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