Clues About Unknown Canadian History

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Across
  1. 2. Controversial _____ Exclusion League formed in Vancouver in 1907 to oppose Asian immigration
  2. 4. Historic Black community in Halifax systematically destroyed in the 1960s under the guise of "urban renewal"
  3. 6. Battle site in South Africa where Canadians earned their first major victory as a nation in 1900
  4. 7. Le Petit _____, internment camp in Quebec for Japanese Canadians during WWII
  5. 9. Charles _____ Hospital in Edmonton where Indigenous people were subject to medical experiments
  6. 12. 1864 _____ War was a conflict where First Nations defended their territory against road builders in British Columbia
  7. 14. The _____ Maru incident of 1914 highlighted discriminatory immigration policies against South Asians
  8. 16. The _____ quintuplets became unwitting tourist attractions after their 1934 birth in Ontario
  9. 17. The _____ Gold Rush of 1861 changed British Columbia's demographic landscape forever
  10. 18. Influential Neutral Confederacy leader who controlled trade routes in what's now Southern Ontario
  11. 20. The _____ Scoop saw thousands of Indigenous children removed from homes and placed with non-Indigenous families
Down
  1. 1. Devastating 1917 _____ Explosion was the largest man-made blast before atomic weapons
  2. 3. "_____ du Roi" were the king-sponsored women sent to New France in the 1660s to boost population
  3. 5. Original name of the territory where Quebec City now stands, home to the Huron-Wendat Nation
  4. 8. Indigenous ceremony banned by the Canadian government from 1884 to 1951
  5. 10. French colonists whose 1755 expulsion is commemorated in Longfellow's "Evangeline"
  6. 11. Canada's first Indigenous language to receive official status in a territory
  7. 13. Matthew _____, the Black explorer who may have been the first person to reach the North Pole in 1909
  8. 15. The _____ Arrow, advanced fighter jet program controversially cancelled in 1959
  9. 19. Leader executed for treason in 1885, now widely considered a Father of Manitoba