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Choose a category to show related flashcards.Skip Navigation LinksA famous Inuit artist. She made modern Inuit art, like prints and soapstone sculptures.
The "Father of Manitoba". He fought with the Métis of Red River against Canada for taking over their land near Winnipeg. He was later sentenced and killed for fighting against Canada.
The Métis' greatest military leader.
North West Mounted Police (NWMP). They founded Fort Calgary.
1920s: A famous group of Canadian landscape painters who painted the wilderness in Canada.
A member of the Group of Seven from British Columbia. She painted images from Aboriginal culture and the West Coast forests.
A member of the Group of Seven. His most famous painting is called "The Jack Pine".
A group of artists from Quebec.
A member of Les Automatistes from Quebec. He was an abstract painter.
A famous sculptor from Quebec. He made historical sculptures.
Name 3 Canadian filmmakers
(1) Denys Arcand (2) Norman Jewison (3) Atom Egoyan
1891: He invented basketball.
A great Canadian hockey player. He played for the Edmonton Oilers.
She wona a gold medial in speed skating at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
A double Olympic gold medalist and a world record sprinter.
He was an Olympic gold medalist. He is also an important activist for gay and lesbian Canadians.
A world wheelchair racer and Paralympic champion.
He lost his right leg to cancer when he was 18 years old. He began a cross-country run across Canada to raise money for Cancer research.
1985: He went around the world in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord research
1909: Governor General. The Grey Cup is named after him.
An Olympic medial winning track and field champion during the late 1920's and 1930s.
• First Prime Minister of Canada (1867 - 1873) • Father of Confederation
3 Fathers of Confederation
(1) Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché
(2) Sir George-Étienne Cartier
(3) Sir John A. Macdonald.
Sir George-Étienne Cartier
A "Father of Confederation". He was important in making confederation happen by helping get Quebec, the Northwest Territories, Manitoba and British Columbia join Canada.
Sir Frederick Banting & Charles Best
Canadians who discovered insulin.
Canadian inventor. Thought of the idea of the telephone.
Canadian inventor. He invented the snowmobile. The snowmobile was the first light-weight winter vehicle.
Canadian inventor. He invented the worldwide system of time zones.
Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward
They worked together to invent the first electric light bulb. They later sold the patent to Thomas Edison, who is famous for making the light bulb available for commercial sale.
Canadian inventor who helped to invent the radio by sending the first wireless voice message.
He was a brain surgeon at McGill University in Montreal. He helped to discover new ways to do surgery.
He invented the Pacemaker, which can send electrical impulses to the heart to help the heart to beat correctly.
SPAR Aerospace/National Research Council
They invented the Canadarm. The Canadarm is a big robotic arm that attaches to a spacecraft. It helps astronauts to do work in space.
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie
They are each famous for being a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Research in Motion (RIM), a wireless communications company that produced the BlackBerry.
Marshall McLuhan & Harold Innis
Famous Canadian thinkers in the area of communication.
Name 7 Canadian Nobel Prize-winning scientists
(1) Gerhard Herzberg (a refugee from Nazi Germany) (2) Frederick G. Banting (3) John Polanyi (4) Sidney Altman (5) Richard E. Taylor (6) Michael Smith (7) Bertram Brockhouse
1935 - 1940: Governer General of Canada who believed in Unity in Diversity
A Canadian Olympian who is descendent of black Loyalists.
The leader of the women's suffrage movement in Canada. The first Canadian woman to practice medicine.
1940: She helped the women of Quebec to get the vote.
1921: She was the first woman to be a Member of Parliament (MP).
A world-famous Canadian geologist. Mount Logan is named after him.
Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine
Sir Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine was the first leader of a responsible government in Canada in 1849.
• First French Canadian Prime Minister (1896 - 1911)
• He encouraged immigration to the West
• His portrait is on the $5 bill
• Prime Minister (1911 - 1920) • Gave women the right to vote in federal elections
Current Prime Minister (Head of Government, 2015 - present).
The Current Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau.
The Current Governor General
The Chief Justice of Canada is currently serving as the administrator of the Government of Canada until such a time as the next governor general is installed.
He was the first black man to be awarded the Victoria Cross.
1943: He earned his Victoria Cross in the Second World War.
He was a flying ace. He earned his Victoria Cross during the First World War.
He was not born in the British Empire. He earned his Victoria Cross during the First World War.
Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn
1854: He was the first Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross.
Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray
He was the last Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross until now.
Pierre de Monts & Samuel de Champlain
1604: French explorers who made a European settlement in what is now Canada.
Late 17th - Early 18th Centuries: A great hero of New France who fought against the British
1782 - 1783: A British man who helped the Loyalists to move from the United States to Nova Scotia and Quebec
Lieutenant Governor John Graves
1793: Helped make slavery illegal in Upper Canada. Also the founder of the city of York (Toronto).
1812 - 1814: A Shawnee Aboriginal chief who helped defend Canada when Canada was fighting against the U.S.A.
Major-General Sir Isaac Brock
1812 - 1814: A French-Canadian who helped capture the city of Detroit when Canada and the U.S.A. were at war.
1813: She made a dangerous 19 mile (30 km) journey on foot to warn Canadians of a planned U.S.A. attack.
1814: He helped found Ottawa (Canada's capital)
1910 - 1936: He was the King of England. He also decided that Canada's colours should be white and red.
1837 - 1901: Queen Elizabeth II’s great-great-grandmother.
The face on the $1 bill (1923)
King George V.
1901 - 1910: Queen Elizabeth II’s great-grandfather.
1910 - 1936: Queen Elizabeth II’s grandfather.
1936: Queen Elizabeth II’s uncle.
1936 - 1952: Queen Elizabeth II’s father.
1952 - present: The current queen, Queen Elizabeth II
Another name for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
Major General Sir Sam Steele
A famous Canadian member of the RCMP, frontier hero and a soldier of the Queen.
Another name for Donald Smith, the director of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).
General Sir Arthur Currie
Canada's greatest soldier in World War 1. He helped Canada win the Battle of Amiens.
