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人名汇总:(陆续补充)
1. The greatest Canadian hockey player is Wayne Gretzky
2. The first female member of parliament is Agnes Mc Phail
3. The tallest mountain is named after Sir William Logan
4. Canada’s greatest soldier in the First World War is Sir Arthur Currie
5. Who helped to form the new country called the Dominion of Canada? first Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald
6. Who is considered by many to be the father of Manitoba? Louis Riel
7. Who was the first leader of a responsible government in the Canadas in 1849? Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine
8. Who circled globe in a wheelchair to raise funds for spinal cord research? Rick Hansen
9. Who became the first French-Canadian Prime Minister since the formation of Confederation? Sir Wilfrid Laurier
10. The 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, the 15th Governor General is John Buchan
11. The current Leader of the Official Opposition? NDP Thomas Mulcair
12. First to map Canada’s Atlantic shore? John Cabot
13. First European to explore the St. Lawrence River and to set eyes on present-day Québec City and Montreal? Jacques Cartier
14. Lord Durham recommended "responsible government
15. Current Governor General David Johnston
时间与数字
* John Cabot was first to draw a map of Canada's east coast in 1497
* Hudson's Bay exclusive trading rights 1670
* British defeated French in the battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec City 1759
* Quebec Act, constitutional foudations of Canada, allowed religious freedom 1774
* The Constitutional Act, divided the province of Quebec into upper and lower Canada, 1st time legislative assemblies elected by the people, the name Canada became official, 1791
* In which year was the British Parliament prohibited from buying and selling slaves? 1807
* Abolished slavery throughout the Empire. 1833
* Ottawa was chosen as the Capital in 1857 by Queen Victoria
* British North America Act 1867
* Peace, Order and Good Government 1867
* Vimy Day? April 9
* Women's suffrage movement, Manitoba became the 1st province to grant voting rights to women. 1916
* OAS was devised 1927
* EI was introduced 1940
* QPP 1965
* The Canadians fought bravely and suffered losses in the unsuccessful defence of Hong Kong (1941) from attack by Imperial Japan, and in a failed raid on Nazi-controlled Dieppe on the coast of France (1942).
* Over 130,000 Allied air crew trained in Canada under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
* D-Day (June 6, 1944)
* Japanese Canadian gained the right to vote in 1948, Aboriginal people were granted the vote in 1960.
* Quiet Revolution 1960s
* Official Languages Act 1969
* In the 1970s, the term First Nations began to be used.
* The Constitution of Canada was amended in 1982 to entrench the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which begins with the words, “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.”
* Federal elections must be held on the third Monday in October every four years following the most recent general election.
* What is celebrated on the 15th of February? National Flag of Canada Day