Notes from Discover Canada - Preparation for the Citizenship Test

[esse]

Photo iD like driving license etc. check on website regarding list of acceptable documents. I think PR card was acceptable during my time

PR card or Driver's License will be ok. I used my PR card. Make sure everything on the PR card is clear and readable. Good luck.

 

[yuaki123]

Got my test done on December 11, 2022, 20/20, used my driver license because the instruction asked for photo ID WITH showing signature, PR card doesn't show signature so I was afraid. PR card would have made more sense tbh.

PR card or Driver's License will be ok. I used my PR card. Make sure everything on the PR card is clear and readable. Good luck.

 

[Amine122018]

Hello, everyone,
I am writing in the hope someone can answer my question. I am currently single and am planning to get married in two months. Given I am currently eligible to apply for citizenship, Shall I apply now as a single and update IRCC about my marital status when I get married ( after two months) or shall I wait until I get married and submit my application with the status of married? I am afraid that my application may take longer if I apply as a single and then later update IRCC about my marital status. Many thanks in advance for your answer

 

[esse]

Hello, everyone,
I am writing in the hope someone can answer my question. I am currently single and am planning to get married in two months. Given I am currently eligible to apply for citizenship, Shall I apply now as a single and update IRCC about my marital status when I get married ( after two months) or shall I wait until I get married and submit my application with the status of married? I am afraid that my application may take longer if I apply as a single and then later update IRCC about my marital status. Many thanks in advance for your answer

Applying online will take longer than applying on paper. You can apply as family together with your spouse. I am also single, so this is just my 2 cents. Please take it with a grain of salt. Good luck.

 

[nishant872]

Can someone post the questions asked, who has appeared for test recently and passed.

 

[Sara_3107]

Can someone post the questions asked, who has appeared for test recently and passed.

Yeah it will be a good idea

 

[esse]

No one can post the questions. We are not allowed to discuss the questions. All I can say is, read and understand Discover Canada. There are 414 questions on Youtube. Go through that video. There is also notes from Discover Canada posted here. These notes are helpful too. Skim though this section, you will find other useful link. Don't leave everything to the last minute. Good luck.

 

[gaurav1282]

Any ideas when IRCC is opening online applications for families with kids , I understand that this was planned by end of year 2022. but seems like it’s still sometime before it happens

 

[randomdude]

Introduction​

• Sources of Canadian Law = laws passed by Parliament and the provincial legislatures, English common law, the civil code of France and the unwritten constitution that we have inherited from Great Britain
• Combined all above = Magna Carta / Great Charter of Freedoms (1215 AD)
• Habeas corpus = Right to challenge unlawful detention by the state (English Common Law)
• Constitution of Canada amended to include Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982)
• Fundamental freedoms + Additional rights
• Mobility rights, Aboriginal People's Rights, Official Language Rights and Minority Language Educational Rights, Multiculturalism
• Responsibilities = Obeying the law, taking responsibility for oneself and one’s family, serving on jury, Voting, Volunteering, Protecting/Enjoying heritage and environment
• Defending Canada = foreces.ca / cadets.ca for young people

History of Canada (Part 1 / 2)​

• Peace, Order, and Good Government comes from British North America Act (1867)
• Songwriters called Canada "Great Dominion"
• Founding peoples = Aboriginal, French, British
• Aboriginal people migrated from Asia thousands of years ago.
• Territorial rights were first guaranteed through the Royal Proclamation of 1763 by King George III
• 1800 - 1980 => Aboriginal children in residential schools, Schools were poorly funded, students abused, Aboriginal language and cultural practices were prohibited. In 2008, Ottawa formally apologized to former students.
• Aboriginal people = 3 groups | First Nations (65%), Metis (30%), Inuit (4%)
• 'Indian' refers to all Aboriginal people who are not Inuit or Métis. Term no longer used. Now they are called 'First Nations'.
• About half of First Nations people live on reserve land in about 600 communities | Remaining off the reserve in urban centers
• Inuit, means "The People" in Inuktitut language live in Arctic. Knowledgeable about land, sea, wildlife
• Metis = people of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry. Majority in Prairie provinces. Their dialect = Michif (French + English speaking backgrounds).
• John Buchan | 1st Baron Tweedsmuir | popular Governor General of Canada (1935-40) | Said "Immigrant groups should retain their individuality and each make its contribution to the national character." at Canadian Club of Halifax, 1937.
• Today, Anglophones = 18 million, 7 million Francophones (majority live in Quebec) - 1 million live in Ontario, NB & Manitoba
• NB is the only official bilingual province
• Acadians = descendants of French colonists, began settling in the Maritime provinces in 1604.
• Between 1755 and 1763 (war b/w Britain and France), 2/3rd of Acadians were deported from their homeland. This is known as "Great Upheaval".
• Quebecers = People of Quebec (French speaking majority). Descendants of 8500 French settlers
• The House of Commons recognized in 2006 that the Quebecois form a nation within a united Canada.
• One million Anglo-Quebecers have a heritage of 250 years | vibrant part of Quebec fabric
• basic way of life in English-speaking areas established by English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish settlers, soldiers and migrants from the 1600s to 20th century
• Canada = "Land of immigrants"
• From 1970s, most immigrants have come from Asian countries.
• Chinese is second most 2nd most spoken at home.
• Vancouver = 13% speak Chinese at home | Toronto = 7% speak Chinese at home
• Majority of Canadians = Christians
• Canada's diversity includes gay, lesbian | All protection under the law including marriage
• Marjorie Turner-Bailey of Nova Scotia = Olympian, descendant of black Loyalists, escaped slaves & free men, fled to Canada in 1780s from America.
• Huron-Wendat of the Great Lakes region, like the Iroquois = farmers and hunters
• Cree and Dene of the Northwest = hunter-gatherers
• Sioux = Nomadic, following bison herds.
• Inuit = Lived off Arctic wildlife
• West Coast natives = preserved fish by drying and smoking
• Warfare was common among Aboriginal groups for resources, land & prestige
• Many aboriginals died because of European diseases they didn't have immunity to
• Vikings from Iceland, colonized Greenland 1000 years go reached Newfoundland & Labrador
• The remains of their settlement L’Anse aux Meadows = World heritage site
• European exploration began 1497
• John Cabot = first to draw a map of Canada’s East Coast.
• Jacques Cartier, voyages across Atlantic, claiming land for King Francis I of France
• Jacques Cartier = first European to explore St. Lawrence River, set eyes on present-day Québec City & Montreal
• Iroquoian word 'Kanata' means village
• By 1550s, name "Canada" began appearing on maps
• Samuel de Champlain = In 1608, built a fortress in Quebec City
• French and the Iroquois made peace in 1701
• French and Aboriginal people collaborated in the vast fur-trade economy, demand for beaver pelts in Europe
• Jean Talon, Bishop Laval, and Count Frontenac built a French Empire from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico
• Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester) defeated American invasion of Quebec in 1775
• King Charles II of England = In 1670, granted Hudson’s Bay Company exclusive trading rights over the watershed draining into Hudson Bay
• Voyageurs / coureurs des bois = Montreal-based traders | men who travelled by canoe | formed strong alliances with First Nations
• Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec City = 1759 | British defeated French marking the end of France’s empire in America
• Commander of both Armies (Brigadier James Wolfe and the Marquis de Montcalm) were killed in the war
• After the war, Britain renamed the colony the “Province of Quebec.”
• Canadiens / Habitants = French speaking Catholic people
• Quebec Act = 1774 | Passed by British parliament | allowed religious freedom for Catholics and permitted them to hold public office
• Quebec Act restored French civil law while maintaining British criminal law
• In 1776, 13 British colonies to the south of Quebec declared independence and formed the United States.
• People loyal to the Crown = “Loyalists" fled oppression and moved to Nova Scotia and Quebec
• Joseph Brant led thousands of Loyalist Mohawk Indians to Canada
• In 1792, some black Nova Scotians were given poor land, moved on to establish Freetown, Sierra Leone

There's a little typo for the Canadian armed forces website. It's forces.ca

 

[Rorosgurl]

i hope this helps. All the very best

Discover Canada (official study guide)

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals.html


Discover Canada (official study guide): https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/discover-canada/read-online/study-questions.html

http://www.citizenshipsupport.ca (Free Quiz and you can purchase more for $29)

http://citizenshipcounts.ca/quiz (Study Guide nicely organized in section, Flashcard, and Quiz) - Free no purchase required

http://www.v-soul.com/onlinetest/canada_citizen_test/ (Quiz Only) - Free

http://www.thecanadiantest.com/citizenship-test/14 (Study Guide and Quiz) - Free

http://www.onlinecitizenshiptest.ca/ (Access to all chapters and quiz for 3 months for $15.99) - Paid

http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/ (Quiz only) - Free

https://www.apnatoronto.com/canadian-citizenship-test-practice/ (Quiz only) - Free

https://www.immigroup.com/tools/citizenship-test/take-the-test.php

http://www.thecanadiantest.com/citizenship-test/1 -- IMPORTANT SAME AS REAL EXAM

http://www.toptipsclub.com/Canadian_Citizenship_Test_Index.asp

http://www.toptipsclub.com/Citizenship_TestPractice_T1.asp#Q1 - They have 16 practice tests - they are to the right hand side and you can click each.

http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/index.cfm - Select Nova Scotia and All questions for 150 questions

http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/Booklet.pdf - 14 pages of questions and answers.

http://citizenshipcounts.ca/quiz - timed quiz and random quiz with 100 questions

http://citizenshiptests.ca/practice-tests/ - 14 practice tests

http://citizenshiptests.ca/practice-tests/practice-test-no-2/

http://www.citizenshipsupport.ca/free-tests/ - Free chapter 1 test and free 20 questions overall test

http://www.v-soul.com/onlinetest/citizenship_practice_test/ - 100 questions

http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/mobile/ more similar to the real test.

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/new-to-canada/citizenship.jsp

https://www.mississauga.ca/library/using-the-library/newcomers/canadian-citizenship/

https://www.learningexpresshub.com/productengine/LELIndex.html#/learningexpresslibrary/canadiancitizenship/resources/become-a-canadian-citizen/canadian-citizenship-exam-preparation/canadiancitizenship

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/collection/citizenship

https://citizenshiptests.org/tests/canada-citizenship-practice-test/

https://www.cweek.ca/canada/citizenshiptest/questions

https://free-citizenship-test.musitrature.com/

http://citizenshipcounts.ca/quiz

http://www.apnatoronto.com/

http://www.v-soul.com/

http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/

@Mrnassaro

 

[sk540]

Hi

I'm filling the citizenship application online. It is asking for "Language Proof", CLB with atleast 4 score. Can I submit the CLB Test result for the test I gave in year 2019? is it acceptable or Do i have to give it again.

Thanks

 

[IG2020]

Hi

I'm filling the citizenship application online. It is asking for "Language Proof", CLB with atleast 4 score. Can I submit the CLB Test result for the test I gave in year 2019? is it acceptable or Do i have to give it again.

Thanks

Yes u can use the test results from 2019

 

[gaurangnshah]

could someone from their experience share how difficult the test was, I understand you can't share the question. but could you share how many questions were difficult, how many questions were on history with specific dates, and how many questions were for a specific historical figure?

historical dates and figure are the most tricky to remember, and trying to understand out of 20 questions how many are like that

 

[Rorosgurl]

could someone from their experience share how difficult the test was, I understand you can't share the question. but could you share how many questions were difficult, how many questions were on history with specific dates, and how many questions were for a specific historical figure?

historical dates and figure are the most tricky to remember, and trying to understand out of 20 questions how many are like that

It was the easiest test. I scored 20/20 and took the test In less than 3 minutes. I read the book twice and did some apna tests. You will be fine. Don’t stress out.

 

[gaurangnshah]

It was the easiest test. I scored 20/20 and took the test In less than 3 minutes. I read the book twice and did some apna tests. You will be fine. Don’t stress out.

same here guys,

Completed test in less than 5 minutes with 20/20. No need to remember so much on dates, even if a question comes it would just one or two which is okay I guess. Other questions are really easy.