Earth Walker
August 10th, 2001, 05:05 AM
British Columbia is Canada's western-most province and home
to four million people, half of whom are, at any given time,
busy picketing the other half. And, if it's not hands down the
best darn part of the country, at least it beats the pants off of
Manitoba and most of Saskatchewan. But how much do you
really know about our great province?
Take this test and see.
Right before the last devasting ice age, what roamed the area
we now call British Columbia?
O Dinosaurs
O Mastodons
O Boy bands
O The Fraser Institute, assuring everyone there would not be
a devastating ice age.
The First Nations have been in what is now B.C. for 20,000
years. Unfortunately, as far as ownership goes, they:
O Never got around to doing the necessary paperwork
O Forgot to bring a notary public
The first Europeans to visit British Columbia were Spanish
sailors in 1774 looking for:
O Salsa
O Bulls
O New land to claim for Spain
The British arrived in B.C. in 1778 when:
O The Rolling Stones first toured
O Captain James Cook arrived on George Vancouver
After some initial clashes, British and Spanish sailors met in
Nootka Sound in 1790 and agreed to:
O Peacefully share the riches of the new land until they
could decide in a civil manner which country would steal
it from the Indians.
O Strike
That strike will be over:
O Any minute now
O As soon as the cabin-boy contracting-out question is
settled.
Two years after setting out from Hudson's Bay, Alexander
Mackenzie arrived at the Pacific coast in 1793 to find:
O A two-sailing wait
O Spaniards looking for bulls
In 1871, when the region's 12,000 non-native residents
voted to join the Dominion of Canada, B.C.'s estimated 24,000
First Nations people were not considered because:
O It would have spoiled the surprise
O We forgot
On November 7, 1885, Donald Smith stopped in Craigellachie,
B.C., to:
O Try to pronounce Craigellachie, B.C.
O Drive in the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway
line, which finally united the country from coast to coast.
The raiload workers celebrated their remarkable
accomplishment by:
O Striking
That strike will be settled:
O Any minute now
Billy Miner is credited as being the first person to say
"hands up" before fleecing people of all their money, and gained
fame as B.C.'s:
O Most renown bandit
O First finance minister
B.C.'s largest industry is forestry. It's secondary largest
industry is:
O Trying to stop forestry
O A dynamic work force of thousands dedicated to
phoning me during dinner to ask for money.
Due to temperate Pacific currents, coastal B.C. during
winter months has Canada's longest frost-free season. During
summer months, B.C.'s coast is regularly rain-free for:
O Up to four minutes straight
O As long as everyone's at work
Three per cent of the province's land mass is arable,
64 per cent is forested, and the rest consists of:
O Lesbians
O Salad bars
B.C. is home to the world-renown David Suzuki
Foundation, which would just like to remind you that everything
you are doing right now:
O Is going to kill you
O And then destroy the ozone
B.C.'s Rita Johnston was Canada's first woman premier.
B.C.'s Kim Campbell was Canada's first woman prime minister.
Together they served:
O With honour
O With hairdos
O About 11 hours
Patriarchy had a specific beginning in history.
It will also have an end. :smash:
to four million people, half of whom are, at any given time,
busy picketing the other half. And, if it's not hands down the
best darn part of the country, at least it beats the pants off of
Manitoba and most of Saskatchewan. But how much do you
really know about our great province?
Take this test and see.
Right before the last devasting ice age, what roamed the area
we now call British Columbia?
O Dinosaurs
O Mastodons
O Boy bands
O The Fraser Institute, assuring everyone there would not be
a devastating ice age.
The First Nations have been in what is now B.C. for 20,000
years. Unfortunately, as far as ownership goes, they:
O Never got around to doing the necessary paperwork
O Forgot to bring a notary public
The first Europeans to visit British Columbia were Spanish
sailors in 1774 looking for:
O Salsa
O Bulls
O New land to claim for Spain
The British arrived in B.C. in 1778 when:
O The Rolling Stones first toured
O Captain James Cook arrived on George Vancouver
After some initial clashes, British and Spanish sailors met in
Nootka Sound in 1790 and agreed to:
O Peacefully share the riches of the new land until they
could decide in a civil manner which country would steal
it from the Indians.
O Strike
That strike will be over:
O Any minute now
O As soon as the cabin-boy contracting-out question is
settled.
Two years after setting out from Hudson's Bay, Alexander
Mackenzie arrived at the Pacific coast in 1793 to find:
O A two-sailing wait
O Spaniards looking for bulls
In 1871, when the region's 12,000 non-native residents
voted to join the Dominion of Canada, B.C.'s estimated 24,000
First Nations people were not considered because:
O It would have spoiled the surprise
O We forgot
On November 7, 1885, Donald Smith stopped in Craigellachie,
B.C., to:
O Try to pronounce Craigellachie, B.C.
O Drive in the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway
line, which finally united the country from coast to coast.
The raiload workers celebrated their remarkable
accomplishment by:
O Striking
That strike will be settled:
O Any minute now
Billy Miner is credited as being the first person to say
"hands up" before fleecing people of all their money, and gained
fame as B.C.'s:
O Most renown bandit
O First finance minister
B.C.'s largest industry is forestry. It's secondary largest
industry is:
O Trying to stop forestry
O A dynamic work force of thousands dedicated to
phoning me during dinner to ask for money.
Due to temperate Pacific currents, coastal B.C. during
winter months has Canada's longest frost-free season. During
summer months, B.C.'s coast is regularly rain-free for:
O Up to four minutes straight
O As long as everyone's at work
Three per cent of the province's land mass is arable,
64 per cent is forested, and the rest consists of:
O Lesbians
O Salad bars
B.C. is home to the world-renown David Suzuki
Foundation, which would just like to remind you that everything
you are doing right now:
O Is going to kill you
O And then destroy the ozone
B.C.'s Rita Johnston was Canada's first woman premier.
B.C.'s Kim Campbell was Canada's first woman prime minister.
Together they served:
O With honour
O With hairdos
O About 11 hours
Patriarchy had a specific beginning in history.
It will also have an end. :smash: