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Time in Canada

Do you have the time?
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Source: Wikipedia and CBCLearning
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Last updated: May 3, 2023
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1. The National Research Council Time Signal is:
Canada's longest running radio program ✓
A website showing the exact time in each time zone in Canada ✓
An annual timeline of deadlines for research funding applications ✓
An atomic clock at Parliament Hill, Ottawa, that is Canada's official timekeeper ✓
2. How many time zones does Canada have?
5 ✓
6 ✓
7 ✓
8 ✓
3. What's at the top of the Gastown steam clock in Vancouver?
a bell ✓
a whistle ✓
a flagpole ✓
a weathervane ✓
4. What happened in Newfoundland in 1988?
Daylight saving time was used all year ✓
Daylight saving was two hours ahead instead of one ✓
CJON-TV became the first station to broadcast 24 hours a day ✓
School hours were changed to accommodate natural teenage sleep patterns ✓
5. Scottish-Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming is best known as the inventor of what?
daylight saving ✓
the electric clock ✓
the digital pocket watch ✓
worldwide standard time ✓
6. What is Mountain Time?
A time zone ✓
A craft whisky distilled in Yukon ✓
A calendar of festivals in the western provinces ✓
A relaxed way of life in the east of British Columbia ✓
7. Which clock was on the $20 bill back when notes were made of paper?
The Peace Tower ✓
Halifax Town Clock ✓
Old City Hall, Toronto ✓
Nineteen on the Park ✓
8. What is the 9 O'Clock Gun?
A canon in Vancouver that is fired at 9 every night ✓
A hunting, angling and trapping club in Saskatchewan ✓
The Sunday church bells at the Anglican Military Ordinariate of Canada ✓
A warning shot fired into the air at 9 each night in the late 1890s by the the North-West Mounted Police in Dawson City ✓
9. Why is Canada Day celebrated in Ottawa with festivities called the "noon show"?
The Dominion of Canada was proclaimed at noon (1 July 1867) ✓
Noon is the start of the official lunch break when parliament is sitting ✓
To symbolise the 12 provinces and territories (the tradition predates Nunavut) ✓
It was programmed in the 19th century to allow farmers enough time to travel to town after milking ✓
10. Who or what are the Maritimes?
A basketball team from Labrador ✓
A renowned women's choir from Prince Edward Island ✓
The provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island ✓
Weekly tidal timesheets distributed through angling, boating and surf shops ✓
11. What is the average time it takes the Canadian Train to travel from Vancouver to Toronto?
2 days and 19.5 hours ✓
3 days and 23.5 hours ✓
4 days and 17.5 hours ✓
5 days and 9.5 hours ✓
12. Beware the sinister 7 O'Clock Man (Bonhomme Sept Heures) in Quebec. What does he do?
Wakes the town with his cockerel Soleil ✓
Kidnaps children who are not home by 7pm ✓
Flies through open windows looking for souls to carry into the night ✓
When people are at home eating dinner he releases livestock from fields, pens and barns ✓
PotatoDude
+1
Level 34
Sep 30, 2021
:)
ElCanuck
+2
Level 57
Sep 30, 2021
The Maritimes is a collection of easterly provinces (specifically New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and P.E.I.) but Canada's most easterly province, Newfoundland and Labrador, is distinct from the Maritmes collective. Given that, to say that the Maritimes is the "Canada's eastern provinces" is inaccurate.
Zupity
+2
Level 66
Sep 30, 2021
Thank you, I appreciate the advice and have fixed it
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