Canadian History Facts - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Fur Trade dominant company that still exists today	Hudson's Bay Company	88%
War in which the United States of America attempted to conquer Canada	War of 1812	80%
First Prime Minister	Sir John A. Macdonald	78%
French explorer who mapped the St. Lawrence river	Jacques Cartier	66%
Year of Confederation	1867	64%
Indentured servants from this country were used to complete the railroad	China	64%
Founder of Québec City	Samuel de Champlain	62%
Name for southern Ontario, 1791 - 1840	Upper Canada	58%
French ally of first Prime Minister	George-Étienne Cartier	56%
Métis rebel from Red River	Louis Riel	56%
Act that required First Nations to be registered, among other oppressive laws	Indian Act	52%
Norse Settlement, established ~1000 CE	Vinland	52%
Name for parts of Québec and Ontario, 1791 - 1840	Lower Canada	50%
Systemic racist indoctrination of First Nations children occurred in these schools	Residential Schools	50%
Railroad from coast to coast	Canadian Pacific Railway	46%
Famous Canadian victory in WWI	Vimy Ridge	46%
Italian explorer who voyaged to Newfoundland in 1497	Jean Cabot	40%
Woman who walked from American territory to warn the British of an attack	Laura Secord	40%
Battle near Québec City between the British and the French in 1759	Battle of the Plains of Abraham	32%
Term for men who canoed through the Canadian wilds to explore	Voyageurs / Coureurs des bois	32%
Poet, wrote "In Flanders Fields"	John McCrae	16%
First intendant of New France	Jean Talon	10%
Famous Five members who helped grant women suffrage	Nellie McClung / Henrietta Muir Edwards / Irene Parlby / Emily Murphy / Louise McKinney	10%
Subjugation of Japanese people during WWII	Japanese Internment	8%
Term used for the governing system of the Province of Canada	Responsible Government	4%