Canada Quiz Time (foreigners, closest, foreign)

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

I doubt it was "Canada" at that point, unless you count a colonial province. I was thinking more of a PM born at or after the time of Dominion status.

Oh yes it definitely was and John Abbott "counts". He was PM after Sir John A. Macdonald and after the confederation of 1867.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

Does NWT or Yukon? I know my Dad's old work number (he died in 1973) was (212) YUkon 6-1290.

No they don't count either.

New Brunswick is the only bilingual province.

All of the territories are under federal legislation of some kind so they tend to have bilingual, trilingual or whatever-lingual status as a result of this I suppose.

Indigenous languages for example AFAIK have some type of status in all three, which is not the case for any of the provinces.

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Oh yes it definitely was and John Abbott "counts". He was PM after Sir John A. Macdonald and after the confederation of 1867.

When Abbott was born, though, wasn't "Canada" under direct rule of some kind, even if called "responsible government"? And the question was "how many provinces and territories" does Canada have.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

When Abbott was born, though, wasn't "Canada" under direct rule of some kind, even if called "responsible government"? And the question was "how many provinces and territories" does Canada have.

I still think he counts as he was born here on what later became Canadian territory.

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by Acajack

I still think he counts as he was born here on what later became Canadian territory.

Would it count if he were born on St. Pierre & Miquelon?

[Suesbal]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

Would it count if he were born on St. Pierre & Miquelon?

SP&M was never part of Canada.

[Suesbal]

Who was the last Prime Minister born a British subject?

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by Suesbal

Who was the last Prime Minister born a British subject?

That was teh question I thought was being asked, i.e. who was the first PM not born a British subject?

[Suesbal]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

That was teh question I thought was being asked, i.e. who was the first PM not born a British subject?

Canadians were officially British subjects until the late 1940s.

[Acajack]

I guess Kim Campbell would be the first PM not born as a British subject.

Even Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin who were PM after her, were born as British subjects.