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Canada in the Interwar Period

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Canada in the Interwar Period game quiz
"This quiz looks at people and events in Canadian history between the two World Wars. The Roaring Twenties and Dirty Thirties in Canada were similar to the same era in the US, but there were many uniquely Canadian experiences, too."

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1. Immediately following the First World War, many Canadians began to express their displeasure about unemployment, working conditions and inflation. In which Canadian city did a large-scale strike take place during the spring of 1919?
    Winnipeg
    Victoria
    Fredericton
    Kingston


2. 1919 marked the first year since its inception that the Stanley Cup was not awarded. What was the primary reason for this?
    influenza
    theft
    fire
    league suspension


3. In 1923, Canadian scientist Frederick Banting and a Scottish physiologist working at the University of Toronto, J.J.R. Macleod, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. For what?
    the discovery of penicillin
    discoveries relating to tuberculosis
    the discovery of insulin
    the discovery of human blood groups


4. Prohibition began earlier in some parts of Canada than it did in the United States.
    True
    False


5. In 1929, the Privy Council of the United Kingdom overturned a decision that had been made by the Supreme Court of Canada, on a case that had been brought forward by "the Famous Five". What did the Privy council decide?
    Women were "qualified persons" under the law
    First Nations people must be allowed to vote
    Canada had to close its open-door policy regarding immigration
    Quebec women were to be allowed to marry men of English descent


6. The Statute of Westminster (1931) granted legislative independence to Canada and five other dominions of the United Kingdom.
    True
    False


7. On 28 May 1934, the world's first set of quintuplets known to survive infancy were born in Callander, Ontario. What was their surname?
    Lavigne
    Belanger
    Pronovost
    Dionne


8. Who were the main participants in the On-to-Ottawa Trek of 1935?
    teachers from the Eastern provinces
    suffragettes
    working-class men
    female university students


9. From 1936 onwards, who began his CBC broadcasts with "Hello Canada, and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland."?
    Foster Hewitt
    Rene Lecavalier
    Joseph Goudie
    Pierre Brassard


10. What did the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion do?
    led acts of violence against Native reservations
    killed several people during the suppression of civil disobedience on Parliament Hill
    kidnapped Members of Parliament
    fought in the Spanish Civil War


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