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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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Episode 149: A Forced Marriage

The Nations of Canada ·

2023/07/05

In the aftermath of the 1837 rebellions, the two Canadas are united. But while the British authorities hope this change will marginalize the French Canadian minority, a group of reformers see the opportunity to create a trans-national coalition.

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Episode 148: A Flame not Easily Subdued

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2023/06/28

Newfoundland reformers finally achieve their goal of representative self-government. However, after a series of violent elections, London and the elites of St. John's decide to pull the plug on the constitutional experiment.

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Episode 147: The Durham Report

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2023/06/21

A former Governor-General of British North America offers Westminster his recommendations for post-rebellion Canada, sparking a mass popular movement in Upper Canada.

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Episode 146: The Aroostook War

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2023/06/14

Just as the conflict in the borderlands ends, a new crisis erupts on the Maine/New Brunswick frontier as rival logging parties clash in a long-disputed territory.

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Episode 145: Canada is in the Mouth of Everyone

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2023/06/07

From Maine to Michigan, a network of underground cells plots an invasion that would turn Canada into a new Texas in the north.

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Episode 144: The Rebellion in the Borderlands

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2023/05/31

Canadian rebels flee into American exile, and immediately find allies willing to join them in re-opening the insurrection. The situation immediately transforms from colonial rebellion to international diplomatic crisis.

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Episode 143: Mackenzie's Rebellion

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2023/05/24

In Upper Canada, a charismatic populist leads a march on the capital, convincing a group of frustrated insurrectionaries that they will be greeted as liberators, restoring constitutional government.

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41:34

Episode 142: Everything is Lawful

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2023/05/17

After years of fruitless political gridlock, the Patriotes of Lower Canada take up arms against the British Empire.

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34:14

Episode 141: Unrest in the Countryside

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2023/05/10

With a conflict looming between the Patriotes and the colonial government, both sides look to the majority habitant population for support, only to discover neither of them know much about rural Lower Canada.

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34:34

Episode 140: Let Them Come if They Dare

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2023/05/03

Upper Canada's new Lieutenant-Governor arrives with a mandate to bring harmony to colonial politics - a mission he seeks to carry out through partisan interference, electoral manipulation, and intimidation.

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Episode 139: The Accursed Progress of Civilization

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2023/04/26

A new Lieutenant-Governor arrives in Upper Canada with a plan to insulate indigenous nations from the setter population - but he runs into trouble when he fails to either consult indigenous leaders, or follow diplomatic protocol.

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Episode 138: A Youth Aping Maturity

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2023/04/19

A maturing Upper Canada exits its pioneering phase. To mark the occasion the colony's capital gets a new name, initiating a long tradition of Torontonians believing they live at the centre of the universe, and everyone else being somewhat less impressed.

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37:40

Episode 137: Bluenosers

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2023/04/12

In Nova Scotia, distinctions between Planters, Loyalists, and British migrants begin to disappear as a new, shared identity emerges.

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38:30

Episode 136: Confusion and Uncertainty

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2023/04/05

The polarization of Lower Canadian politics intensifies, and begins to effect other aspects of society, including women's suffrage and civil rights for the colony's black population.

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Episode 135: A Tale of Two Canals

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2023/03/29

In the same of economic development and imperial security, Upper Canada re-shapes the landscape of the Niagara peninsula and the Ottawa valley.

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Episode 134: New Canadians

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2023/03/22

A new wave of migration from Britain alters the demographic landscape of the Canadas - and also brings with it a public health crisis.

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30:34

Episode 133: A Desert of Fur

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2023/03/15

Desperate to consolidate its control over the Pacific Northwest before the arrival of American rivals, the Hudson's Bay Company adopts some innovative, ruthless tactics in the fur trade.

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Episode 132: The Alien Question

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2023/03/08

Upper Canada struggles to come to terms with the fact that a large proportion of its population is made up of immigrants from a recently hostile neighbour.

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Episode 131: The War for Religious Liberty

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2023/03/01

Upper Canadian Anglicans attempt to fashion a definition of loyalty and Canadian identity that excludes other denominations - a project that meets resistance from the colony's Methodists.

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Episode 130: Cultural Preservation

The Nations of Canada ·

2023/02/22

French-Canadians and Kahnawake Iroquois both struggle to define their identities in a rapidly changing Lower Canadian environment.

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