This country, which debated union with the Bahamas, tacitly endorsed a 2009 coup against Manuel Zelaya (“seh-LAH-yah”) to protect favorable Honduran mining laws. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country where Viola Desmond challenged segregation. This country’s West Indian Domestic Scheme populated enclaves like Little Jamaica and Little Burgundy, the home of jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.
ANSWER: Canada [accept Dominion of Canada] (Little Jamaica is in Toronto and Little Burgundy is in Montreal.)
[10h] Specific word required. The Haitian-Canadian governor-general Michaëlle Jean (“mee-kah-ELL ZHON”) gave a speech on “breaking down” these things. A 1945 Hugh MacLennan novel coined the metaphor that two of these things divide French and English Canada.
ANSWER: solitudes [accept Two Solitudes or Deux solitudes; accept “Briser Les Solitudes” or “Breaking Down Solitudes”]
[10e] This place names a Canadian railway company that recruited many Antiguans (“ann-TEE-guns”) and sent steamships to St. Kitts. It also names an 1872 scandal over John A. MacDonald’s rail contracts.
ANSWER: Pacific Ocean [or Océan Pacifique; accept Pacific scandal or Scandale du Pacifique; accept Canadian Pacific Railway, CPR, Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique, or CP Rail]
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