3.20 A Railway from Sea to Sea – 🍁The Canadian Experience

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#1. What was the Head Tax?

A special tax on families based on their head count

A special tax on consumer goods for Chinese people

A discriminatory race-based entry fee levied on the Chinese

A discriminatory higher than ususal education fee levied on Chinese on

#2. Why did British Columbia (B.C.) join the Dominion of Canada in 1871?

Ottawa promised to build a railway to the West Coast

Ottawa promised to fund their tourism

B.C. did not have its own agricultural land

B.C. wanted RCMP protection

#3. Whose contributed the labour in the building of the CPR link to the West Coast?

British and Africans

British and Chinese

Americans

Europeans and Chinese

#4. The Chinese were subjected to discrimination even after they contributed labour to build the Canadian Pacific Railway link to the West Coast.

False

True

#5. When was the railway to the West Coast completed?

1885

1884

1886

1883

#6. Who drove the last spike to complete the railway link to the West Coast?

Lord Durham

Sir Leonard Tilley

Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona)

Lord Elgin

#7. What does CPR stand for?

Canadian Police Reserve

Canadian Prairie Reserves

Canadian Peace Reserve

Canadian Pacific Railway

#8. What is the significance of CPR’s “Ribbons of Steel”?

It shows that the CPRs railway tracks look like ribbons of steel

It signifies the fulfilment of a national dream of building a railway across Canada from sea to sea

It highlights the fact that the railway tracks of CPR are made up of steel

It is the logo of the Steel Workers Union who worked on the CPR railway lines

#9. Who was the director of the CPR when the railway link to the West Coast was completed?

Lord Durham

Sir Leonard Tilley

Lord Elgin

Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona)

#10. What do the “Ribbons of steel” signify?

CPR’s railway tracks

Logo of Steel Workers Association

Medical community

New age hair ribbons brand

#11. What discrimination did the Chinese face after they contributed labour in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Prohibitions on where they could shop

A race-based entry fee called Head Tax was levied on them

Higher tax on consumer goods for Chinese people

Refusal by locals to rent living spaces

#12. What did the completion of the railway to the West Coast signify?

A powerful symbol of industrialization

A powerful symbol of modernization

A powerful symbol of democracy

A powerful symbol of unity

#13. Who financed the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway link to the West Coast?

British investors

British and French Investors

American and British Investors

American investors

#14. When did the Government of Canada apologize to the Chinese for the Head Tax?

1996

2001

2006

2010

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