Guess where? – Game 2

How to play this game:

• Match each image with the right province or territory on the map.
• Click on the image to enlarge it.
• Take it to the next level and guess the exact name of the location and the year when the picture was taken.

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  Map of Canada depicting the provinces and territories with 13 numbered thumbnail images spread around the map. There is a blank spot on each province and territory where you can enter the number of the corresponding image.

  • Image 1 – Exploratory Survey. Sleighs carrying 1500 lbs
  • Image 2 – Market Slip
  • Image 3 – Great cedar tree
  • Image 4 – Mr. Malcolm Rogers’ house moored to the shore awaiting the high tide
  • Image 5 – The grain pours out of spout into the dump truck
  • Image 6 – Parliament Hill
  • Image 7 – Ponies
  • Image 8 – Panning gold
  • Image 9 – Children gathering potatoes
  • Image 10 – Children coasting
  • Image 11 – Schooners
  • Image 12 – Falls Ice cone
  • Image 13 – Dinosaur fields

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• Answers

  1. Northwest Territories
     [Exploratory Survey between Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay, Districts of Mackenzie and Keewatin.] Sleighs carrying 1500 lbs. each on Great Slave Lake, N.W.T.
     Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, no date. Reference no. a019552-v8
  2. New Brunswick
     Market Slip, Saint John, N.B.
     Saint John, New Brunswick, no date. Reference no. a020637
  3. British Columbia
     Great cedar tree, Stanley Park
     Vancouver, British Columbia, 1897. Reference no. c037579
  4. Newfoundland and Labrador
     Mr. Malcolm Rogers’ house moored to the shore awaiting the high tide, during the course of a relocation from Fox Island to Flat Island
     Dover, Newfoundland and Labrador, August 1961. Reference no. e011177530-v8
  5. Saskatchewan
     “The Schiefner farm at Milestone, Sask. The grain pours out of spout into the dump truck”
     Milestone, Saskatchewan, 1956. Reference no. e011176428-v8
  6. Ontario
     Parliament Hill from the Ottawa River showing entrance to the Rideau Locks
     Ottawa, Ontario, after 1889. Reference no. a008380-v8
  7. Nova Scotia
     Sable Island ponies
     Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 1959. Reference no. e011177175-v8
  8. Yukon
     Panning gold during the Klondike Gold Rush
     Yukon, ca. 1897-1908. Reference no. c005389
  9. Prince Edward Island
     Children gathering potatoes in Prince Edward Island
     Prince Edward Island, ca. 1921. Reference no. a043964
  10. Nunavut
      Children coasting, Repulse Bay, [N.W.T.]
      Repulse Bay (Naujaat/Aivilik), Nunavut, May 1926. Reference no. a099315-v6
  11. Manitoba
      Prairie Schooners
      Manitoba, no date. Reference no. c015040
  12. Quebec
      Ice cone, Montmorency Falls
      Near Quebec, Quebec, 1876. Reference no. a138521k
  13. Alberta
      Red Deer River Badlands – dinosaur fields near Steveville, Alberta
      Near Steveville, Alberta, no date. Reference no. e010859385