Historical landmarks

1. What is Canada Day and what does it celebrate?

2. In what year was Ottawa chosen as Canada’s capital?

3. In what year did Japanese Canadians gain the right to vote?

4. In what year was the Magna Carta signed?

5. January 11 is

6. When did the British North America Act come into effect?

7. Since what year have red and white been Canada’s national colours?

8. Vimy Day is observed on

9. In what year did Alberta and Saskatchewan join Canada?

10. In what year did Canada become an independent country?

11. Slavery was fully abolished throughout the British Empire in

12. In what year did Confederation occur?

13. In what year did Prince Edward Island join Canada?

14. In what year did Newfoundland and Labrador join Canada?

15. Germany surrendered on

16. In what year was the first representative assembly elected in Halifax (Nova Scotia)?

17. When did English colonization begin in Canada?

18. When did Canada adopt free trade with the United States?

19. When did 'Canada' become the country’s official name?

20. In what year did King Charles II grant the Hudson’s Bay Company exclusive trading rights in the drainage basin?

21. In what year did Sir John A. Macdonald become Canada’s first Prime Minister?

22. The word 'Canada' began appearing on maps starting in

23. In what year did women in Quebec gain the right to vote?

24. When did Canada’s economy and industry boom?

25. In what year was the Montreal Stock Exchange created?

26. In what year did Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry and 460 soldiers repel 4,000 American invaders at Châteauguay?

27. In what year did the Yukon Territory join Canada?

28. What is the date of Remembrance Day?

29. When does Canada celebrate Thanksgiving?

30. In what year did Canada help create La Francophonie?

31. In what year were major oil fields discovered in Alberta?

32. Since what year has Canada’s constitutional amending procedure existed?

33. In what year did the Second World War begin?

34. In what year was the Bank of Canada (a central bank) created?

35. November 11 is

36. In what year were territorial rights first guaranteed by King George III?

37. In what year did Manitoba and the Northwest Territories join Canada?

38. In what year did Indigenous peoples gain the right to vote?

39. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day is observed on

40. Since what year has Queen Elizabeth been Queen of Canada?

41. When did the U.S. invasion of Canada occur?

42. In what year did British Columbia join Canada?

43. In what year was the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) completed?

44. In what year did the House of Commons recognize that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada?

45. In what year were Canadian women aged 21+ granted the right to vote in federal elections?

46. The Old Age Security program dates back to...

47. In what year did Canada welcome 50,000 Hungarian refugees fleeing Soviet tyranny?

48. In what year was the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms added to the Constitution?

49. The Acadians settled in what are now called the Maritime Provinces in...

50. In what year did the Government of Canada apologize to Japanese Canadians (and compensate victims) for wartime wrongs?

51. About how long was the Canadian Red Ensign used as Canada’s flag?

52. When was Employment Insurance introduced by the federal government in Canada?

53. In what year did the French and the Iroquois conclude peace?

54. When is Labour Day celebrated in Canada?

55. In what year was the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston founded?

56. In what year did the British Parliament ban the buying and selling of slaves?

57. In what year did Ottawa issue an official apology to former students of Indian residential schools?

58. In what year did the thirteen British colonies south of Quebec declare independence and form the United States?

59. When was Canada’s first financial institution opened?

60. In what year, for the first time, could a majority of Canadians feed, house, and clothe themselves adequately?

61. On what date did Nunavut become a territory?

62. What is celebrated on February 15?

63. In what year did the Battle of Trafalgar take place?

64. Nunavut was created in