Canada in the Interwar Period

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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? league suspension fire influenza theft

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 insulin the discovery of human blood groups discoveries relating to tuberculosis the discovery of penicillin

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? Canada had to close its open-door policy regarding immigration Quebec women were to be allowed to marry men of English descent First Nations people must be allowed to vote Women were "qualified persons" under the law

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? Dionne Pronovost Lavigne Belanger

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

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

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