1. Former PM Jean Chrétien wanted to re-name Canada’s highest peak after Pierre Trudeau, but after considerable pushback reverted to this original name.
2. The highest Canadian peak is part of this remote mountain range in the southwestern Yukon.
3. This port on Hudson’s Bay, which has shipped grain to Russia and might one day ship other commodities, is home to a large community of polar bears.
4. When he sailed past it, Jacques Cartier called this part of Canada: “The land God gave to Cain”.
5. When he reached the mouth of this longest of Canadian rivers this explorer called it the River of Disappointment. The river is now named after him.
6. Business tycoon Donald A. Smith drove in the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Queen Victoria honoured him with a peerage, after which he was known by this name.
7. This former leader of the Dene Nation in the Northwest Territories co-led a comprehensive Royal Commission on Aboriginal peoples that reported in 1996.
8. John Diefenbaker appointed this woman to his cabinet in 1957. She was the first woman federal cabinet minister in Canada.
9. This singer, known by her first name only, hosted a popular CBC TV show that followed Saturday night hockey games for many years.
10. This woman, originally from the Abitibi region of Northwest Quebec, was the first female mayor of Montreal.
11. The current Montreal mayor, whose name is this, is the second woman.
12. This popular mayor of Ottawa could not get elected to Parliament as an NDPer in Ottawa, so she sought and won a seat in Hamilton.
13. This husband-and-wife team from Quebec were both Liberal federal cabinet ministers. She was also Speaker of the House and Governor-General.
14. This woman was the first person of colour to become Governor-General.
15. In 1975 the Quebec and Canadian governments agreed to the first modern-day treaty, with the Cree people. It is known as this.
16. This writer, born in Nova Scotia, coined the term “Two Solitudes”.
17. This prize-winning Winnipeg author of many novels also wrote a critical study of Jane Austen.
18. This medical researcher and neurologist has a major street named after him in Montreal.
19. This leader of the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada was the first mayor of Toronto.
20. Before that leader’s grandson entered politics, he worked for this multi-billionaire American family business, in industrial relations.
21. The federal election of 1921 saw something unprecedented in Canadian history. This party, not the Liberal or Conservative party, came in second place, the first time for a third party.
22. This prodigy jazz singer from Montreal sang the theme song for the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 when she was only a teenager.
23. When this long-distance swimmer entered a race to swim a mile in Lake Ontario, at age 10, she had never swum in a lake before.
24. This successful Canadian actress, whose many Hollywood credits include Spotlight and Midnight in Paris, lives in Toronto (not LA or New York) and is an environmental and social activist.
25. This feminist leader, prominent in the 1980s and 1990s, wrote a bestselling memoir that focuses on her multiple personality disorder.
26. At the 1968 Liberal leadership convention this cabinet minister was filmed saying to one of the leadership aspirants: “You cannot let that bastard win”.
27. Ontario Provincial Police shot and killed Indigenous activist Dudley George at the site of this former Ontario Provincial Park.
28. This brother of a Canadian governor general played Abe Lincoln in a Hollywood movie.
29. In 1970, director Don Shebib released this seminal Canadian film about two Nova Scotians who leave home to seek their fortunes in Toronto.
30. In Quebec, the popular fresh-water game and food fish other Canadians call walleye or pickerel is known by this name.
31. This Canadian jazz singer was raised in Russia and Israel.
32. This popular American rapper wrote and performed songs attacking the reputation of Toronto singing star Drake.
33. Drake performed in this TV series as a child actor.
34. This one-time star of the same TV show later starred, in New York, in the Broadway show Beautiful.
35. The period during which this Premier governed Quebec has become known as la grande noirceur.
36. This first Alberta Social Credit Premier entered public life as a radio evangelist.
37. This journalist who later became a prominent right-of-centre columnist for Sun newspapers defeated Liberal über cabinet minister C.D. Howe in the 1957 election, in a northwest Ontario riding.
38. Thunder Bay was formed by the merger of these two towns.
39. Prior to being known as Kitchener this southwest Ontario town had this name.
40. Before the capital and largest city of Manitoba got its current name, it was a fort, known as this.
41. This natural feature was what first attracted government authorities to create Banff National Park.
42. The Lost Patrol of 1910 involved four officers attempting to travel 600 kilometres from this small Gwich’in community in the NWT to Dawson City in the Yukon, in the dead of winter. They did not take an Indigenous guide and they all perished.
43. This Québec television personality hosted a popular talk show before she ran for and won a seat in the National Assembly in the 1976 Quebec election. Newly-elected Parti Québécois Premier René Lévesque put her in his first cabinet.
44. This Ottawa-born singer and songwriter wrote English words to the French song “Comme d’habitude”, which became a big hit for Frank Sinatra.
45. This Montreal Canadiens goalie gave his name to the annual trophy the NHL hands out to the best goalie.
46. This Canadian opera singer of Greek origin performed in 41 roles over 385 performances for the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
47. One of this Québécoise singer’s most beloved songs is “L’Homme de Ma Vie”.
48. In 1972 this novelist and poet published a book about Canadian literature called “Survival”.
49. In 1986 this Canadian Prime Minister was a key player in getting the Commonwealth to impose sanctions on the South African Apartheid regime.
Canada-facts quiz answers
1. Mt Logan
2. The St Elias Range
3. Churchill
4. Labrador
5. Mackenzie River
6. Lord Strathcona
7. George Erasmus
8. Ellen Fairclough.
9. Juliette
10. Valérie Plante
11. Soraya Martinez Ferrada
12. Marion Dewar.
13. Maurice and Jeanne Sauvé.
14. Adrienne Clarkson.
15. James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement.
16. Hugh MacLennan
17. Carol Shields.
18. Wilder Penfield.
19. William Lyon Mackenzie.
20. Rockefeller family.
21. Progressive Party (or United Farmers).
22. Nikki Yanofsky.
23. Marilyn Bell.
24. Rachel McAdams.
25. Judy Rebick.
26. Judy LaMarsh.
27. Ipperwash.
28. Raymond Massey.
29. Goin’ Down the Road.
30. Doré.
31. Sophie Milman.
32. Kendrick Lamar.
33. The Kids of Degrassi Street / Degrassi Junior High / Degrassi, the Next Generation.
34. Jake Epstein.
35. Maurice Duplessis.
36. William “Bible Bill” Aberhart
37. Doug Fisher.
38. Port Arthur and Fort William.
39. Berlin.
40. Fort Garry.
41. The hot springs.
42. Fort McPherson (Teetl’it Zheh).
43. Lise Payette.
44.Paul Anka.
45. Georges Vézina.
46. Teresa Stratas.
47. Diane Dufresne.
48. Margaret Atwood.
49. Brian Mulroney.
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