katchewan did not become a part of Canada until 1905.
11. Although Newfoundland was the first part of Canada to be explored by Europeans, it was the last to become a province. Newfoundland was its own country when it joined Confederation with Canada in 1949.
12. Our first prime minister was Sir John A. MacDonald.
13. Canada was the first country in the Commonwealth to give women the vote in 1921. However, the right was not yet extended to Asian and Indig- enous women.
14. In Flanders Fields was written by World War I Lt-Col. John McCrae, a pilot and Canadian veteran of the Second Boer War. He wrote the poem to express his admiration for the cour- age of his fallen comrades as he looked at the poppies swaying in the wind around the markers for the dead.
15. In 1943, Ottawa designated a hospital room as Dutch territory so Princess Margaret could be born a full Dutch citizen, a requirement to keep her title.
16. Every year the Netherlands sends Canada thousands of tulips to show their gratitude. Te tulips can be viewed at Ottawa’s annual Canadian Tulip Festival.
17. Whisky war at Hans Island. Can- ada and Denmark have been fighting over an uninhabited island since the 1930s in a relatively polite manner by leaving each other bottles of alcohol and changing each other’s flags.
18. Our current flag was not our offi- cial flag until 1965. Approximately 13
flags flew before our maple leaf.
19. O Canada. Calixa Lavallée was commissioned to create the music to which lyrics were written by Judge Sir Adophe-Basile Routhier in 1880. O Canada was first sung in English Canada in 1901.
20. Several versions of O Canada and others such as Te Maple Leaf For Ever were bandied about before the entire piece was published in 1906 as O Canada in both French and Eng- lish. Te current version was adopted as our national anthem in 1980.
Indigenous people
21. Te indigenous people of Canada have been classified into seven main groups: Northwest Coastal, Plateau, Plains, Eastern Woodland–hunters, Easter Woodland–farmers and Inuit
peoples, which can be further broken down into the First Nations belonging to each group.
22. Indigenous people involved in agriculture formed permanent settle- ments while groups who relied on hunting were more mobile following food sources. Teir diverse and rich cultures include different ceremonial practices and beliefs, political issues, social hierarchies and trading net- works between bands.
23. Metis are descendants of mixed blood from the mid-17th century when First Nation and Inuit people married Europeans.
24. Nunavut was formed from part of the Northwest Territories in 1999. Te
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