| Question |
Answer |
| Laurier becomes Prime Minister (date). |
1896 |
| Canada sends volunteers to fight in the Boer war in South Africa (date). |
1899 |
| Alaska Boundary Dispute is settled (date). |
1903 |
| BC Native chiefs take land claim to King Edward VII of England (date). |
1906 |
| Vancouver race riot occurs (date). |
1907 |
| Laurier era ends (date). |
1911 |
| Titanic sinks off coast of Newfoundland (date). |
1912 |
| WWI begins (date). |
1914 |
| 'For the next 100 years, Canada shall be the star towards which all men who love progress and freedom shall come.' Who said this? |
Laurier - 1904 |
| Period of moral strictness named after Queen Victoria, British monarch from 1837-1901. |
Victorian age |
| Group of women who lobbied for the right to vote. |
Suffragists |
| Well known Canadian suffragist who campaigned for women's rights. |
Nellie McClung |
| Published 'Anne of Green Gables' in 1908. |
Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| At the beginning of the twentieth century Canada's foreign disputes were settled by which country? |
Britain |
| In this dispute, Britain favoured US interests over Canadian interests - early 20th century. |
Alaska Boundary Dispute |
| Ownership of a fjord called Lynn Canal was particularly important because... |
This waterway provided access to Yukon gold. |
| In the early 20th century French Canadians saw themselves not as British subjects but as... |
Canadiens |
| Laurier's poster campaign to attract new settlers to Canada used this slogan to describe the prairies... |
"Last Best West" |
| Belief that one race or group is superior. |
ethnocentric/ethnocentricity |
| Future Prime Minister who declared in 1907 that "British Columbia must remain a white man's country". |
R.B. Bennett |
| Under this Act, every Chinese person immigrating to Canada had to pay a head tax. |
Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 |
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