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Take This Quiz On Canadian History!

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1 Question
30 másodperce
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The scandal resulted from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau saying an expletive toward opposition MPs in Parliament.


Fuddle Duddle

Calendar switch

Quebec Act

2 Question
30 másodperce
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The 2005 federal statute legalized same-sex unions throughout Canada.


Slavery abolished

Civil Marriage Act

Durham Report

3 Question
30 másodperce
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A militant organization dedicated to achieving Quebec sovereignty by whatever means necessary.


Confederation talks

Rupert's Land

FLQ

4 Question
30 másodperce
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The hugely successful World's Fair was held in Montreal during the 100th year of Canada's existence.


Expo 67

PEI

CPR starts

5 Question
30 másodperce
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Canadian indigenous people south of the Arctic circle, and thus separate from the Inuit and Métis.


Yukon joins Canada

First Olympics

First Nations

6 Question
30 másodperce
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A 1917 disaster caused by a collision of cargo ships, remains one of the biggest non-nuclear detonations in history.


Halifax Explosion

Great Depression

D-Day

7 Question
30 másodperce
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The legislation established in 1876 and still active governs Canadian policy regarding indigenous peoples.


NATO

Indian Act

Nunavut founded

8 Question
30 másodperce
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A policy adopted by the Canadian government in the 1970s to promote socio-ethnic pluralism.


Multiculturalism in Canada

Bilingualism

Montreal Olympics

9 Question
30 másodperce
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An international incident between Canada, the US, Spain, and the Nuu-chah-nulth people over an outpost in British Columbia.


Constitutional independence

Iroquois Confederacy

Nootka Crisis

10 Question
30 másodperce
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A plateau just beyond the walls of Quebec, where the French army suffered a decisive defeat and effectively lost New France.


Gulf War

The Plains of Abraham

First Canadian in space

11 Question
30 másodperce
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The period of significant social and political change within the province of Quebec started in the 1960s.


Quiet Revolution

V-J Day

War of 1812

12 Question
30 másodperce
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The eight-game ice hockey contest between the USSR and Canada was waged in 1972 amidst significant Cold War tension.


Korean War

Summit Series

Quebec

13 Question
30 másodperce
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The 18th-century deportation of historically French inhabitants from Maritime Canada and Maine.


V-E Day

Montreal

Acadian Expulsion

14 Question
30 másodperce
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A series of bitter arguments over the draft in World War I exacerbated tensions between British and French Canada.


Conscription Crisis of 1917

A new flag

British settlement

15 Question
30 másodperce
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A disastrous pre-Normandy amphibious assault on occupied France where Canadian troops suffered the majority of casualties.


Expulsion of the Acadians

Dieppe Raid

Durham Report