CASA

9/10/2010 10:07:18 PM

Quiz #9: General Interest
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1. What town was named after a British navigator who accompanied Sir Walter Raleigh?

 

2. Name the house built in New Richmond by a Governor General of Canada in 1888?

 

3. Approximately how many times larger than the state of Rhode Island is the Gaspé Penisula?

 

4. What European country is about the same size as the Gaspé Peninsula?

5. What community of Gaspé Bay bears the name of a Governor of Canada?

 

6. Barachois is a village on the Gaspé Coast. What does the word Barachois mean?

 

7. Where on the coast would you find the longest beach?

8. Where was the first bridge in Gaspé?

 

9. After whom is Murdochville named?

 

10. What was the first name of Port Daniel?

For the answers, click here:
http://gaspesie.quebecheritageweb.com/article_details.aspx?articleId=327.

 
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