How many Canadians have died in all wars to date?

Discover Canada states this total in the same passage that introduces Remembrance Day. The guide writes: Canadians remember the sacrifices of our veterans and brave fallen in all wars up to the present day in which Canadians took part, each year on November 11: Remembrance Day. Canadians wear the red poppy and observe a moment of silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month to honour the sacrifices of over a million brave men and women who have served, and the 110,000 who have given their lives. The number the test wants is therefore 110,000.

The figure aggregates Canadian war deaths across all conflicts. Discover Canada gives the major individual totals elsewhere — 60,000 Canadians killed in the First World War, 44,000 killed in the Second World War, plus those lost in the Boer War (over 260) and other conflicts. The 110,000 figure in the Remembrance Day passage rolls those up into a single number that Discover Canada uses to anchor the day's commemoration.

The same paragraph gives the matching service total. Discover Canada says Canadians honour "over a million brave men and women who have served" alongside the 110,000 who have died. The two numbers — over a million served, 110,000 killed — define what new citizens are expected to know about the human cost of Canada's wars.

Remembrance Day itself ties the figures to the calendar. Discover Canada writes: "each year on November 11... a moment of silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month." The poppy and the date come from Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae's 1915 poem "In Flanders Fields," which the guide says is "often recited on Remembrance Day."

The question is testing whether new citizens have remembered Discover Canada's exact total. The guide commits to 110,000 Canadians who have given their lives across all wars — the round figure used in the Remembrance Day passage.

The other answer choices each test the reader. 50,000 understates the figure. 75,000 still understates it. 150,000 overstates it. Discover Canada's number is 110,000 — and that is the only war-deaths total used in the Remembrance Day section of the guide.