit mean?

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The people

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9
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What does “responsible government” mean?

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Ministers must have suport of a majority of elected representatives in order to govern

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10
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Who was Sir Louis Hippolyte La Fontaine?

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Champion of FR language rights, first head of a responsible gov’t in 1849

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11
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What did the Canadian Pacific Railway symbolize?

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unity

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12
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What does Confederation mean?

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Founding of Canada

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13
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What is the significance of the discovery of insulin by Sir Frederick Banting and CHarles Best?

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treats diabetes

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14
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What is a constitutional monarchy?

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Head of state is the Queen who reigns in accordance with constitution (law)

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15
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Branches of gov’t?

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Executive, Judicial, Legislative

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16
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Difference between Queen & Prime Minister

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Prime minister discerns governing of country, Queen non-partisan role as focus of citizenship and allegiance

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17
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Highest honour Canadians can recieve

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Victoria Cross

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18
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What do you do when you go to vote

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go to polling station on your voter information card

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19
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Who is entitled to vote?

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Citizens at least 18 yrs old on voter list

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20
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Are you obliged to tell other ppl how you voted?

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No

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21
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After an election, which party forms the gov’t

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The one with the most seats in the house

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22
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Who is your MP?

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Lloyd Longfield

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23
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What are the 3 levels of gov’t?

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Municipal, federal, provincial

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24
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What is the role of the courts?

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settle disputes about laws

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25
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Are you allowed to question the police about service or conduct?

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Yes

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26
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Name 2 Canadian symbols

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Canadian Crown, Flag, Maple leaf, Fleur-de-Lys, Coat of arms, Parliament buildings, beaver

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27
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What are the Atlantic Provinces

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NFL, PEI, NS, NB

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28
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What is the capital of ON

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toronto

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29
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Who is louis riel

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Formed uprising, defended metis rights and father of Manitoba

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30
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Dr. Emily Stowe

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First canadian woman to practice medicine in Cada

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31
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Signing of the Magna Carta

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1215

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32
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Confederation

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1867

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33
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Residential schools

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1800s to 1980s

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34
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John Buchan

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popular gov general of Canada (1935-40) - immigrants should retain individuality and make their contribution to national character

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35
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When were the Acadians deported from their homeland

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1755-1763

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36
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Marjourie Turner-Bailey

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from NS - descendant of black loyalists & olympian

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37
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John Cabot

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first to map Canada’s east coast in 1497

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38
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Jacque Cartier

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Made 3 voyages across atlantic between 1534 and 1542 claiming the land for france

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39
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Pierre de Monts & Samuel de Champlain

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French explorers who made first European settlement onorth of Florida in 1604

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40
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When did King Charles II grant Hudson’s Bay exclusive trading rights over the Hudson Bay watershed?

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1670

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41
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When was battle of the plains of Abraham?

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1759 - marked end of France’s empire in America

42
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Brigadier James Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm

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Commanders of both armies, died at plains of abraham

43
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Quebec Act

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1774 - religious freedom for catholics, let them hold public office, restored FR civil law while maintaining british criminal law

44
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Joseph Brant

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Led thousands of loyalist Mohawk Indians into Canada

45
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Establishment of Freetown

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1792 - black NovaScotians in Sierra Leone

46
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First representative assembly elected in NS

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in 1758. Next was New Brunswick in 1785

47
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Constitutional act

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Divided Quebec into Upper & Lower Canada. 1791

48
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Lieutenant-Colonel John Graves Simcoe

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Upper Canada’s 1st Lieutenant Governor & founder of York / Toronto

49
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary

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Activist in movememtn to abolish slavery in the US - 1st woman publisher in Canada

50
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Montreal stock exchange opened

51
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Sir Isaac Brock

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Captured Detroit in war of 1812

52
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Charles de Salaberry

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Turned back 4,000 Americans at Chateauguay, south of Montreal

53
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Burned the whitehouse

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1814 - Major General Robert Ross

54
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Rebellions of 1837-38

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Reformers believed movement towards democracy was too slow, but they failed

55
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Lord Durham

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English reformer sent to report on rebellions - recommended Upper & Lower Canada be merged and given responsible gov’t

56
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Sir Etienne-Paschal Tache & Sir George Etienne Cartier

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Fathers of Confederation

57
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When Upper & Lower Canada were united as province of Canada

58
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Sir Louis Hippolyte La Fontaine and Robert Baldwin

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Worked towards responsible gov’t. Louis champion of Fr language rights & 1st leader of responsible gov’t in Canadas

59
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1st colony to attain full responsible gov’t

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NS - 1847-48

60
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Lord Elgin

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governor of united Canada who introduced responsible gov’t

61
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British North America Act

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Confederation - 1867 (Dominion Day)

62
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Sir Leonard Tilley

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father of confederation from NB - suggested term dominion of Canada

63
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Years of provinces joining

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1967 - ON, QC, NS, NB
1879 - Manitoba, NWT
1871 - BC
1873 - PEI
1898 - Yukon
1905  - AB, SK
1949 - NFL
1999 - Nunavut
64
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Retaking of FT Garry

65
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2nd rebellion in SK, led to execution of Riel

66
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Canada takes over NW region from Hudson’s Bay

67
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When was Canadian Pacific Railway completed

68
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Economic boom

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1890s - early 1900s

69
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Laurier

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first French-Canadian PM since confederation, $5 bill

70
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Vimy day

71
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Sir Arthur Currie

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Canada’s greatest Solider, WWI

72
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Agnes Macphail

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First woman MP in 1921

73
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Bank of Canada created

74
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Official languages act

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1969 - guarantees FR & EN services in Fed gov’t

75
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Alexander Graham Bell

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Invented the Telephone

76
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Joseph Armand Bombardier

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Invented the smowmobile

77
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Sir Sandford Fleming

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invented time zones

78
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Matthew Evans & Henry Woodward

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invented the first electric lightbulb

79
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Reginal Fessenden

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contributed to radio invention, sent first wireless voice message in the world

80
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Dr. Wilder Penfield

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Pioneering brain surgeon at McGill, greatest living Canadian

81
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Dr. John. A Hopps

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Invented first pacemaker

82
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Mike Lazaridis & Jim Balsillie

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Founded RIM

83
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Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best

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Insulin, saved 16 million lives worldwide

84
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of electoral districts in Canada

85
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Current governor General

A

Richard Wagner

86
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Lieutenant Governor General

A

Elizabeth Dowdeswell

87
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Peace tower

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completed in 1927 memory of 1st world war

88
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Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn

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VIctoria Cross recipient, served in British Army in Charge of light Brigade at Balaclava in the Crimean war, 1st to recieve, in 1854

89
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Able Seaman William Hall of Horton, NS

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Parents were AM slaves, 1st Black man to be awarded victoria cross for role during siege of Lucknow during Indian Rebellion of 1857

90
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Corporal Filip Konowal

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Victoria Cross recipient, battle of Hill 70 in 1917, first non-British Empire person to get it

91
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Billy Bishop

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earned victoria cross for Royal Flying Corps in WWI

92
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Captain Paul Triquet

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Earned Victoria Cross leading attack on Casa Berardi in Italy in 1943 during WWII

93
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Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray

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Navy pilot, killed while bombing and sinking a Japanese warship in August 1945, few days before end of WWII, last to recieve

94
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John A Macdonald Day

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January 11

95
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Fete Nationale

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June 24 - feast of St. John the Baptist

96
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day

97
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NAFTA

98
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Canada’s 3 industries

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Service, Manufacturing, Natural Resources

99
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Industrial and manufacturing heartland

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Central Canada

100
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industries in Ontario

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Service & manufacturing

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