Canadian Government Trivia

1. On October 25, 2010 Rob Ford was elected mayor of which Canadian city?

From Quiz Rob Ford Has Enough To Eat At Home

Answer: Toronto

Municipal elections in Toronto are held on the fourth Monday of October. Ford won the election with a popular vote percentage of 47.1 while defeating both George Smitherman and Joe Pantalone. He became known as the mayor that represented the "common man".

From Quiz How to vote in British Columbia

Answer: The Elections BC website

http://www3.elections.bc.ca is the site with the most reliable information about election results. The website also breaks down how many people voted on each day of voting. The District Electoral Office is where the candidates go to wait for voting results.

From Quiz Alberta's First Premier: Alexander Rutherford

Answer: Education

Rutherford was a public education advocate and he retained the ministry of Education for himself when he formed a government in 1905. He would later serve as chancellor of the University of Alberta. StetsonHat

From Quiz If this be justice...

Answer: Beverley McLachlin

Justice McLachlin became a member of the Supreme Court of Canada in March 1989 (she was previously Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia). She was appointed Chief Justice on January 7, 2000.

From Quiz Canadian Prime Ministers

Answer: Kim Campbell

Kim Campbell served as Canada's first female Prime Minister from June 25 1993 to November 4 1993. She was the first Prime Minister to have been born in British Columbia. She was awarded the Queens Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, and Queen's Council. Before her term as Prime Minister she was a lawyer, university professor, diplomat and writer.

From Quiz Colourful Canadian Politicians

Answer: John Macdonald

Sir John Alexander Macdonald, the first prime minister (1867-1891, but with a 5-year gap), has always had a unique place in Canadian politics. No public figure nowadays could get away with his heavy drinking and scandalous connections with business interests. He always claimed he could function better drunk than his opponents could sober!

From Quiz Boring Canadian Politicians #2

Answer: Eric Nielsen

Eric was, during Brian Mulroney's term, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. After his death the airport in Whitehorse was renamed in his honour. Brother Leslie is well-known for his roles in movies such as "Forbidden Planet" and "Airplane".

From Quiz Boring Canadian Politicians #1

Answer: The first Mayor of Toronto

Born in Scotland, MacKenzie was known for his fiery temper. His disillusionment with the progress of democracy in colonial Canada led him to become one of the leaders of the Rebellion of 1837.

From Quiz Interesting Runners-Up in Canadian Elections

Answer: 1874, Accepting bribery from railroad company during the last election campaign

Macdonald's strong support of Canadian intercontinental railroad that connected the Canadian provinces across the country earned him much credit for successfully uniting Canada. However, his active involvement in railroad construction projects once went too far when they involved bribery in the incident that would be known as the Pacific Scandal. Ultimately, Macdonald returned to power in 1878 when the Liberal successor's lack of progress in building the railroad threatened a potential break-up of the country, as British Columbia warned a possibility of secession if the promise to build the railroad were not kept.

From Quiz Richard Bedford Bennett

Answer: 1870, New Brunswick

Bennett died in England on June 26, 1947, and is the only Canadian prime minister not buried in Canada.

From Quiz Jean Chretien

Answer: 1934

Jean Chrétien was born on the eleventh of January. His mother and father were Wellie Chrétien and Marie Boisvert of Shawinigan, Quebec. Jean was the eighteenth child of the Chretien family.

From Quiz William Lyon Mackenzie King

Answer: 1874

William Lyon MacKenzie King was born December 17, 1874 into a Presbyterian family in Kitchener, Ontario. His father was an unsuccessful lawyer and his mother was the daughter of the 1837 rebel, William Lyon MacKenzie.

From Quiz Canada's First Prime Minister

Answer: Alexander

Alexander means "protector of man kind". He actually has the middle name Maxwell as well, but it isn't often mentioned.

From Quiz Canadian Prime Ministers of the 1890s

Answer: Sir John Thompson

He was passed over once before for Prime Minister because of his religion.

From Quiz History of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs

Answer: 1909

On 01 June, 1909 the legislation was passed creating the department of External Affairs.

From Quiz Who Were These Canadian Prime Ministers?

Answer: William Lyon Mackenzie King

Mackenzie King, grandson of rebel William Lyon Mackenzie, was born in Berlin, Ontario. In 1916, Berlin changed its name to Kitchener because of anti German feelings due to World War I.

From Quiz The Canadian Rhinoceros Party

Answer: 1963

The party was founded in 1963 by a group of Quebecois including Robert Charlebois and François Gourd.

From Quiz Fractured Canadian Prime Ministers

Answer: Jean Chretien & Jean Chrétien

Jean Chrétien was prime minister of Canada from 1993-2003. He represented the Liberal party, but has also held positions as deputy prime minister and minister of finance.

From Quiz Canadian Politics 2004

Answer: Liberal

It was a tight election campaign between the Liberals and Conservatives, but the Liberals hung on to win their fourth straight term.

From Quiz Prime Ministers of Canada

Answer: John A. Macdonald

John A. Macdonald was born in Scotland but came over to Canada when he was five. He died while Prime Minister at the age of 76.

From Quiz Canadian Prime Ministers

Answer: Liberal-Conservative

Macdonald's party, one which he created, was a combination of both Liberal and Conservative elements, even though the concept seems oxymoronic.

From Quiz Canadian Governors-General

Answer: Viscount Monck

Monck (Governor-General 1867-68) had previously been Governor of the United Province of Canada (1861-67). He actively promoted Confederation and had his term extended in order that he could become Canada's first Governor-General. He has been called an "uncredited Father of Confederation".

From Quiz Lester B. Pearson - Canada's 14th Prime Minister

Answer: Mike

Lester B. Pearson was a stretcher-bearer in World War I.

From Quiz Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919 - 2000)

Answer: Joseph Phillippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau

From Quiz Canadian Prime Minister Scandals

Answer: Sir John A. Macdonald

One of the conditions under which British Columbia entered the Dominion of Canada (1871) was that a railway to link that province with the east be constructed within 10 years. In 1872 a contract for construction of such a railway was awarded to a syndicate headed by Sir Hugh Allan, a Canadian shipowner and financier. Allan was a heavy contributor to the Conservative campaign in the 1872 election, and Macdonald's Liberal opponents accused him of having awarded the contract in return for this financial support (April 1873). The charges led to the resignation of the Macdonald government on November 5 and to the cancellation of the contract.

From Quiz Alberta's First Premier: Alexander Rutherford

Answer: George H. V. Bulyea

George Bulyea was Alberta's first Lieutenant-Governor (pronounced lef-ten-ant)and the youngest. Sir Wilfrid Laurier was Canada's first French Canadian Prime Minister. Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey was the 9th Governor General of Canada, who appointed Bulyea to the position. Arthur Sifton succeeded Rutherford as premier of Alberta. Trufflesss

From Quiz Canadian Prime Ministers

Answer: John A. Macdonald

John A. Macdonald was Canada's very first Prime Minister, although his period in office actually included two terms (1867-73 and 1878-91), with the second PM (Alexander Mackenzie) in between. Among the honours he gained were the Grand Cross in the Order of the Bath, the Order of St. Michael and St George, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

From Quiz Colourful Canadian Politicians

Answer: Mackenzie King

William Lyon Mackenzie was the first mayor of the new city of Toronto, was tossed out of the Legislature of Upper Canada several times, even though he had been elected to a seat! He was a firebrand newspaper editor, and had to leave the country for a time after the failed Rebellion in 1837. Naturally one of his daughter named her only son after her charismatic father. William Lyon Mackenzie King was always called Willie by his parents and sisters. He is still Canada's longest-serving prime minister, and he held office for 22 years between 1921 and 1948. Political colleagues called him Mackenzie, or Mac if they were daring. He never married, so no one knows what name a wife would have preferred.

From Quiz Boring Canadian Politicians #2

Answer: "Hurricane" Hazel McCallion

Hurricane Hazel became Mayor of Mississauga in 1978. In 2010, in her mid-80s, she said that she was not yet ready to retire. Beloved by many, she has also had her share of controversies.

From Quiz Boring Canadian Politicians #1

Answer: Held séances to contact his dead mother, Leonardo Da Vinci and his dead dogs

MacKenzie King hosted the Quebec Conference with Churchill and Roosevelt. An intensely private man who became the longest serving prime minister in the Commonwealth, MacKenzie never married.

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