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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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42:21

Episode 169: Reciprocity

The Nations of Canada ·

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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36:41

Episode 156: 54-40 or Fight

The Nations of Canada ·

2023/08/23

The arrival of American settlers in significant numbers, and a bellicose presidential campaign in the United States, force an end to the Anglo-American power sharing agreement in the Pacific Northwest.

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34:48

Episode 155: The Bagot Commission

The Nations of Canada ·

2023/08/16

A generation after the military alliances of the War of 1812, indigenous communities and the Canadian state begin forging a new relationship.

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46:07

Episode 154: I Know Not What to Call It

The Nations of Canada ·

2023/08/09

Post-rebellion Canadian politics are muddied by a series of untimely deaths in the Governor-General office.

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32:17

Episode 153: New Identities

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2023/08/02

With the collapse of the Patriote movement, the Catholic Church re-emerges as a key pillar of French Canadian national identity. At the same time, habitant families begin looking beyond the crowded St. Lawrence valley.

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35:25

Episode 152: The Missionary Company

The Nations of Canada ·

2023/07/26

In an effort to improve its brand in Britain, the Hudson's Bay Company allows missionaries into the northwest to minister to its indigenous partners, shifting the political and social landscape of the region.

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41:15

Episode 151: A Stupid Place to Build an Outpost

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2023/07/19

Anglo-Russian border tensions on the Pacific coast are enlivened by a murder in the Hudson's Bay Company's most remote trading post.

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42:08

Episode 150: Mending Fences

The Nations of Canada ·

2023/07/12

After multiple diplomatic crises that nearly veered into war, Britain and the United States hold a summit to resolve their outstanding differences in North America, from disputed borders to the extradition of escaped slaves.

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