The fireworks are over for another year . . . let's see how well you did!
Q. The Canadian north was transformed in the late 1890s when 100,000 prospectors poured into the Yukon hoping to "strike it rich". What name was given to this colourful period?
A. Klondike Gold Rush
Q. What automobile company attempted to establish a luxury car production plant in New Brunswick in the 1970s only to abandon the project in bankruptcy with less than 3000 cars ever produced?
A. Bricklin
Q. Which Canadian inventor created the first practical and commercially successful snowmobile?
A. Joseph Armand Bombardier
Q. What event happened in Winnipeg in 1919?
A. A general strike
Q. Today, 85% of Canada’s exports go to the United States. What share of Canada’s exports went to the United States in 1900?
A. 33%
Q. The Hudson Bay Company is the world’s oldest chartered trading company, having been in business for 340 years. What product gave this company its start?
A. Fur
Q. After the 1929 stock market crash Canada experienced record levels of unemployment and a near collapse of exports. What is the name given to this dark chapter in our economic history?
A. The Great Depression
Q. What is the name of the trade agreement linking Canada, the United States, and Mexico that went into effect on January 1, 1994?
A. The North American Free Trade Agreement / NAFTA
Q. Due to a shortage of coins in New France in the 17th century, settlers used which non-traditional form of currency?
A. Playing cards
Q. Canada has dealt with scandals like the one that led to the Gomery inquiry before. In 1874, John A. Macdonald’s government was brought down when it was discovered he awarded lucrative railway contracts in exchange for campaign funding. What was this scandal called?
A. The Pacific Scandal
Q. When was the last time that $1 Canadian was equal to $1 American?
A. 2008
Q. What famous Canadian company launched a catalogue business based on its founder’s hope that, “This catalogue is destined to go wherever the maple leaf grows?”
A. Eaton’s
Q. When did Canada eliminate the one dollar bill and replace it with the dollar coin?
1987
Q. What major Canadian economic policy of Pierre Trudeau’s government sparked the creation of a bumper sticker proclaiming “Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark?”
A. National Energy Program
Q. In 1911, Wilfrid Laurier’s Liberals lost the federal election because of their support for what agreement with the United States?
A. Reciprocity/Free Trade
Q. After more than a decade of construction and a string of political scandals, what great Canadian engineering feat was completed in 1885 with the hammering of the Last Spike?
A. Canadian Pacific Railway/CPR/Railway
Q. What Toronto-based financial institution is celebrating its 154th anniversary in 2009?
A. TD Bank Financial Group
Q. What major world event brought over 1,000,000 women into the Canadian workforce?
A. The Second World War
Q. What was the name of the ingenious combination of dried meat and berries that First Nations and Métis people produced to feed the fur traders during their long voyages into and out of the Canadian interior?
A. Pemmican
Q. Name the cooperative financial institution that started with one office in the small town of Lévis, Québec in 1900 and today has more than five million members in four provinces.
A. Caisse Populaire Desjardins
Are there any new honorary Canucks out there?
I regret to say I had only 4 correct answers.
Posted by: Kendall | July 02, 2009 at 11:24 AM
14. Not bad for an expat.
Posted by: Laura | July 02, 2009 at 11:34 AM
I stunk at that quiz. My Canadian grandmothers would NOT be proud.
Posted by: Rebecca | July 03, 2009 at 02:31 PM
Well, I only got 15 of 20. Not a great grade. That NB car company really threw me!
Posted by: sandrac | July 03, 2009 at 07:56 PM
I hang my head in shame...only 13 correct. I did get Bricklin though, but darned if I could remember the name of pemmican!
Posted by: Anne | July 05, 2009 at 03:10 PM
Kendall - that is quite impressive for one from the deep south!
Laura - you were educated here! LOL
Rebecca - we find that few Americans know much about live in Canada. We know lots about live down there though . . .
Sandra - that is impressive. I bet the average Canadian would not have gotten that!
Anne - my grade 7 history classes caused me to remember ppemmican. It is funny that things that come to mind so many years later (sigh).
Posted by: JDeQ | July 11, 2009 at 06:35 AM