How Well Do You Know Halifax?
10 Questions
| Attempts: 67
Test your knowledge about Canada's best city on the East coast, Halifax!
Questions and Answers
- 1.Hint: they are a set of treaties. Please select your answer by clicking "next."
- 2.In what year was Halifax founded?
- A.
1718
- B.
1829
- C.
1749
- D.
1901
- 3.
Who was Edward Cornwallis in relation to Halifax?- A.
Politician
- B.
Mayor
- C.
Duke
- D.
Governor
- 4.Halifax was previously known as We'kwaltijk.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.The first inhabitants of Halifax were:
- A.
The Beothuk
- B.
The Maliseet
- C.
The Mi'kmaq
- D.
The Innu
- 6.The fort built in Halifax in 1749, as a strategic plan of defence in response to the French "Louisbourg" on Cape Breton Island, is called
- 7.
What historical figure stands outside of the Halifax Public Library on Spring Garden Rd.?
- A.
Benjamin Franklin
- B.
Winston Churchill
- C.
John F. Kennedy
- D.
Napoleon
- 8.In what public park located in Halifax, once named "We'kwaltijk," holds a Mi'kmaq cultural site?
- A.
Mary Clayton Memorial Park
- B.
Victoria Park
- C.
Africville Park
- D.
Point Pleasant Park
- 9.
The Halifax Ale House located on Brunswick street was once the home to what important organization in the late 19th century??
- A.
The Halifax Poor Asylum
- B.
Inglis School
- C.
The Salvation Army
- D.
Rock Head Prison
- 10.Where the MacKay Bridge now stands was the home to many black loyalists and refugees of the War of 1812. This place was called
- 11.What were these documents called?
- A.
Peace and Land Treaties
- B.
Peace and Friendship Treaties
- C.
First Nations Treaties
- D.
Douglas Treaties
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