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The Nations of Canada

A narrative history of Canada from its first inhabitants to the present day.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-nations-of-canada--4572969/support.

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31:23

Episode 189: Questions and Answers

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2024/04/10

The podcast takes a pause in the narrative to field questions from listeners.

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46:27

Episode 188: This Peaceful Revolution

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2024/04/03

Two and a half years after the Quebec Conference, and after bitter debates, dead-ends, political pressure of dubious constitutionality from London, two elections in New Brunswick, and an invasion or two, confederation finally comes into effect.

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42:12

Episode 187: The Battle of Ridgeway

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2024/03/27

After several false alarms British North America undergoes two Fenian invasions in a matter of weeks, creating the greatest security crisis in a generation.

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37:05

Episode 186: The Fenians

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2024/03/20

The end of the Civil War in the United States creates a military threat to British North America, though not the one many Canadians feared.

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33:03

Episode 185: I Have No Faith in Canadian Statesmen

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2024/03/13

As the Maritime delegates return home from the Quebec conference, they discover that the voting public does not necessarily approve of their work.

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38:38

Episode 184: The Tenant League

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2024/03/06

When all conventional political solutions to Prince Edward Island's intractable Land Question fail (including union with Canada), the farmers of the colony take matters into their own hands.

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41:31

Episode 183: The Confederacy in Canada

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2024/02/28

Attempting to stave off defeat, an increasingly desperate Confederacy turns to an espionage campaign in Canada, perched on the Union's unprotected northern flank.

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43:47

Episode 182: The Two Conferences

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2024/02/21

Canadian delegates crash a conference on Maritime Union, and present a much more ambitious confederation of British North American possessions.

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33:52

Episode 181: A Tremendous Thing If We Accomplish It

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2024/02/14

With Canada facing crippling railway debts, political paralysis and dysfunction, and a looming security threat, George Brown proposes major constitutional change.

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42:09

Episode 180: The Chilcotin War

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2024/02/07

While the Civil War rages in the east, the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia face their own conflicts.

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41:20

Episode 179: A Hot Southern Town

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2024/01/31

The American Civil War comes to the Maritime colonies, as a network of Confederate agents develops in Halifax.

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36:26

Episode 178: Is She Prepared for War

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2024/01/24

The outbreak of the Civil War in the United States creates both threats and opportunities for British North Americans.

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38:58

Episode 177: Break Them to Pieces

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2024/01/17

The Canadian government formalizes its assimilationist Indian policy in statute, sparking a new round of resistance and political organization among indigenous communities.

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46:35

Episode 176: A Royal Visit

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2024/01/10

The Prince of Wales visits Canada, and discovers that some of his mother's subjects there are a bit too loyal to the Crown.

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39:44

Episode 175: The Double Shuffle

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2024/01/03

Canadian politics enters a state of paralysis as trans-national coalition governments become ever more difficult to maintain. The only answer appears to be dramatic constitutional reform.

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37:00

Episode 174: Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Traitor to the...

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2023/12/27

A reformed rebel arrives in Montreal, intent on constructing a distinct Canadian national identity that includes British, French, and Irish components.

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42:09

Episode 173: To Breathe Purer Air

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2023/12/20

As the gold rush hits Vancouver Island, Governor James Douglas searches California for migrants unlikely to agitate for annexation into the United States.

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39:26

Episode 172: The Starving Ones

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2023/12/13

The discovery of gold on Fraser River attracts a flood of American prospectors, threatening a repeat of the Oregon crisis, and further surrenders of British territory in the Pacific Northwest.

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42:28

Episode 171: The Future of the Company

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2023/12/06

Almost two hundred years after its founding, the Hudson's Bay Company is forced to contemplate a world without its monopoly charter.

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37:36

Episode 170: Little Better Than a Parody

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2023/11/29

In an effort to avoid a repeat of the Oregon surrender, the Hudson's Bay Company establishes a settler colony on Vancouver Island. The early returns are, however, mixed.

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