Discover Canada: Canada's History
Who were the first people to live in Canada?+
- ✓ The Aboriginal peoples
- • French settlers
- • British settlers
- • The Vikings
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: The Aboriginal peoples. Other acceptable answers: First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
What are the three groups of Aboriginal peoples in Canada?+
- • English, French and Scottish
- ✓ First Nations, Inuit and Métis
- • Loyalists, Acadians and Quebecois
- • Cree, Inuit and Viking
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
Where does the name "Canada" come from?+
- • From a French explorer named Canada
- • From the Latin for "north"
- ✓ From "kanata", a Huron-Iroquois word meaning "village"
- • From an English king
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: From "kanata", a Huron-Iroquois word meaning "village".
Which explorer claimed the land for France in 1534 and used the name "Canada"?+
- • John Cabot
- • Samuel de Champlain
- • Christopher Columbus
- ✓ Jacques Cartier
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: Jacques Cartier.
Who founded Quebec City in 1608?+
- ✓ Samuel de Champlain
- • Jacques Cartier
- • John A. Macdonald
- • Louis Riel
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: Samuel de Champlain.
What economic activity drew Europeans across Canada in the 1600s and 1700s?+
- • Gold mining
- ✓ The fur trade
- • Wheat farming
- • Oil drilling
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: The fur trade.
Discover Canada: Who We Are
What are the three founding peoples of Canada?+
- • English, Irish and Scottish
- • French, Spanish and Portuguese
- ✓ Aboriginal, French and British
- • Inuit, Loyalist and Acadian
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: Aboriginal, French and British.
What are the two official languages of Canada?+
- • English and Spanish
- • French and Inuktitut
- • English and Gaelic
- ✓ English and French
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: English and French.
Which province is home to the majority of French-speaking Canadians?+
- ✓ Quebec
- • Ontario
- • New Brunswick
- • Manitoba
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: Quebec.
Which is the only officially bilingual (English and French) province?+
- • Quebec
- ✓ New Brunswick
- • Ontario
- • Nova Scotia
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: New Brunswick.
What does Canada's official motto "A Mari Usque Ad Mare" mean?+
- • Peace, Order and Good Government
- • Strength and Freedom
- ✓ From Sea to Sea
- • God and My Right
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: From Sea to Sea.
What does Canada guarantee regarding equality between women and men?+
- • Custom only, not law
- • The decision of each family
- • Whether a person is a citizen
- ✓ Canadian law gives men and women identical rights, and treats acts such as forced marriage or so-called honour-based violence as criminal offences
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: Canadian law gives men and women identical rights, and treats acts such as forced marriage or so-called honour-based violence as criminal offences.
Discover Canada: How Canadians Govern Themselves
How would you describe Canada's overall system of government?+
- ✓ It is a constitutional monarchy, a parliamentary democracy and a federal state
- • It is a republic, a direct democracy and a one-party state
- • It is a unitary state, a presidential democracy and a monarchy
- • It is a confederation, a dictatorship and a theocracy
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: It is a constitutional monarchy, a parliamentary democracy and a federal state.
Who is Canada's head of state?+
- • The Prime Minister
- ✓ The Sovereign, King Charles III
- • The Governor General
- • The Chief Justice
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: The Sovereign, King Charles III.
Who represents the Sovereign in Canada at the federal level?+
- • The Prime Minister
- • A Lieutenant Governor
- ✓ The Governor General
- • The Speaker of the House of Commons
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: The Governor General.
Who represents the Sovereign in each province?+
- • The Premier
- • A Member of Parliament
- • The Governor General
- ✓ The Lieutenant Governor
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: The Lieutenant Governor.
Who is the head of government in Canada?+
- ✓ The Prime Minister
- • The King
- • The Governor General
- • The Chief Justice
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: The Prime Minister.
How does a person become Prime Minister of Canada?+
- • They are elected directly by all Canadians
- ✓ They are the leader of the political party that wins the most seats in the House of Commons
- • They are appointed by the King
- • They are chosen by the Senate
From *Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship*. Correct answer: They are the leader of the political party that wins the most seats in the House of Commons.
