Crossing on a ferry with my car (canadian plates) from Lewis, DE to Cape May, NJ, the only question the policeman asked me was, “Who the VP of the US?” I answered it smartly and drove on board.
If any one of these questions was required at the border crossing into Canada, I’d never get back into my own country.
…given that I don’t know a single correct answer, I’m not sure I would disagree with Canadian authorities.
(hangs head in shame…) Happy Canada day to you as well…
[spoiler]1. “Nunavut” means “Our land” in Inuktiuk.
Kingston, Ontario (my home town) was once the capital of Canada. Its City Hall, still used, was the seat of government.
Louis Papineau.
dunno
Joey Smallwood.
I’ll guess Nova Scotia
Dunno
Charles Vincent Massey
A really big ass bridge!
Huh, no idea.
Nouvelle Brunswick
All of them now.
Manitoba, in 1871
New Caledonia
Maurice Duplessis
I don’t know her middle name, but her real first name is Avril. Do “Sk8er Boi” for us, Ms. Campbell!
Mount Logan is in the Yukon.
Well, the end of the Seaway is in Quebec. I suppose that would make the other end Detroit, but technically, all the Great Lake are part of the Seaway, so take your pick - Chicago? Milwaukee?
Dunno
Gabrielle Roy wrote it, but I honestly don’t know the English title. I read it en francais.
Beats me.
Nunavut?
I would have to guess “Anne of Green Gables.”
Pierre Trudeau
Montreal
BONUS: I can’t keep all the early short-term PMs straight with a program and a map. I’m guessing most of them had ugly beards.
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And I was about to say that number 12 was out of date too.
And Rick’s right about #18. Nearly any city on the Great Lakes could be the “western end” of the St. Lawrence Seaway, though I think the answer they’re looking for is Duluth, Minnesota.
Most of the answers were right. Here are the ones that haven’t been:
And who was governor at that time [when Upper Canada abolished slavery]?
Besides Quebec, which is the only province with same-sex civil unions? (Note: civil unions, not marriage.)
What are Kim Campbell’s real given names?
Which major cities are located at either end of the Saint Lawrence Seaway? (Note: you’re thinking of the combined Saint Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes Waterway. The Seaway proper is on the St. Lawrence River.)
What is the English title of the novel Bonheur d’occasion [by Gabrielle Roy]?
In which province or territory are Kuujjuaq, Inukjuaq, and Kangiqsualujjuaq located?
What was Canada’s first international bestselling book?
Under which prime minister was gay sex legalized? (Note: you’re close!)
BONUS HARD QUESTION:
In a single period between two general elections, five different Conservative prime ministers served. Name them and what happened to them.
BTW: it’s Nouveau-Brunswick, not Nouvelle. (as a Néobrunswickois, it’s important to me )
This type of response is not IMHO worthy.
BTW, you might want to correct that “Ignorance is bliss” quote -it doesn’t exactly put your post in a good light when said properly.
Nova Scotia - Manitoba has passed an Act which would recognise such unions, but it’s not yet in force.
Kingston, Ontario (where Lake Ontario flows into the St. Lawrence) and Quebec City (where the St. Lawrence broadens into to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.)
Can’t remember; read it en français.
Nunavut.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town ?
New Brunswick
September 1, 1905 - you’re all coming for our centennial in two years, right? It’ll be a party!
PEI, in 1873
Tupper, Meighen, Clark, Turner, Campbell
WWII. Canada entered the Great War automatically when Great Britain declared war; the Empire as a whole was at war. By 1939, the Statute of Westminster was in force and Canada had full international sovereignty. On the outbreak of war in 1939, a vote was held in the Canadian Parliament, and Canada declared war on Germany on September 10, 1939, a week after Britain did. (A little episode I taught in my Con Law class this year.)
The answer is World War I. You’re answering a different question… WWII would be the correct answer to “What was the first war Canada entered on its own accord?” or some such thing. But the question was “what was the first war Canada took place in as a country?” which is kind of nonsensical, but interpreted as closely as I can tell, means took PART in as a country. Canada did take part in WWI, as a unique country.
While the Constitutional framework of the time made the entrance into the war automatic, Canada was, as a belligerent, a distinct country with its own command structure and units, fighting as soldiers of Canada.
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