Chapter Eighteen: The English-Speaking Provinces since 1960

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Question 1
In the last few decades, the Atlantic provinces' economies
a. have relied heavily on manufacturing industries.
b. have remained relatively undiversified.
c. have switched from relying on agriculture and fishing to relying on tourism and recreation.
d. have actually grown in times of recession in the rest of Canada.

Question 2
Which of the following is the major difference between New Brunswick and the other Atlantic provinces?
a. New Brunswick's heavy reliance on fishing, which has greatly declined in the other Atlantic provinces
b. the separatist movement in New Brunswick
c. special subsidies for New Brunswick from the federal government
d. the ethnic and linguistic mix of New Brunswick's population

Question 3
Why have some people on Prince Edward Island feared pressures from the mainland?
a. These pressures could destroy PEI's way of life.
b. These pressures would make the development of the island too rapid.
c. These pressures would mean new development, which would ruin the island's rural charm.
d. all of the above

Question 4
Which of the following statements is not true?
a. In the early 1970s, the fishing industry in Newfoundland got an incentive to create a maximum number of short-term jobs.
b. Unemployment in Newfoundland increased rapidly in the early 1990s.
c. The root cause of the dependence on government aid in Newfoundland in the 1980s were the rapidly shrinking fish stocks.
d. Employment in the fishing industry in Newfoundland attained a peak in 1988: 90,000 jobs.

Question 5
In 1993, what did MacMillan Bloedel obtain permission to do?
a. log areas of Vancouver Island without a public consultation on the issue
b. clear-cut up to 70 percent of the temperate rain forest of Clayoquot Sound
c. sell its land at well below market price to associated logging interests
d. demolish and rebuild Vancouver's East Hastings Street neighbourhood

Question 6
Which of the following continue to dominate the Alberta economy?
a. gas and oil industries
b. tourism, banking, and other service sectors
c. agriculture and the dairy industry
d. mining and smelting industries

Question 7
Who revived the Progressive Conservative party in Alberta in the late 1960s?
a. Peter Lougheed
b. Preston Manning
c. Ernest Manning
d. Don Getty

Question 8
What was Saskatchewan's most serious social problem, according to premier Allan Blakeney?
a. the abysmal state of the educational system
b. the inefficient, backward small family farms, which halted progress in the province
c. the gap between living standards of whites and the Native peoples
d. violence and youth crime

Question 9
Which of the following projects in Manitoba failed when the owners disappeared with most of the $100 million that the government had lent them?
a. hydro-electric installations on the Nelson River
b. Inco mine at Thompson
c. the Churchill Forest Industries complex at The Pas
d. the Core Area Initiative in Winnipeg

Question 10
At the height of the recession in the early 1990s in Ontario,
a. unemployment rate stayed below 5 percent.
b. the proportion of Ontarians with jobs remained higher than in all but two provinces.
c. the province would still rank as the eighth-strongest economy in the world if it were a sovereign state.
d. the average family income was the third highest in Canada.

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