Social Studies

Question 1

1949

Answer 1

NFLD and Labrador joined Confederation

Question 2

1999

Answer 2

Nunavut joined Confederation

Question 3

1914-1918

Answer 3

WW1

Question 4

1939-1945

Answer 4

WW2

Question 5

In WW1 why did Canada have to join automatically?

Answer 5

Because they were still part of the British Colonies

Question 6

What treaty are we in?

Answer 6

Treaty 7

Question 7

Manitoba Act ( Date )

Answer 7

1870 the creation of Manitoba

Question 8

1873

Answer 8

PEI joins Confederation

Question 9

1871

Answer 9

BC joins Confederation

Question 10

1905

Answer 10

Alberta and Saskatchewan joined Confederation

Question 11

1867

Answer 11

Confederation

Question 12

Act of Union ( Date )

Answer 12

1841

Question 13

Act of Union

Answer 13

Combination of Upper and Lower into the Province of Canada

Question 14

First countries in Confederation

Answer 14

Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick

Question 15

BNA Act

Answer 15

1867, Act that established Confederation

Question 16

Wilfred Laurier

Answer 16

First French Canadian Prime Minister 1896

Question 17

William Lyon Mackenzie

Answer 17

Liberal leader won the 1873

Question 18

Clifford Sifton

Answer 18

Advertised for English speaking people to immigrate to the West

Question 19

Prime Minister during WW1

Answer 19

Robert Borden

Question 20

Premier during the Manitoba Schools Act

Answer 20

Thomas Greenway

Question 21

First female judge in Alberta; she was a leading suffragist

Answer 21

Emily Murphy

Question 22

Homestead

Answer 22

Settled land with the purpose of farming and eventually owning it

Question 23

NWT joined Confederation

Answer 23

1870

Question 24

Red River Rebellion (Date)

Answer 24

1869-1870

Question 25

North West Resistance

Answer 25

1885

Question 26

Last battle in the North West Resistance

Answer 26

Battle of Batoche

Question 27

The CPR finished

Answer 27

1885

Question 28

The National Policy (Date)

Answer 28

1878

Question 29

Thomas Scott

Answer 29

Ontario, English speaking, British Protestant, tried to overthrow the red rivers provisional government

Question 30

How many treaties were there?

Answer 30

11

Question 31

Why the numbered treaties

Answer 31

To negotiate the railway

Question 32

Numbered Treaties (Date)

Answer 32

1871

Question 33

Who invented the telephone

Answer 33

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 34

Who invented time zones and the postage stamp in 1884

Answer 34

Sir Sandford Flemming

Question 35

Prohibition

Answer 35

the prevention by law of consumption and sale of alcohol

Question 36

Suffrage

Answer 36

The right to vote

Question 37

The War Times Elections Act

Answer 37

1917

Question 38

Women's Franchise Act

Answer 38

1918

Question 39

The 2 part suffrage acts

Answer 39

The War Times Elections Act and Women's Franchise Act

Question 40

Yukon joined Confederation

Answer 40

1898

Question 41

NW Territories joined Confederation

Answer 41

1870

Question 42

Wartimes Election Act

Answer 42

1917

Question 43

Women's Franchise Act

Answer 43

1918

Question 44

D-Day

Answer 44

1944

Question 45

Meeting Charlottetown

Answer 45

Sept. 1864

Question 46

Meeting Quebec City

Answer 46

Oct. 1864

Question 47

Meeting London, England

Answer 47

Winter 1866 and spring 1867

Question 48

1891

Answer 48

The first Ukraine migrated to Canada

Question 49

1890s

Answer 49

Several thousand Russian Jewish people immigrated to Canada they built a brick factory a flour mill a cannery and several bee colonies

Question 50

1895-1913

Answer 50

Over 100,000 Polish people came to Canada large number became farmers some went to work at the new coal industry in Drumheller

Question 51

CBC -Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Answer 51

1936 created to foster canadian national spirit. Has Anglophone and Francophone channels

Question 52

APTN -Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

Answer 52

1999 the world's first national aboriginal television network

Question 53

1958

Answer 53

CBC completed a microwave network linking Victoria to Halifax the longest microwave network in the world

Question 54

1978

Answer 54

CBC became the first broadcaster in the word to use a orbiting satellite for television