CANADA’S HEROES AND HEROINES QUIZ

Thanks to Heather Pattullo of Delta. B.C., for coming up with this quiz to test your knowledge of some of Canada’s best-known heroes and heroines. See if you can match the deed/event with the name of a famous Canadian listed below. (Turn the page upside-down to see answers at the bottom of the page.)

1. Woman who headed Canadian production of Hawker Hurricane fighter planes flown by Canadian and Allied airmen in the Battle of Britain.

2. Man who rode the Great Wall of China in a wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord research.

3. Young man, who at 12 years old, started “Free the Children,” an organization to fight against child slavery.

4. Woman who walked 20 miles through the bush and swamps to warn British soldiers of a pending American attack in the War of 1812. (A hint would be: chocolates!)

5. Young man with an artificial leg who began in N.L, to walk across Canada to raise money for cancer research in 1981.

6. N.S. woman who fought against racial segregation in 1946 and the first woman to have her photo on a Canadian bill. (The new $10)

7. A founder of the province of Manitoba and a political leader of the Métis people seeking to preserve their rights and culture.

8. A Siksika leader’s quote: “What is life?...the flash of a firefly in the night…the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime…the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”

9. On a snowy Friday night in 1964, this woman fired up her Singer sewing machine and sewed the first Canadian flag.

10. A woman who raised sheep dogs, wrote stories and found her inspiration for painting in the tall forests and Aboriginal villages of the Pacific Coast.