10.16 Yukon

#1. Who founded the Geological Survey of Canada?

Alexander Graham Bell

Sir Frederick Banting

Dr. Wilder Penfield

Sir William Logan

#2. Which industry plays a significant part in Yukon’s economy?

Mining

Manufacturing

Agriculture

Fishing

#3. What is Mount Logan?

The highest mountain in Alberta

The highest mountain in Canada

The highest mountain in British Columbia

The smallest mountain in Canada

#4. Where was Sir William Logan, the world-famous geologist after whom Canada’s highest mountain is named, born?

Toronto

Montreal

Nanaimo

Yukon

#5. What is the coldest recorded temperature in Canada?

-83 °C

-53 °C

-63 °C

-93 °C

#6. White Pass and Yukon Railway connects Skagway in Alaska to Whitehorse in Yukon.

True

False

#7. What is White Pass and Yukon Railway famous for?

White Poutine

A spectacular tourist excursion across precipitous passes and bridges

Bear trails

Beaver trails

#8. Whose poems celebrated the thousands of miners who came to Yukon during the Gold Rush?

William Henry Drummond

E. Pauline Johnson

Robert W. Service

Archibald Lampman

#9. Where was the coldest temperature in Canada recorded?

Whitehorse

Yukon

Edmonton

Skagway

#10. When did the gold rush happen in Yukon?

1890s

1660s

1760s

1960s

#11. Who was Sir William Logan?

A world-famous musician

A world-famous clinician

A world-famous geologist

A world-famous novelist

#12. After whom is Canada’s highest mountain named?

Alexander Graham Bell

Princess Louise Alberta

Sir John A. Macdonald

Sir William Logan

#13. When did Sir William Logan found and direct the Geological Survey of Canada?

1776-1800

1842-1869

1814-1877

1867-1902

#14. Sir William Logan founded and directed the Geological Survey of Canada from 1842 to 1869.

True

False

#15. When did the White Pass and Yukon Railway open?

2000

1900

1700

1800

#16. What was the heritage of Sir William Logan?

Finnish

English

Scottish

Irish

#17. Where is Mount Logan located?

Yukon

British Columbia

Montreal

Alberta

#18. What scenic connection exists between the capital of Yukon, Whitehorse, and Skagway in Alaska?

Trans-Canada Highway

Rocky Mountains

The White Pass and Yukon Railways

St. Lawrence River

#19. When was the Geological Survey of Canada established?

1842

1840

1843

1841

#20. Where is the highest mountain in Canada located?

British Columbia

Alberta

Yukon

Quebec

Results

#1. Who founded the Geological Survey of Canada?

#2. Which industry plays a significant part in Yukon’s economy?

#3. What is Mount Logan?

#4. Where was Sir William Logan, the world-famous geologist after whom Canada’s highest mountain is named, born?

#5. What is the coldest recorded temperature in Canada?

#6. White Pass and Yukon Railway connects Skagway in Alaska to Whitehorse in Yukon.

#7. What is White Pass and Yukon Railway famous for?

#8. Whose poems celebrated the thousands of miners who came to Yukon during the Gold Rush?

#9. Where was the coldest temperature in Canada recorded?

#10. When did the gold rush happen in Yukon?

#11. Who was Sir William Logan?

#12. After whom is Canada’s highest mountain named?

#13. When did Sir William Logan found and direct the Geological Survey of Canada?

#14. Sir William Logan founded and directed the Geological Survey of Canada from 1842 to 1869.

#15. When did the White Pass and Yukon Railway open?

#16. What was the heritage of Sir William Logan?

#17. Where is Mount Logan located?

#18. What scenic connection exists between the capital of Yukon, Whitehorse, and Skagway in Alaska?

#19. When was the Geological Survey of Canada established?

#20. Where is the highest mountain in Canada located?