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History Section
1. Different Canada
Question | Answer |
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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 |