Practice Questions Free - Page 7

1) Women of which province were the first to get the right to vote?

• Prince Edward Island
• Manitoba
• Alberta
• British Columbia

2) In America the End of France was marked with the _____________ .

• The Quebec Act of 1774
• The formation of the United States
• The battle of the Plains of Abraham
• Granting the Hudson's Bay Company

3) What was the name of the person who was the kingpin in the formation of Confederation and responsible for bringing French Canada, Manitoba and British Columbia into the Dominion of Canada?

• Gabriel Dumont
• François Cartier
• Jacques Cartier
• Sir George-Etienne Cartier

4) Who was Therese Casgrain?

• Founded the art group Les Auto
• Was first Canadian woman-public
• Was a Quebec suffragette
• Became a world wheelchair race

5) On July 1, 1867, with passage of the British North America Act, the Dominion of Canada was officially established as a self-governing entity within the British Empire.

• True
• False

6) The intrepid and undaunted people of Montreal who traded on FUR travelled by _________.

• By car
• By foot
• By sailboat
• By canoe

7) Who is the person recommended merging Lower and Upper Canada when he was asked for report on rebellions in 1837-1838?

• Major General Robert Ross
• Lord Durham
• Count Frontenac
• Major-General Sir Isaac Brock

8) During the American Revolution who are the people having fled to Nova Scotia and Quebec in large numbers of around 40,000, during the American Revolution?

• Canadians
• Coureurs de Bois
• Voyageurs
• Loyalists

9) The Jews who tried to escape from the captivity of Nazi Germany in 1939______ .

• Were accepted by Canada
• Were turned away by Canada

10) Lot of Aboriginal people laid their life in peace.

• True
• False

11) The expedition of John Cabot was the beginning of European exploration of Canada which began in the year_______ .

• 1797
• 1897
• 1697
• 1497

12) Who is the first person to have mapped Canada's Atlantic shore?

• The Vikings
• Jacques Cartier
• John Cabot
• King Francis

13) Province of Quebec was divided into ____________ by the Constitutional Act of 1791.

• Upper Canada (later Quebec)
• Ontario and Quebec
• Upper Canada (later Ontario)
• Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec

14) Who was the person infamously known to have burned The White House in Washington, DC?

• Lieutenant Colonel Charles de
• Chief Tecumseh
• Major General Sir Isaac Brock
• Major General Robert Ross

15) In which year USA invaded Canada?

• 1867
• 1912
• 1812
• 1809

16) Where and when was the first representative assembly elected?

• Fort Langley, British Columbia
• Vancouver, British Columbia
• Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1758
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1791

17) Canadian Prisoners of war captured in Hong Kong were decently treated by Japan.

• True
• False

18) More than 7000 volunteers of Canada were involved in the battle of Boer War during 1899 to 1902?

• True
• False

19) Chinese and European workers who were working in the construction of Canada Pacific Railways were subjected to pay a Tax called Head Tax at the end of 19th century.

• True
• False

20) Which of these acts established the French civil law and English Criminal law?

• The British North America Act
• The Quebec Act
• The Constitutional Act
• The Multiculturalism Act