Take the Quiz
the Dominion History Project
 
 

Here are just a few of the ARE YOU CANADIAN quiz questions you will find a the Dominion History Project exhibit on July 1.


  1. 1.What was “CANADA DAY” called before 1982?

  2. 2.Every fur trader knew what a “TRACHE” was, do you?

  3. 3.True or False: ABORIGINAL CANADIANS were not allowed to serve in the Canadian Forces between 1916 - 1961.

  4. 4.Who was the first MODERN EXPLORER recorded to have landed on Canadian Soil in 1497?

  5. 5.What was the last Province to give WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE?

  6. 6.Why is CASTOR CANADENSIS important to Canadians?

  7. 7.When did we get our current NATIONAL ANTHEM?

  8. 8.In what year did Canada “technically” gain INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN in that it had its own foreign policy?

  9. 9.Under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms what is the meaning of “EQUITY UNDER THE LAW”?

  10. 10. What is the name of the TOWER ON PARLIAMENT HILL in Ottawa and what is located inside it?

Answers can be found
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THE “ARE YOU CANADIAN?” CHALLENGE

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet to range over it as coureurs de bois, or runners of the woods, or, as Hontan prefers to call them, coureurs de risques, runners of risks. 

-Henry David Thoreau

Honouring all Canadian Veterans

We encourage you to visit the HMCS Alberni Museum in the Comox Centre Mall where you can experience the stories of Canadians during WWI and WWII. While you are there be sure to pause at the Memorial for the men of HMCS Alberni & U480.