Socials 10 - Test

Question 0

Fur trade companies? Names?

Answer 0

North West Company. Hudson’s Bay Company

Question 1

Fur trade (1st fur from Canada to Europe & Asia) When?

Answer 1

The first furs had been brought back from Canada during the 16th century

Question 2

In 1821, which companies merged?

Answer 2

North West Company. Hudson’s Bay Company.

Question 3

Who was involved in the fur trade?

Answer 3

Russians, Americans, the Spanish

Question 4

The characteristics of Upper Canada?

Answer 4

population increase (rich & inexpensive farmland)

Question 5

Which part of the land was reserved for fur trade?

Answer 5

Lands West & North of the Great Lakes

Question 6

What did the pioneers want?

Answer 6

boundaries, surveys, roads, canals, schools, and land of their own

Question 7

Highway across Canada (name?) (where?)

Answer 7

Trans-Canada Highway, sets off from Vancouver for Halifax

Question 8

Which part of Canada had inexpensive farmland?

Answer 8

Upper Canada

Question 9

Maritime’s economy relied on _____.

Answer 9

ship building

Question 10

Quebec’s economy relied on ______.

Answer 10

farming

Question 11

Newfoundland’s economy relied on _____.

Answer 11

fish and timber

Question 12

British North American (what did they want in Canada?)

Answer 12

to farm

Question 13

characteristics of Northern & Western Canada

Answer 13

vast spaces, rocky, forbidding to farmers, cold winters, less attractive to settlers than the U.S.

Question 14

Where is Lower & Upper Canada?

Answer 14

Upper: Southern & Eastern Ontario
Lower: Quebec, along St.Lawrence, Maritime Provinces, Newfoundland, P.E.I., Nova Scotia, New Brunswick

Question 15

Why U.S. immigrants moved to Canada?

Answer 15

cheaper land, trading capitol (montreal)

Question 16

French’s perspectives towards the English?

Answer 16

French resented the English (lead to people viewing U.S. as a threat to Canada)

Question 17

Where is Canada?

Answer 17

northern territory, north america, between 50 and 70 degrees latitude