Practice Citizenship Test By Chapter – Canada’s History

Who changed Native people’s lives forever?

When did France and Great Britain battle for control of North America?

Which provinces formed the new country called the Dominion of Canada?

When did Canada’s soldiers start using maple leaf cap badges?

Who seized Fort Garry during the Northwest challenge in 1869?

When did the name Canada become official?

When did the United States launch an invasion to conquer Canada?

When did Quebec grant women the right to vote?

A number of rebels were hanged or exiled; some exiles later returned to Canada during the Rebellions of 1837–38.

Who was best known as a prominent military leader of the Metis people?

Which day was witnessed as the birth of a nation?

Who sent soldiers in 1870 to retake Fort Garry?

Whose portrait is on the $5 bill?

When did British troops, First Nations, and Canadian volunteers defeat an American invasion?

The women’s suffrage movement was an effort by women to achieve ____.

Thousands of slaves escaped from the United States, followed “______” and settled in Canada via the Underground Railroad, a Christian anti-slavery network.

The 12,000 Metis were consulted when Canada took over the northwest region from the Hudson’s Bay Company.

The national police force of Canada is

What was the source of living for native people?

For the first time, the Constitutional Act of 1791 granted Canada legislative assemblies elected by the people.

In the 1920s, the British West Indies (British territories in the Caribbean Sea) become part of Canada.

Who created two levels of government: federal and provincial in the 1860s?

When was the first representative assembly elected in Prince Edward Island?

In which year did John Cabot set foot on Newfoundland?

Who was the key architect of the Confederation from Quebec?

Until 1982, July 1 was celebrated as _____.

When did the Canadian Pacific Railway end?

For how many years before confederation, did the flag of the Hudson’s Bay Company fly over Western Canada?

Who won bronze medals in the Olympics and served as a captain in the Canadian Army during the Second World War?

When did Upper and Lower Canada unite as the Province of Canada?

Who granted exclusive trading rights(over the watershed draining into Hudson Bay) to the company?

Who established the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867?

When was Yukon Territory added to Canada?

When did Canada take retaliation and burned down the White House and other public buildings in Washington?

In ____, some black Nova Scotians established Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa), a new British colony for freed slaves. 

Which day is recognized as Sir John Macdonald's Day?

When was the Montreal Stock Exchange opened?

____ British and ___Americans immigrated to Canada during the economic boom of the 1890s and 1990s.

Who was the first European to explore the St. Lawrence River?

When did the name ‘Canada’ start appearing on maps?

What is the first line of the poem recited on Remembrance Day?

Who are the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations along with Canada?

Who founded The Provincial Freeman, a weekly newspaper dedicated to anti-slavery, in Canada in 1853?

Who renamed the colony the “Province of Quebec”?

The Atlantic colonies and the two Canadas(Upper and Lower) were known collectively as ______.

Who were the first people to live in Canada?

The Vimy Memorial in France honors those who served and died in the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, the first British victory of the First World War

When was The Bank of Canada created?

The system we have today is that if the government loses a confidence vote in the assembly it must resign.

Who was the first Canadian woman to practice medicine in Canada?

____ were boom times for Canada with prosperity for businesses and low unemployment.

Who was the first person to draw a map of Canada’s East Coast?

Who was the first European to explore present-day Québec City and Montreal?

When did the British Parliament abolish slavery throughout the Empire?

Whose portrait is on the $10 bill?

When did the French and the Iroquois make peace?

Which Act divided the Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada?

Who assigned Canada’s national colors in 1921?

The French-speaking Catholic people are known as ____.

Who were the first two French explorers came to Canada in 1604?

Who made Ontario the first province to abolish slavery in the British Empire in 1793?

When were the first financial institutions opened in Canada?

When was the first representative assembly elected in New Brunswick?

What is the last line of the poem recited on Remembrance Day?

Who led Quebec into Confederation and helped negotiate the entry of the Northwest Territories, Manitoba, and British Columbia into Canada?

The present-day Nova Scotia was then called Acadia.

Who led thousands of Loyalist Mohawk Indians into Canada?

When did the debate on whether to use both French and English held by the first elected Assembly of Lower Canada, in Québec City?

Today, July 1 is celebrated as _____.

Who was an outspoken activist in the movement to abolish slavery in the U.S.A.?

The Hudson’s Bay Company had employees from

Who was the first leader of a responsible government in Canada in 1849?

July 1 is celebrated to commemorate the day that Canada became a self-governing Country.

When did the Government of Canada apologize to the Chinese community for the discriminatory policy?

Which day is observed to honor the sacrifices of over a million brave men and women who have served in wars?

When did European start to explore Canada?

When did the first movement to abolish the transatlantic slave trade emerged in the British Parliament?

When was the first representative assembly elected in Halifax, Nova Scotia?

Who along with Aboriginals laid the foundation of Canada in the first 200 years?

The 13 British colonies to the south of Quebec declared independence and formed the United States in ____.

When did the first world war end?

How many people fled the oppression of the American Revolution to settle in Nova Scotia and Quebec?

Who became the Fathers of Confederation?

When did England grant exclusive trading rights(over the watershed draining into Hudson Bay) to the company?

The stock market crash of 1929 led to the Great Depression and was referred to as ____.

Which day is known as the Dominion of Canada?

What did the Canadian Pacific Railway symbolize?

Which commanders were killed during Britain and France battle?

Who said the following “My only reply will be from the mouths of my cannons!” to English?

The Loyalists who fled the American Revolution came from

Which community was subjected to a race-based entry fee?

How many people were killed or wounded when the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in April 1917?

Which were the trading posts for The Hudson’s Bay Company?

What was known as Lower Canada?

When was the North West Mounted Police(NWMP) established?

Remembrance day is observed at __th hour of ___th day of ___th month.

Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada?

What was known as Upper Canada?

Who captured Detroit but was killed near Niagra Falls in The War of 1812?

Who composed the poem that is often recited on Remembrance day?

Thousands of nurses who served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps were nicknamed as 

Which community was subjected to the Head Tax?

When did the British Parliament prohibit the buying and selling of slaves?

The first four provinces of Canada were____?

Which poem is recited on Remembrance day that was composed in 1915?

The Canadian Pacific Railway was a ____ that went across Canada from the west coast to the east coast.

Who defended the rights of the Canadiens, and defeated an American military invasion of Quebec in 1775?

Who supervised the Loyalist migration to Nova Scotia and Quebec in 1782–83?

The Canadian Pacific Railway made it possible for thousands of immigrants from ____ to settle in West Canada.

With the arrival of Europeans, a large number of aboriginals died due to diseases.

Whose bravery contributed to victory at the Battle of Beaver Dams?

Which flower does Candian wear on Remembrance day?

Who sent some of his best soldiers to defend Canada in 1814?

When was Newfoundland and Labrador added to Canada?

The British Parliament passed the British North America Act in ____.

More than ____ nurses nicknamed “bluebirds” served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.

Who helped found the Canadian national capital, who defeated Napoleon in 1815?

When is the birth of Canada?

Who was the founder of the women’s suffrage movement?

The CPR project was financed by ____ and ____investors and built by ____ and ____ labor.

Who was the first French Canadian prime minister?

When was Alberta, Saskatchewan added to Canada?

Which day is known as the Dominion of Canada?

Did The Quebec Act restore Fench civil law while maintaining British criminal law?

What does the word ‘Kanata’ means?

Who refused to surrender Quebec to the English in 1690?

In the 1600s, the French and Aboriginal people collaborated in which trade economy?

Which day is known as “ the black day of the German Army”?

Who led an expedition from Nova Scotia in 1814 and burned down the White House and other public buildings in Washington?

Who is seen as a defender of Metis rights?

What are the colors of our National Flag?

Who was the first woman MP in 1921?

Who is known as the father of Manitoba?

Who was the first province to grant voting rights to women in 1917?

Who is known as a champion of French language rights?

Who won several victories over the English in the late 17th and early 18th centuries?

In 1933, unemployment reached ___ and wiped out many businesses.

In the 1600s, English colonies became poorer and least populous than New France.

Who walked a 19-mile (30-km) to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon of a planned American attack?

The present-day Canada-U.S.A. border is partly an outcome of ______, which ensured that Canada would remain independent of the United States.

What is the main purpose of The Bank of Canada?

Due to the financial upheaval in the 1930s, immigration rose exponentially.

The first British North American colony to attain full responsible government in 1847–48 was?

Why was warfare common among aboriginal people?

In 1759, the British defeated the _____in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec City.

For centuries Canada’s economy was based mainly on farming and on exporting _____ transported by roads, lakes, rivers, and canals.

Where is North West Mounted Police(NWMP) headquarters?

Who founded the City of York (now Toronto)?

Who built a fortress in 1608 at what Québec City is now located?

In which year, the first European settlement north of Florida was established?

How many people volunteered to fight in the Boer War?

Out of a total population of eight million, more than ____  Canadian served when Britain declared war in 1914.

When was British Columbia added to Canada?

When did the British Parliament pass the Quebec Act?

When did France’s empire mark the end in America?

How many people sacrificed their lives during world wars?

Dominion of Canada refers to “dominion from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth.”

Who recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be merged and given responsible government?

How many Canadians were killed and wounded in the first World War?

Who gave women the right to vote in federal elections?

Who introduced responsible government in Canada in 1848-49?

How many black Loyalists freedmen and slaves came north seeking a better life during the American Revolution?

Most Canadian female citizens aged 21 or over were granted the right to vote in federal elections in ___.

When were Manitoba, and Northwest Territories added to Canada?

The remains of ___ settlements are a World Heritage site.

Who explored Canada’s Atlantic region, Newfoundland and Labrador?

Who joined Canada in 1871 to build a railway to the West coast?

When did the Americans burn the Government House and the Parliament Buildings in York (now Toronto)?

When did the American attempt to conquer Canada had failed?

Which Act allowed religious freedom for Catholics and permitted them to hold public office, a practice not then allowed in Britain?

Because the progress toward full democracy was too slow in the 1830s, Lord Durham said that the quickest way for the Canadiens to achieve progress was to assimilate into English-speaking Protestant culture.

Europeans when first discovered Canada, they thought they reached the East Indies and started calling the people Indians.

Who suggested the term Dominion of Canada in 1864?

When was Nunavut added to Canada?