True or False

Question 1

Before coming to Canada, Bill Miner was arrested 4 times for stage coach robbery.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Bill Miner spent 30 years in the San Quentin Prison

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Indigenous Trackers were used to track Bill Miner down.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Miner had a tattoo of a crow on his arm.

Answer 4

False

It was a tattoo of a dancing lady

Question 5

Bill Miner got his inspiration to rob trains from the silent film, “Great Train Robbery”

Answer 5

False
(He likely learned it from fellow prison inmates at San Quentin)

Question 6

Bill Miner’s mugshots were taken by a female photographer named Mary Spencer.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

The Winnipeg General Strike lasted for 10 weeks

Answer 7

False

(The strike lasted 6 weeks)

Question 8

The Citizen’s Committee of 1000 demanded the government for increased workers rights.

Answer 8

False

(Despite the name, the Citizen’s Committee of 1000 was AGAINST the strike, and was composed of everyone who wanted the strike to end)

Question 9

All Women gained the right to vote in one emancipation law.

Answer 9

False

(It was a gradual, bit by bit process to voting rights for women.)

Question 10

Mary Ann Shadd proposed Education as being the best tool for improvement in society.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

The Group of Seven were all city dwellers

Answer 11

True

(They all worked and lived in Toronto)

Question 12

The Grey Owl was an Indigenous man preaching natural conservation.

Answer 12

False

(The Grey Owl, or, his real name, Archibald Belaney, was an Englishman pretending to be Indigenous)

(But, he did preach for natural conservation)

Question 13

Even though they knew he wasn’t truly Indigenous, local Native tribes supported Archibald Belaney and his message.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

In 1929-32, the global GDP dropped by 15%

Answer 14

True

Question 15

The Western Provinces were the least affected during the Depression.

Answer 15

False

(They suffered perhaps the most, as they heavily relied on their exports)

Question 16

The On to Ottawa Trek saw strikers march to Parliament demanding more rights for workers freedoms.

Answer 16

False

(They never actually made it to Ottawa. Instead, they protested in Regina)

Question 17

The RCMP manage to peacefully disperse the On to Ottawa Trekkers in Regina.

Answer 17

False

(The RCMP beat many with batons, and in a swift panic, fire into the crowd killing 1 and injuring 100

Question 18

The “Regina Plot” was the name of the On to Ottawa Trekers protest in Regina in 1935.

Answer 18

True

(It was the largest protest during the Great Depression in Canada)

Question 19

The government handling of the Regina Plot deeply hurt Prime Minister R.B Bennets popular support in 1935.

Answer 19

True

Bennet will lose the election to William Lyon Mackenzie King’s Liberal government in the next election.

Question 20

“Bennet’s blanket” was the name given towards newspapers used as blankets by the homeless unemployed.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

In order to prevent dust storms from engulfing the interior of prairie houses, families would drape wet blankets over their windows.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Macdonald said that Day Schools were not enough, because the child would simply return home to his savage cultural family.

Answer 22

True

(He said if the child was at the residential school for long periods at a time, without being even near their household, they would be successfully “whitened”.

Question 23

Kids at residential schools were 5x more likely to die than normal provincial school system establishments

Answer 23

True

Question 24

In Residential Schools, half of the school day was for learning, whilst the other half was for unpaid labour.

Answer 24

True