Welcome to Chapter Quiz: Canada’s History
Canada’s History is the third chapter in ‘Discover Canada’. In this quiz, you will be able to self-evaluate your understanding on the following:
- Discovery of Canada
- European Exploration
- Abolition of Slavery
- The Fight for Canada
- Dominion of Canada Expansion
- Canada’s participation in World Wars
1. The French and Aboriginal people collaborated in which trade?
2. Who became the first head of a responsible government?
3. When Hudson’s Bay Company received its exclusive trading rights over the watershed draining into Hudson Bay?
4. Foundations of Canada were laid from how many years of coexistence between Aboriginals and Europeans?
5. In which year the Province of Quebec divided into Upper Canada and Lower Canada?
6. Voyageurs and coureurs des bois formed strong alliances with First Nations.
7. Canada remains a leading member of the Commonwealth to this day.
8. What is the meaning of Iroquoian word – kanata?
9. When Nunavut joined the Confederation?
10. In which year Ottawa sent soldiers to retake the Fort Garry?
11. The skilled and courageous men who travelled by canoe were called voyageurs and coureurs des bois.
12. When the English colonized the Atlantic seaboard?
13. When the United States launched an invasion in Canada?
14. When British Columbia joined the Confederation?
15. The present-day Canada-USA border is partly an outcome of the War of 1812.
16. When the slavery was abolished in Upper Canada?
17. When Quebec granted the voting rights to women?
18. Under which act, the Dominion of Canada was officially born?
19. Some Canadians believed that Canada should adopt American republican values or even try to join the United States.
20. When female citizens aged 21 and over were granted the right to vote in federal elections?
