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Grade 8 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 9

Canada Grows, 1867 to 1914

Railways, new provinces, and who gained or lost.

What your child practises

Practises how the expansion and development of Canada from 1867 to 1914 affected various peoples and regions: railways, new provinces, western settlement, tariffs and changes in the Maritimes. It follows the Grade 8 social studies skill descriptor on events and peoples in the New Brunswick curriculum.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: History: Events and Peoples · how the expansion and development of Canada affected various peoples and regions

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What is emigration?

    • leaving your home country to live in another
    • moving into a new country to live
    • travelling for a holiday
    • building a new railway

  2. Question 2

    What was a homestead?

    • a hotel for travellers
    • a railway station
    • land given to a settler to live on and farm
    • a government office

  3. Question 3

    After British Columbia joined in 1871, Canada stretched…

    • from Europe to Asia
    • only to the Great Lakes
    • only across the Maritimes
    • from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

  4. Question 4

    In which year was the Canadian Pacific Railway finished?

    • 1905
    • 1867
    • 1949
    • 1885

  5. Question 5

    What did many settlers build first on the open Prairies, where trees were scarce?

    • a log cabin from city lumber
    • a stone castle
    • a sod house
    • a high-rise

  6. Question 6

    Why might a historian say expansion affected regions differently?

    • Only the Arctic changed
    • Some regions gained people and jobs while others lost them
    • No region changed at all
    • Every region changed in exactly the same way

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