Q 01/05

In which Canadian province is Banff National Park?

A) Saskatchewan

B) British Columbia

C) Ontario

D) Alberta

Answer · why

D) Alberta

Alberta is younger than the park: when the first reserve was set aside here the land was still part of the North-West Territories, and the province wa...

Q 02/05

Banff is Canada's oldest national park; which American one is the world's oldest?

A) Yosemite

B) Yellowstone

C) Grand Canyon

D) Denali

Answer · why

B) Yellowstone

Yellowstone opened in 1872. Banff followed in 1885, when a fight over private claims pushed Ottawa to reserve 26 sq km for the public, and it became a...

Q 03/05

What natural feature, found by railway workers in 1883, led to the creation of Banff National Park?

A) A gold seam

B) An ice cave

C) Thermal springs

D) A waterfall

Answer · why

C) Thermal springs

Thermal springs on Sulphur Mountain, reached through a cave by railway workers in 1883, prompted the reserve; competing private claims to the springs ...

Q 04/05

Which prime minister's government set aside the 1885 reserve that grew into Banff National Park?

A) Alexander Mackenzie

B) Robert Borden

C) Wilfrid Laurier

D) John A. Macdonald

Answer · why

D) John A. Macdonald

John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, had his government reserve the disputed site to block private claims; those 26 sq km were the seed o...

Q 05/05

Under what name was Banff known officially from 1887 until 1930?

A) Cascade Park

B) Rocky Mountains Park

C) Dominion Park

D) Bow Valley Park

Answer · why

B) Rocky Mountains Park

Rocky Mountains Park was the name set by the 1887 act that made the small reserve Canada's first national park; the National Parks Act of 1930 swapped...