Modern Canada Flashcards
Pages 24-27
What opened up the previously restrictive trading policies from the Depression era?
Treaties like the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), now World Trade Organization (WTO)
What began Canada’s modern energy industry in 1947?
Discovery of oil in Alberta
In which year, for the first time, a majority of Canadians were able to afford adequate food, shelter and clothing? When did Canada enjoyed one of the strongest economies and why?
1951
Between 1945-1970
Closer to US and trading partners
Mention some social assistance programs
The Canada Health Act - Basic standard of coverage
Unemployment (employment) insurance - Introduced in 1940
Old Age Security - Devised in 1927
Canada and Quebec Pension Plans - 1965
Publicly funded education (province/territory)
What is Canada’s financial capital?
Toronto’s business district
International alliances Canada is part of?
NATO
NORAD (North American Aerospace Defence Command)
UN - Participating in Korean War (1950-53) with 500 dead and 1k wounded and peacekeeping missions (Egypt, Haiti, Cyprus, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan)
What is the Quiet Revolution?
An era of rapid change, Quebecers sought to separate from Canada in 1960
When did Parliament established the Royal Comission of Bilingualism and Biculturalism? What did it lead to?
1963
Official Languages Act (1969), guarantees French/English federal service across Canada
What is La Francophonie and when was it founded?
International association of French-speaking countries
1970
When was Quebec’s sovereignity defeated in a provincial referendum (2 times)?
1980 and 1995
When did Japanese-Canadians gained the right to vote? And Aboriginal people?
1948
1960
Who were the refugees welcomed by Canada from Communist countries in the 20th century?
37k escaped Hungary in 1956
50k Vietnamese after Vietnam War in 1975
How many Canadians had non British or French origins by 1960s?
One third
Mention people of letters from Canada (8)
Stephen Leacock
Louis Hémon
Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Pauline Johnson
Émile Nelligan
Robertson Davies
Margaret Laurence
Mordecai Richler
Canadian musicians
Sir Ernest MacMillan
Healey Willan
Writers that divesified Canada’s literary experience
Joy Kogawa
Michael Ondaatje
Rohinton Mistry
Contributions to visual arts?
Group of Seven, founded in 1920, painting rugged wilderness landscapes
Emily Carr - Forests and Aboriginal artifacts of West Coast
Les Automatistes of Quebec - Pioneers modern abstract art 1950s - Jean Paul Riopelle
Louis-Philippe Hébert - Sculptor of historical figures
Kenojuak Ashevak - Modern Inuit art
Contributions to film?
Denys Arcand (internationally awarded)
Norman Jewison
Atom Egoyan
Contributions to sports?
Basketball invention - James Naismith, 1891
Ice hockey world domination
Wayne Gretzky - Greatest hockey players (Edmonton Oilers, 1979-1988)
Donovan Bailey - World record sprinter, double gold medal 1996 Olympics
Chantal Petitclerc - World champion wheelchair racer, Paralympic gold medal
Terry Fox - BC, lost right leg from cancer at 18, Marathon of Hope (cross-country run) in 1980, became a hero to Canadians
Rick Hansen - BC, circled globe in wheelchair for spinal cord research funding in 1985
Paul Henderson - Scored the winning goal heard around the world for Canada in Canada-Soviet Summit in 1972
Mark Tewksbury - Olympic gold medal, gay activist
Catriona LeMay Doan - Gold medal in speed skating 2002 winter olympics
Canadian football (CFL) compete for Grey Cup, donated by Lord Grey, Governor General, in 1909
Science and technology?
Marshal McLuhan and Harold Innis - Pioneer thinkers
Canadian Space Agency participated in space exploration since 1989
Canadarm
Nobel Prize Scientists: Gerhard Herzberg (Nazi Germany refugee), John Polanyi, Sidney Altman, Richard E. Taylor, Michael Smith, Bertram Brockhouse
Greatest discoveries and inventions, mention the inventors of:
Telephone
Snowmobile
WW system of standard timezones
First electric light bulb
Radio, first wireless voice message
Pioneer brain surgeon (Greatest living Canadian)
First cardiac pacemaker
Canadarm
BlackBerry
Insulin
Alexander Graham Bell
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Sir Sanford Fleming
Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward
Reginald Fessenden
Dr. Wilder Penfield
Dr. John A. Hopps
SPAR Aerospace-National Research Council
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie
Sir Frederic Banting and Charles Best
