Welcome to Chapter Quiz: Modern Canada
Modern Canada is the fourth chapter in ‘Discover Canada’. In this quiz, you will be able to self-evaluate your understanding on the following:
- Trade and Economic Growth
- Arts and Culture
- Canadian Discoveries and Inventions
1. Who invented the first cardiac pacemaker?
2. In 1951, for the first time, a majority of Canadians were able to afford adequate food, shelter and clothing.
3. Who invented the snowmobile, a light-weight winter vehicle?
4. Under which act, English and French became the official language of Canada?
5. Who is also known as “the greatest living Canadian”?
6. When federal government introduced Unemployment insurance (employment insurance)?
7. In which year Parliament established the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism?
8. Who discovered insulin, a hormone to treat diabetes?
9. Who gained the right o vote in 1948?
10. Who invented the worldwide system of standard time zones?
11. When did the quiet revolution take place?
12. In 1970, Canada helped found La Francophonie, an international association of French-speaking countries.
13. Who hit on the idea of the telephone at his summary house in Canada?
14. Who began a cross-country run, the “Marathon of Hope” to raise money for cancer research?
15. By the 1960s, one-third of Canadians had origins that were neither British nor French.
16. Who circled the globe in a wheelchair to raise funds for spinal cord research?
17. When Old Age Security was devised?
18. When Canada and Quebec Pension Plans were introduced?
19. In which year oil was discovered in Alberta which began Canada’s modern energy industry?
20. Wayne Gretzky, is one of the greatest hockey players of all time.
