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24 Cards in this Set
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To what ocean is Newfoundland closest?
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Atlantic
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What is known as the effort by women to achieve the right to vote?
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The women's suffrage movement
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How can a party in power be defeated in parliament?
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If a majority of the MPs vote against a major government decision.
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Which province is the biggest producer of metals in Canada
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Ontario
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Which Territory shares a border with a another territory
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Yukon Territory
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Who invented the snowmobile?
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Joseph-Armand Bombardier
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What of transportation did Aboriginal peoples and fur traders use?
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Waterways
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What party is the Official Opposition at federal level?
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The NDP
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Who were the group of seven in modern Canada?
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A group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s
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Which party is the official opposition party of Ontario?
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Progressive Conservative party
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When was the Canadian Pacific Railway completed?
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Late 1800s
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When did the United Empire Loyalists come to Canada?
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Late 1700s
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What document made Confederation legal?
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The British North America Act
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Which province is known as the "Land of 100,00 lakes"?
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Manitoba
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What is a majority government?
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The party in power holds at least half of the seats in the house of commons
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Which two are Great Lakes?
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Huron and Eerie
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Which two provinces are on the Atlantic coast of Canada?
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Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
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Which province has the most valuable forest industry in Canada?
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British Columbia
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Which animal is an official symbol of Canada?
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The Beaver
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What unique art form was developed by first nations people on the west coast?
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Totem poles
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What is a minority government?
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The party in power holds less than of the seats in the house of commons
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More than half of Canada's aeronautics and space industry are located in which province?
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Quebec
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Why did early explorers first come to Atlantic Canada?
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To fish and trade with First Nations people
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Who do Canadians vote for in a federal election?
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A candidate whom they want to represent them in Parliament
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