Influencial Canadians

Question 1

Nellie McClung

Answer 1

-author, politician, social activist
-part of The Famous Five
-played a significant role in the fight for women’s rights
-helped to grant women voting rights in Manitoba and Alberta

Question 2

Clifford Sifton

Answer 2

-promoted immigration to Western Canada
-former lawyer, politician, and businessman

Question 3

Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Answer 3

-prime minister of Canada
-led the Liberal Party from 1887-1919

Question 4

John A.D McCurdy

Answer 4

-pilot and former Leiatenant Governor of Nova Scotia
-first person to fly a plane Canada

Question 5

Sir Robert Borden

Answer 5

-lawyer and former Prime Minister of Canada
-led Canada during ww1
-prime minister after Laurier
-opposed to imperialism

Question 6

Gracie Annie Lockheart

Answer 6

1st women to earn a university degree

Question 7

Angles MacPhail

Answer 7

1st women to be elected as federal member of Parliment

Question 8

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 8

Archduke of Austria, Hungary and assassinated in Sarajevo by a terrorist group
-killed by Gavrilo Aprincip

Question 9

James P Whitney

Answer 9

limited the availably of french-language schooling to provinces with French minority