Let’s celebrate the Translation Bureau’s 90th anniversary!

1. Approximately how many people work for the Translation Bureau?
2. When it was created, the Translation Bureau was mandated to provide simultaneous interpretation in House of Commons debates.
3. In which sign language does the Translation Bureau offer its sign-language interpretation services?
4. In how many Indigenous languages does the Translation Bureau provide its services?
5. Since its creation, the Translation Bureau has been helping Canadians follow major events that take place in Canada. What historic event did the Translation Bureau make accessible to all Canadians in Indigenous languages?
6. I am a Translation Bureau initiative, launched in 2009 to support the implementation of the Official Languages Act in Canadian society. What am I?
7. Approximately how many words were translated at the Translation Bureau in the past year?
8. The Translation Bureau’s TERMIUM Plus® terminology bank is a reference known throughout the world. In which languages can you find its 1.4 million terminology records?
9. How long did it take the Translation Bureau’s terminologists to create the first version of the Glossary on the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020?
10. When did the Translation Bureau start using machine translation?