It's not Canada Day without a Canadian history quiz.
This quiz is some of the best questions from Citizen Canadian quizzes of years past, along with some new brainteasers (thanks to The Exploration Place's 100 PG Icons online exhibition), to hopefully inspire some Maple Leaf (and Prince George) patriotism.
The answers are at the bottom of the page.
Questions:
1. What is the longest railway bridge in B.C. and where is it?
2. Which downtown building was the previous location of the downtown branch of the Prince George Public Library (the after-hours book drop slot can still be seen by the front door)?
3. Canada has four of the 10 largest lakes in the world. Name them.
4. Who was the publisher of the first newspaper in Fort George?
5. The Giscome Portage linking Huble Homestead to Summit Lake is named after John Robert Giscome. In which country 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 that is named after one of Canada's patron saints.
8. Who is the longest serving mayor in Prince George history?
9. What is the proper way to dispose of a worn-out Canadian flag?
10. What happened for the first time in Prince George on Aug. 3, 1920?
11. Name the woman who passed away in Prince George on March 16, 1966 at the age of 114.
12. Who ran his first marathon in Prince George in 1979?
13. What arrived for the first time in Fort George on May 23, 1912?
14. What year did Northern Hardware sell its first vacuum cleaner?
15. Where did the wood come from to make the gavel that the mayor of Prince George uses to call meetings to order?
16. What year was the dollar bill replaced by the loonie?
17. What year was the two-dollar bill replaced by the toonie?
18. What was the previous use of the building that was rented to house Prince George's first City Hall?
19. The Exploration Place has a piano in its collection that was once owned by Irene Jordan. Who was Irene Jordan?
20. Who came to Canada at age 19 from Berneval Le Grand, Dieppe, France in 1654?
Answers:
1. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway bridge that crosses the Fraser River in Prince George.
2. The Seniors Activity Centre at Fourth and Brunswick.
3. Lake Superior (second largest), Lake Huron (fourth largest), Great Bear Lake (eighth largest) and Great Slave Lake (tenth largest).
4. John Houston first published a newspaper in Fort George on Nov. 5, 1909. Houston was the town of Nelson's first mayor and the town of Houston carries his name today.
5. Jamaica.
6. It crosses the Continental Divide.
7. Jean de Brebeuf.
8. A.M. Patterson, from 1927 to 1944. Patterson Street is named after him.
9. Burn it.
10. A plane landed. It was a U.S. Army flight that was heading from New York to Alaska and it landed roughly where Highway 97 is today.
11. Margaret Mary Boucher, better known as Granny Seymour.
12. Terry Fox.
13. An automobile.
14. 1919.
15. From the sternwheeler Conveyor, which worked the Skeena and Fraser Rivers before it was retired in 1914.
16. 1987.
17. 1996.
18. A brothel.
19. She was a local brothel operator. Prince George's first mayor, W.G. Gillett, rented one of her houses to serve as the first City Hall.
20. Nicolas Godbout, my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grand-father.
Happy 149th birthday, Canada!
