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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 136: Confusion and Uncertainty

The Nations of Canada ·

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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38:28

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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39:40

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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35:57

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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36:19

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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42:36

Episode 130: Cultural Preservation

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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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39:52

Episode 129: The Great Miramachi Fire

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2023/02/15

Lumber overtakes fur as British North America's primary export. The forests of New Brunswick offer the greatest rewards in the new industry, but also the gravest dangers.

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52:05

Episode 128: If Such a Passage Does Exist

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2023/02/08

Looking for something to do after the Napoleonic Wars, the officers of the Royal Navy seek out a new challenge in the arctic.

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36:06

Episode 127: The Merger

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2023/02/01

The fur wars finally come to an end, and for the first time, a single company holds an uncontested monopoly in the northwest.

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48:56

Episode 126: The Dirty Ways of Little York

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2023/01/25

An English statistician visits Upper Canada, and sparks a political reform movement that would last generations.

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35:14

Episode 125: A Despised and Insulted People

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2023/01/18

The whipping of two impoverished fishermen galvanizes popular opposition to the Royal Navy's rule over Newfoundland. The result is the first reform legislation in more than a century.

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35:35

Episode 124: The Year Without Summer

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2023/01/11

The end of the War of 1812 brings new waves of settlers across the Atlantic, where they face a climate anomaly unlike anything seen in living memory.

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36:24

Episode 123: Opposed Abused and Cheated

The Nations of Canada ·

2023/01/04

The Royal Navy's emancipation policy produces a post-war migration of escaped slaves to Nova Scotia. The new arrivals find the colony just as inhospitable as the Black Loyalists had a generation earlier.

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37:22

Episode 122: The Battle of Seven Oaks

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2022/12/28

With pitched battles, foreign mercenaries, and mass arrests, the fur trade reaches a state of conflict not seen since the Beaver Wars of the 17th century.

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32:49

Episode 121: The Red River Colony

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2022/12/21

The rivalry between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company reaches new heights, as the HBC plants a colony right in the middle of the NWC supply network.

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38:36

Episode 120: Peace

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2022/12/14

After failing to achieve much of anything on the battlefield, Britain and the United States bring their costly misadventure to an end at the negotiating table.

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42:01

Episode 119: Breaking the Stalemate

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2022/12/07

In 1814, as political pressure to end the war builds in both the United States and Britain, each side makes one last bid to end the stalemate on the battlefield.

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53:14

Episode 118: The King of the Woods

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2022/11/30

The second half of 1813 sees the two most important battles of the war, from the perspective of Canadian history. Not coincidentally, British soldiers play a marginal role in the fighting.

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50:52

Episode 117: A Favourable Moment

The Nations of Canada ·

2022/11/23

1813 brings another invasion of Upper Canada, this time threatening to cut the colony in two.

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