Modern Canada Flashcards
What is the GATT?
What is the WTO?
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
World Trade Organization.
When was oil discovered in Alberta?
1947
When did Employment Insurance start?
1940
When did ideas for Old Age Security start?
1927
When did the Canada and Quebec Pension plans start?
1965
What is NATO? What is NORAD? What is the UN?
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NORAD - North American Aerospace Defence Command
UN - United Nations
When was the Korean War?
1950-1953.
What was the Quiet Revolution?
An era of rapid change in Quebec when many Quebecers tried to separate from Canada.
What was promised in the Official Languages Act in 1969?
French-language rights and services in the federal government.
In 1948, what were Japanese-Canadians finally allowed to do?
Japanese-Canadians were allowed to vote.
When were Aboriginal people allowed to vote?
Aboriginal people were allowed to vote in 1960.
What idea started in the 1960s?
Multiculturalism
Who was the Group of Seven? Who was Emily Carr?
A group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s who painted the wilderness in Canada; a famous painter from BC who was associated with Group of Seven painters.
Who painted The Jack Pine?
Tom Thomson.
Who was the most famous abstract art painter in Quebec?
Jean-Paul Riopelle.
