Happy Canada Day 2010

Beginning on July 1, 1867 the federal Dominion of Canada was formed. Canada today is a federal state from the British Empire. The Confederation was formed by the Fathers of Confederation. Sir John A. MacDonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada, whom suggested the uniting of the Province of Canada (now BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba) along with the other provinces and colonies (British Arctic; now Yukon, NWT, Nunavut) included in the Confederation; Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and PEI. Newfoundland and Labrador later joint the Confederation until 1949. The National Flag of Canada known as the Maple Leaf was adopted in 1965 to replace the Union Flag.

Canada became a country at Confederation in 1867. Our system of government is a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is Queen of Canada and the sovereign Head of State. The Governor General is the representative of the Queen in Canada.

The governor general represents Canada during State visits abroad and receives Royal visitors, heads of State and foreign ambassadors at Rideau Hall and at the Citadelle of Québec.

The governor general presents honours and awards to recognize excellence, valour, bravery and exceptional achievements. The governor general is also the head of the Canadian Heraldic Authority.

Sworn in on September 27, 2005, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean is the 27th governor general since Confederation.

Now running in his fourth year, Stephen Harper was sworn in as Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister on February 6, 2006.


Canada Day Quiz: CONTROVERSY and SCANDAL

QUESTIONS:
1) In the wake of the controversy that followed the RCMP's pepper-spraying of demonstrators at an APEC conference in Vancouver in 1997, Jean Chretien controversially said: "Pepper? I like it on my ———————"
2) Which prime minister, accused of public drunkenness after vomiting during election debates, claimed: "I get sick sometimes not because of drink or any other cause, except that I am forced to listen to the ranting of my honourable opponent."
3) After more than a decade of construction and a string of political scandals, which great Canadian engineering feat was completed in 1885 with the hammering of the Last Spike?
4) Which prime minister was photographed performing a pirouette behind Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace?
5) What was the name given to the victims of a scheme that saw several thousand orphaned children falsely determined to be mentally ill by the government of Quebec, and confined to psychiatric institutions?
6) What is the name given to the forcible resettlement by the British government of many of the original French colonists of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and P.E.I.?
7) The 1896 federal election was largely influenced by this controversy, which concerned the right of students to be educated in French, Manitoba's minority language.

ANSWERS:
1) Plate
2) Sir John A. Macdonald
3) Canadian Pacific Railroad
4) Pierre Trudeau
5) Duplessis orphans
6) Acadian Expulsion
7) Manitoba Schools Question

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