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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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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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42:21

Episode 169: Reciprocity

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2023/11/22

Deprived of preferential access to the British market, the colonies seek economic salvation in the form of railroads and free trade with the United States.

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37:47

Episode 168: Coarse Vulgar Democracy

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2023/11/15

Taking a page out of the Reformers book, a new generation of conservatives form a coalition across the linguistic divide.

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31:54

Episode 167: Do More and Talk Less

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2023/11/08

Teacher and newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd initiates a debate about what Canada's role in ought to be in furthering the cause of blacks in North America.

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37:37

Episode 166: The Place Where the Dead White Men Were

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2023/11/01

The desperate search for a Royal Navy expedition sparks the most concentrated burst of exploration in the history of the Canadian arctic.

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37:06

Episode 165: The Land Question

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2023/10/25

The tenant farmers of Prince Edward Island decide they no longer want any part of an experiment to revive a bygone era of aristocratic land tenure.

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33:31

Episode 164: Common Schools

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2023/10/18

An attempt to implement a publicly funding school system produces mob violence in Lower Canada, and a slew of court battles in Upper Canada.

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47:05

Episode 163: I Must Have Something For It

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2023/10/11

Shingwauk, an Ojibwe chief in the Sault Ste. Marie area, calls on the Canadian government to form an economic partnership for the development of the territory north of Upper Canada.

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33:24

Episode 162: Refuge

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2023/10/04

The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in the United States accelerates black migration across the international border, creating new communities and re-shaping the racial politics of Upper Canada.

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39:27

Episode 161: The Glorious Twelfth

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2023/09/27

As New Brunswick struggles with the loss of preferential access to the British lumber market and an influx of Catholic migration from Ireland, ethnic and religious tensions play out on the streets of St. John.

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42:21

Episode 160: Le Commerce est Libre

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2023/09/20

Independent Metis traders in the Red River colony provide the Hudson's Bay Company with the greatest challenge to its monopoly in 180 years.

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46:59

Episode 159: The Torch of Discord

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2023/09/13

Canadians take to the streets of Montreal to re-fight the 1837 rebellion, destroying the parliament building in the process.

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39:59

Episode 158: Responsible Government

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2023/09/06

As revolutions sweep across Europe, two former rivals in Nova Scotia carry out their own political transformation.

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34:59

Episode 157: A New Ireland

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2023/08/30

An increase in Catholic migration from Ireland reshapes Canada's demographic landscape, and reminds the Orange Order in the colony of its original, sectarian identity.

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