Modern Canada
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Modern Canada
In what year was oil discovered in Alberta, beginning Canada’s modern energy industry?
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From the postwar boom to today, modern Canada built record prosperity through trade, a web of social programs, and active engagement abroad during the Cold War and in UN peacekeeping. It also became a more open, diverse society while wrestling with Quebec’s place in Confederation, and it produced world-class artists, athletes, scientists and inventors.
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Sample questions
Where did the idea of the telephone come to Alexander Graham Bell?
Answer: At his summer house in Canada
Who invented the snowmobile, a lightweight vehicle for winter travel?
Answer: Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Who devised the system of standard time zones used around the world?
Answer: Sir Sandford Fleming
Which pair invented the first electric light bulb, then sold their patent to Thomas Edison?
Answer: Matthew Evans and Henry Woodward
Reginald Fessenden helped invent radio and sent the world’s first wireless voice message.
Answer: True
Dr. Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, was known by what nickname?
Answer: “The greatest living Canadian”
What did Dr. John A. Hopps invent?
Answer: The first cardiac pacemaker
The Canadarm, a robotic arm for use in space, was invented by SPAR Aerospace and the National Research Council.
Answer: True
Which company, founded by Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, is best known for inventing the BlackBerry?
Answer: Research in Motion (RIM)
Who discovered insulin, the diabetes treatment credited with saving 16 million lives worldwide?
Answer: Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best