Who we Are

Question 1

Where did the ancestors of Aboriginal peoples migrate from?

Answer 1

Asia

Question 2

Where are aboriginal and treaty rights?

Answer 2

The Canadian Constitution

Question 3

How were territorial rights first guaranteed ?

Answer 3

Through the Royal Proclamation of 1763 by King George III.

Question 4

How did the federal government try to educate and assimilate Aboriginal children into mainstream Canadian culture?

Answer 4

From the 1800s until the 1980s, the federal government placed many Aboriginal children in residential schools

Question 5

When did Ottowa formally apologize to their wrongful treatment of Aboriginal children?

Answer 5

2008

Question 6

What 3 groups are included in the term Aboriginal peoples?

Answer 6

1. Indian
2. Inuit
3. Metis

Question 7

What does the term Indian refer to?

Answer 7

Aboriginal people who are not Inuit or Metis

Question 8

When did the term Indian change and what did it change to?

Answer 8

1970s to First Nations

Question 9

Where do First Nations people live today?

Answer 9

About half live on reserve land in about 600 communities while the other half live off-reserve, mainly in urban centres.

Question 10

What does Inuit mean?

Answer 10

“The people” in the Inuktitut language

Question 11

Where do Inuit people live?

Answer 11

They live in small, scattered communities across the Arctic.

Question 12

Where do Metis people live?

Answer 12

The Métis are a distinct people of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry, the majority of whom live in the Prairie provinces. They come from both French- and English-speaking backgrounds and speak their own dialect, Michif.

Question 13

What is the distribution of Aboriginal people into the three groupings?

Answer 13

65% First Nations
30% Metis
4% Inuit

Question 14

Who was John Buchan?

Answer 14

the 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, a popular Governor General of Canada

Question 15

What are Canada’s official Languages?

Answer 15

English and French

Question 16

How many Anglophones and Francophones are there?

Answer 16

18 million Anglophones
7 million Francophones

Question 17

Where do majority of Francophones live?

Answer 17

While the majority of Francophones live in the province of Quebec, one million Francophones live in Ontario, New Brunswick and Manitoba, with a smaller presence in other provinces.

Question 18

Which is the only official billingual provine?

Answer 18

New Brunswick

Question 19

Who are the Acadians?

Answer 19

Descendants of French colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime provinces in 1604.

Question 20

Who are Quebecers?

Answer 20

People of Quebec, the vast majority French-speaking. Most are descendants of 8,500 French settlers from the 1600s and 1700s.

Question 21

Why are Anglophones referred to as English Canadians?

Answer 21

the basic way of life in English-speaking areas was established by hundreds of thousands of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish settlers, soldiers and migrants from the 1600s to the 20th century.

Question 22

What are the largest ethnic groups in Canada?

Answer 22

English, French, Scottish, Irish, German, Italian, Chinese, Aboriginal, Ukrainian, Dutch, South Asian and Scandinavian.

Question 23

Where have most immigrants come from since 1970s?

Answer 23

Asian countries

Question 24

What is the second most spoken language at home after English in Vancouver and Toronto?

Answer 24

Chinese

Question 25

What religion do majority of Canadians identify as?

Answer 25

Christian