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Beginning in the 1960s, this province underwent a transformation known as the "Quiet Revolution". | Québec | 88%
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Created in 1999, it's Canada's newest northern territory. | Nunavut | 78%
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They established a settlement at L'Anse-aux-Meadows, Newfoundland, circa 1000 A.D. | Vikings | 72%
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This French explorer was the first European to navigate the St. Lawrence River. | Jacques Cartier | 68%
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This ethnic population is descended from indigenous peoples and European settlers. | Métis | 57%
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First appearing on a Portuguese map in 1519, this city is now the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador. | St. John's | 57%
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This conflict was officially ended with the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. | War of 1812 | 54%
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This national transportation link was completed in 1885. | Canadian Pacific Railway | 52%
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Ambassador Ken Taylor co-ordinated the escape of U.S. hostages from this country in 1979. | Iran | 51%
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In 1917, this city was largely destroyed by what was then the world's largest man-made explosion. | Halifax | 46%
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In 1896, he was elected Canada's first French-speaking Prime Minister. | Sir Wilfrid Laurier | 45%
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Canadian troops stormed this landing site in Normandy on the morning of June 6, 1944. | Juno Beach | 41%
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"Gold fever" lured 100,000 prospectors to this region of the Yukon Territory between 1896 and 1899. | The Klondike | 39%
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Scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered this life-saving drug in the early 1920s. | Insulin | 35%
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In 1992, Dr. Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman to travel here. | Space | 34%
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This battlefield outside the walls of Québec City saw French forces under the command of the Marquis de Montcalm fall to British troops led by General James Wolfe in 1759. | Plains of Abraham | 29%
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This Iroquoian village was located on the site of present-day Montréal. | Hochelaga | 22%
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Employed by the Hudson's Bay and North West companies, these traders were renowned for their physical strength and endurance. | Voyageurs | 17%
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This traditional gift-giving feast of the Haida people was banned for more than 50 years. | Potlatch | 8%
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Alarmed by burgeoning costs, Louis XV joked about seeing the towers of this colonial stronghold from his palace at Versailles. | Fortress of Louisbourg | 5%
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Crowfoot, Poundmaker, and Big Bear were all 19th-century _____? | Native chiefs | 4%
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