It's not Canada Day without the annual Citizen history quiz.
This year, we've combined the best questions of years past, along with a couple new gems, to inspire some Maple Leaf patriotism. The answers are at the bottom of the page.
1. What was the Canada Day holiday originally known as (Huble Homestead still uses this original name)?
2. When did British Columbia join Confederation?
3. What year will Prince George celebrate its centennial?
4. What year will the Prince George Citizen celebrate its centennial?
5. The Giscome Portage linking Huble Homestead to Summit Lake is named after John Robert Giscome. Where was Giscome born?
6. Why is the Giscome Portage the most historically and geographically significant trail in the region?
7. Name the street in Lower College Heights named after one of Canada's patron saints.
8. Name the longest river in Canada.
9. Name the largest lake entirely in Canada's borders.
10. Only two provinces don't touch salt water. Name them.
11. Where was The Last Spike driven to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885?
12. Who ran his first marathon in Prince George in 1979?
13. Who was the first Prime Minister born in Canada?
14. Which is the only legally bilingual province?
15. What is the Queen's representative in each province called?
16. What year was the dollar bill replaced by the loonie?
17. Who wrote the words to O Canada?
18. Who wrote the music to O Canada?
19. Which Canadian originally performed the "Hockey Song"?
20. Who came to Canada at age 19 from Berneval Le Grand, Dieppe, France in 1654?
Happy 146th birthday, Canada!
And for more Canada Day trivia, check out page 33 in today's paper.
Answers:
1. Dominion Day.
2. 1871
3. 2015
4. 2016
5. Jamaica
6. It crosses the Continental Divide
7. Jean de Brebeuf
8. Mackenzie River
9. Great Bear Lake
10. Alberta and Saskatchewan
11. Craigellachie, between Sicamous and Revelstoke
12. Terry Fox
13. John Abbott
14. New Brunswick
15. Lieutenant-Governor (and that's pronounced "Left-tenant Governor" in the British style)
16. 1987
17. Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier (these are the French lyrics; the English version was written later by Robert Stanley Weir but it is not a translation of Routhier's words)
18. Calixa Lavallee
19. Stompin' Tom Connors
20. Nicolas Godbout, my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather.
