These are the answers to Eric Akis’s Canada Day food quiz.
These are the answers to Eric Akis’s Canada Day food quiz.You can find the questions here.
1. In diners and other eateries in Quebec, you’ll see poutine served, french fries topped with gravy and cheese curds. In casual eating spots in Newfoundland, though, you’re more likely to see those fries offered this way:
b) Topped with gravy and dressing, a seasoned bread crumb mixture
2. If you’re commercial fisher in Canada and fishing for elvers, what are you trying to catch?
a) Young eels
3.This is Canada’s only native cereal:
d) Wild rice
4. Mary Brown’s describes itself as the largest Canadian quick-serve chicken restaurant franchise. When and where did this business begin operating?
b) In St. John’s, Newfoundland, in 1969
5.This maker of products, such as Viva Puffs, Bear Paws cookies, and Melba Toast, says it has been a proudly Canadian, family-owned company since 1889:
c) Dare
6. Beginning operations in 1973, this company’s website says it has grown to become Canada’s largest independent ice cream manufacturer:
a) Chapman’s
7. In 1903, his high-society father sent his son, retired British soldier, Thomas Ashburnham, to Fredericton, New Brunswick. There he soon met and married Maria Anderson, a telephone operator. After her new husband’s father died, her title changed, though, as he became an earl, and she became Lady Ashburnham. Despite the more glamorous title, she became most famous for a tasty preserve she made that’s still made and enjoyed in the Maritimes today. What is it?
c) Lady Ashburnham pickles
8. On the tourism website (tourismoxford.ca) for Oxford County, Ontario, they call their part of that province the Dairy Capital of Canada. Why?
b) Because their county produces roughly one billion glasses of milk every year
9. Belleville, Ontario, is home to this snack food business that’s been operating in that city Canada since 1956:
a) Hawkins Cheezies
10. According to the Girl Guides of Canada website, girlguides.ca, in 1927, a Girl Guide leader in Regina did this:
c) Baked and packaged cookies for her girls to sell as a simple way to raise money for their uniforms and camping equipment. Little did she know that she was starting one of Canada’s best-loved traditions.
11. Certified organic Avalon Dairy began humbly in 1906 when founder Jeremiah Crowley bought a small farm that included six cows on land that is now part of Vancouver. Why did he choose that name?
c) As a nod to his roots. Before he moved west and settled in B.C., Crowley lived on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula
12. Fiddleheads are the young, curled, edible fronds of certain ferns harvested in places such as Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario. However, the Canadian Encyclopedia says the most commercial harvesting of fiddleheads occurs in this province:
d) New Brunswick
13. The Inuvialuit are Inuit who live in the western Canadian Arctic region. On the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation website (irc.inuvialuit.com) they have section on traditional foods. One treat listed is putuligaat. What is it?
c) Deep fried donuts with six to eight holes, also called Inuvialuit donut or Eskimo donuts
14. This past January, Export Development Canada’s agri-food lead, Ashley Kanary, shared his insights on food trends to watch for in 2025. What was his number one pick?
b) Back to basics, more natural way of cooking and eating, where people are getting back into the kitchen in a meaningful way, seeking both health and convenience
15. According Bill Casselman’s classic book,Canadian Food Words, Cape Breton Pork Pies do not contain this:
d) pork meat
16. Moosomin is a Saskatchewan town located near the Manitoba border. What is the name Moosomin derived from?
a) The Cree word for the edible high bush cranberry, also known as mooseberry and squashberry
17.St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market, located in the Township of Woolwich, Ontario, near Waterloo, claims to be this:
d) The largest year-round indoor/outdoor farmers’ market in Canada, welcoming more than one million visitors each year
18. The community of Cawston, located just east of Keremeos in B.C.’s south Similkameen Valley, is known as:
b) The Organic Farming Capital of Canada, with nearly 100 certified organic farms in the area, the highest concentration of them in our country
19.Standing Room Only, located in Guelph, Ontario, claims to be:
c) Canada’s smallest bar, 143.8 square feet in size, with a capacity of nine
20. The owners of Heartbeat Hot Sauce, founded in 2015, say a hobby of making hot sauce for themselves quickly ignited into a full fledged business after word of mouth spread about how amazing their products were. Heartbeat Hot Sauce is now sold across Canada and internationally. In what city did they start making, and still make, their addictive hot sauces?
d) Thunder Bay, Ontario