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☀️History6 test2
Test 2 grade 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Water route that supposedly flowed through North America to Asia | Northwest Passage |
| Oldest business in Canada | Hudson’s Bay Company |
| Only public highway north of the Arctic Circle open year round | Dempster Highway |
| Gold rush of 1897 | Klondike Gold Rush |
| War between the English and French over north American boundaries | French and Indian war |
| Land claimed by France in the New World, including Canada | New France |
| Gateway to the west | Winnipeg |
| Polar bear capital of the world I | Churchill |
| One of the worlds largest inland ports | Montreal |
| Canada‘s Gateway to the Pacific | Vancouver |
| Capital of Canada | Ottawa |
| Largest city in Canada | Toronto |
| The only walled city north of Mexico | Quebec city |
| Body of water that has some of the worlds highest tides | Bay of Fundy |
| Canada’s longest river | Mackenzie River |
| Largest freshwater lake in the world | Lake Superior |
| Canada’s highest peak | Mt. Logan |
| One of the most beautiful waterfalls found in both Canada and the United States | Niagara Falls |
| The worlds largest bay | Hudson Bay |
| The world‘s largest inland seaway | St. Lawrence Seaway |
| First modern explorer to reach the north American mainland | John Cabot |
| Explore who opened the way for trade between the French and the Indians | Jacques Cartier |
| Explorer who helped establish the first important French settlement ,Quebec | Samuel de Champlain |
| Explorer, who discovered the worlds largest bay | Henry Hudson |
| Canadian missionary to China, who later wrote books telling of the missionary work | Isobel Kuhn |
| British explorers who mapped Canada’s Pacific Coast | Captain Cook and Captain Vancouver |
| The “apostle of Nova Scotia” | Henry Alline |
| One of the first pioneer missionaries to Manitoba Canada | James Evans |
| The two Canadian researchers who discovered a treatment for diabetes | Frederick Bunting, and Charles Best |
| Who were the French settlers who refused to pledge their loyalty to the British crown | Acadians |
| American colonist who moved to Canada rather than fight against their king in the war for independence were known as who? | Loyalist |
| One of Canada’s most important natural resources | Fish |
| Canada is the largest world, producer of zinc, and what? | Nickel |
| Canada leads the world in the production of? | Newsprint |
| Canada is one of the worlds leading exporters of what? | Wheat |
| What kind of government does Canada have? | Constitutional monarchy |
| What are Canada‘s world famous police force the royal Canadian mountain police called | Mounties |
| What are Canada’s two official languages? | English and French |
| What is the capital of Alberta? | Edmonton |
| What is the capital of British Columbia? | Victoria |
| What is the capital of Manitoba? | Winnipeg |
| What is the capital of New Brunswick? | Fredericton |
| What is the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador? | St. John’s |
| What is the capital of Nova Scotia? | Halifax |
| What is the capital of the northwest territories | Yellowknife |
| What is the capital of Nunavut? | Iqaluit |
| What is the capital of Ontario? | Toronto |
| What is the capital of Prince Edward Island? | Charlottetown |
| What is the capital of Quebec? | Quebec city |
| What is the capital of Saskatchewan? | Regina |
| What is the capital of the Yukon Territory? | Whitehorse |
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