Page 7 Flashcards
1) Chinese and European workers who were working in the construction of Canada Pacific Railways were subjected to pay a Tax called Head Tax at the end of 19th century.
False
2) Women of which province were the first to get the right to vote?
Manitoba
3) Province of Quebec was divided into ____________ by the Constitutional Act of 1791.
Upper Canada (later Ontario)
4) The Jews who tried to escape from the captivity of Nazi Germany in 1939______ .
Were turned away by Canada
5) The intrepid and undaunted people of Montreal who traded on FUR travelled by _________.
By canoe
6) On July 1, 1867, with passage of the British North America Act, the Dominion of Canada was officially established as a self-governing entity within the British Empire.
True
7) Where and when was the first representative assembly elected?
Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1758
8) In which year USA invaded Canada?
1812
9) Who was Therese Casgrain?
Was a Quebec suffragette
10) During the American Revolution who are the people having fled to Nova Scotia and Quebec in large numbers of around 40,000, during the American Revolution?
Loyalists
11) More than 7000 volunteers of Canada were involved in the battle of Boer War during 1899 to 1902?
True
12) Lot of Aboriginal people laid their life in peace.
False
13) The expedition of John Cabot was the beginning of European exploration of Canada which began in the year_______ .
1497
14) Canadian Prisoners of war captured in Hong Kong were decently treated by Japan.
False
15) Who is the first person to have mapped Canada’s Atlantic shore?
John Cabot
